Obstructive lung diseases
Prevalence and associated factors of steroid induced impaired glucose metabolism in obstructive lung diseases, Jimma, and Southwest Ethiopia, Africa
... with Obstructive lung ...in Obstructive lung diseases at Jimma University Specialized Hospital chest clinic from November 2014 to July ...
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Computational modeling of the obstructive lung diseases asthma and COPD
... of obstructive lung diseases are largely based on global lung measure- ments from pulmonary function tests ...global lung function and cannot detect the regional functional changes ...
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Assessment of Prescribing Pattern of Drugs in the Management of Obstructive Lung Diseases and Respiratory Tract Infections
... of obstructive lung diseases and respiratory infections was more common in males when compared to ...years. Obstructive Lung diseases are more prominent in smokers when compared ...
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<p>Inhaled Corticosteroids And Risk Of Tuberculosis In Patients With Obstructive Lung Diseases: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis Of Non-randomized Studies</p>
... Methods: The review was registered on PROSPERO (CRD42018095874). PubMed, CENTRAL, Scopus and Web of Science were searched from inception to September 2018. Papers reporting cases of incident TB in patients with ...
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Outcome measures for airway clearance techniques in children with chronic obstructive lung diseases: a systematic review
... In general, this review summarizes a heterogeneous group of studies performed over several decades. There was a wide variety in the application of certain outcome measures, study designs, types of therapy, etc. Overall, ...
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Obstructive lung diseases and inhaler treatment: results from a national public pragmatic survey
... Results: Awareness of obstructive lung diseases is poor. Asthma, but not COPD, was perceived as a common and increasingly prevalent disease by the majority of the interviewees. Allergy, pollution and ...
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Developing Customized Evaluation Software for Clinical Trials: An Example with Obstructive Lung Diseases
... chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cystic fibrosis (CF), or asthma were included in the clinical ...total lung capacity, followed by standard forced full expiration maneuver and at the end back ...
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Correlation of the Ratio of Upper Third to Lower Third Circumferences of the Chest with Obstructive Pattern in Spirometry
... Chest radiography is a simply available procedure, which can show hyperinflation of the lungs by flattened diaphragms, increased retrosternal space and widening of the upper part of the thoracic cage (8). There are many ...
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Peak inspiratory flow rate measurement by using In-Check DIAL for the different inhaler devices in elderly with obstructive airway diseases
... Lower peak inspiratory flow generated during Turbuhaler was noted in patients with obstructive lung diseases who were older than 60 years, compared to the younger patients. No difference in PIFR ...
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Pulmonary Function Abnormalities in Symptom-free Children After Bronchiolitis
... Disease of the small airways is thought to be common to various chronic obstructive lung diseases in adulthood, and there is evidence that these airways are the site of the earliest chan[r] ...
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Sensors for detecting pulmonary diseases from exhaled breath
... respiratory diseases is based on volatile organic compounds (VOCs), ...other diseases. The monitoring of respiratory diseases by breath analysis is noninvasive and breath sampling can be carried out ...
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Chronic obstructive lung disease and posttraumatic stress disorder: current perspectives
... This structured review began with an initial literature search performed by a health sciences librarian (AB) using several indexed databases: MEDLINE through Ovid, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews through Wiley, ...
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Management of acute respiratory failure in interstitial lung diseases: overview and clinical insights
... ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) [54, 85], and, subsequently, the high mortality rate of ILD patients in the ICU ...is lung transplant [89], and the decision to proceed to intensive life support ...
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Assessment of regional pulmonary blood flow using 68Ga-DOTA PET
... tion, which represents a mean value across the entire re- spiratory cycle. However, mainly due to the volume and pressure changes within the lungs during the respiration, it is reasonable to expect that the local ...
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<p>Quantitative CT Analysis in Patients with Pulmonary Emphysema: Do Calculated Differences Between Full Inspiration and Expiration Correlate with Lung Function?</p>
... standard (soft) kernel). All patients were thoroughly coa- ched in breathing techniques prior to the CT scan. Quantitative analysis of chest CT scans was performed using the MeVis PULMO3D software (v3.7.1, Fraunhofer ...
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... There are about 7000 known chemicals in cigarette smoke and about 69 of them are causing cancer (American Lung Association, 2018). Tissues of children are under developing stage, these tissues include respiratory ...
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In search of markers of treatment failure and poor prognosis in IPAH - the value of mosaic lung attenuation pattern on thin-section CT scans
... Resten et al. [31] analyzed HRCT in 12 IPAH patients with epoprostenol therapy failure (group 1) and compared them to 61 patients who improved during such therapy (group 2). Frequency of ground-glass opacities in groups ...
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Quantitative Analysis of Thoracic Computed Tomography Images
... outcomes vary between the groups [1, 78, 77]. Subgroup 1 had a mean volume change between inspiration and expiration (((TSLVi-TSLVe)/TSLVi) x 100%) of 28.59% + 10.06% compared to 17.98% + 9.35% for subgroup 2, noting ...
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Fibulin-1 regulates the pathogenesis of tissue remodeling in respiratory diseases
... whole lung tissues assessed by immunoblot (left), and fold change of densitometry normalized to β-actin ...mouse lung sections stained with Verhoeff’s-Van Gieson (VVG, left; scale bar: 50 μm; inserts show ...
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Comorbidities in interstitial lung diseases
... infection is not present [17], and may be a frequent occult trigger of AEIPF [18, 19]. There is a higher incidence of AEIPF during winter and spring months, coinciding with a higher prevalence of acute infection [20, ...
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