Pulmonary emphysema
PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER CARDIORESPIRATORY LESIONS AS PART OF THE MARFAN ABIOTROPHY
... the aortic media and mitral valve.. Section of lung from an 11-week-old infant with the Marfan syn- drome. There is striking evidence of chronic pulmonary emphysema in this infant,. char[r] ...
13
Loss of skin elasticity is associated with pulmonary emphysema, biomarkers of inflammation, and matrix metalloproteinase activity in smokers
... Mutations in the promoter variants for MMP-1 and MMP-3 represent genetic susceptibility risk factors for an association between facial wrinkling and air- flow obstruction [47]. Indicative of shared systems biology, it is ...
11
Role of apoptosis in the pathogenesis of COPD and pulmonary emphysema
... cause pulmonary emphysema, even without the accumulation of inflam- matory ...studies, emphysema was induced by directly targeting the alveolar cells [44], or by inactivating VEGFR [45-47] or VEGF ...
10
Ceramides: a potential therapeutic target in pulmonary emphysema
... Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a common and increasing source of morbidity and mortal- ity in the developed world [1] and is associated with a large cost burden ...[2]. Pulmonary emphysema, ...
12
Exercise intolerance and systemic manifestations of pulmonary emphysema in a mouse model
... cle, pulmonary function and pulmonary hypertension ...that emphysema causes skeletal muscle dysfunction but no effect on activity was noted ...an emphysema model. We aimed to develop a murine ...
10
Toll like receptor 4 deficiency causes pulmonary emphysema
... with emphysema, resulting in cell injury and/or death, mucus hypersecretion, antiprotease inac- tivation, and lung inflammation through activation of redox-sen- sitive transcription factors (4, ...smoke–induced ...
11
PULMONARY TRANSCAPILLARY EXCHANGE OF Na24 AND P32 LABELED PHOSPHATE IN PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA
... The pulmonary transcapillary exchange of Na24 and P32-labeled phosphate was determined in 17 control subjects and in 13 patients with pulmonary emphysema.. Exchange of both ions is marke[r] ...
6
Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency as a common treatable mechanism in chronic respiratory disorders and for conditions different from pulmonary emphysema? A commentary on the new European Respiratory Society statement
... NTM pulmonary disease is different among patients and AATD has been postulated as a po- tential predisposing ...NTM pulmonary disease, AAT genetic variants were reported in 27% of cases, which is ...
10
Unicentric study of cell therapy in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/pulmonary emphysema
... This study was carried out at the Cardiovascular Diseases Institute in São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil, from May 2009 to October 2009. Four patients (as approved by the Brazilian National Committee of Ethics in ...
9
STUDIES OF THE VENTILATION PERFUSION RELATIONSHIPS IN THE LUNGS OF SUBJECTS WITH CHRONIC PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA, FOLLOWING A SINGLE INTRAVENOUS INJECTION OF RADIOACTIVE KRYPTON (Kr85) I PRESENTATION AND VALIDATION OF A THEORETICAL MODEL
... In an attempt to establish the ventilationperfusion relationship in the different lung compartments of patients suffering from pulmonary emphysema, Briscoe 4, 5 correlated the ventilatio[r] ...
12
THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE LUNG IN CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA
... The total work of breathing was far greater than the normal in the emphysematous patients and still greater in the group who had developed right heart failure, this increase being partic[r] ...
12
STUDIES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION I PULMONARY CIRCULATORY DYNAMICS IN PATIENTS WITH PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA AT REST
... Our patients with chronic pulmonary disease showed a significant negative correlation between the degree of pulmonary hypertension and the oxygen saturation of the arterial blood.. This [r] ...
9
The Challenge of Pulmonary Emphysema
... When these holes collapse, they approximate; the alveoli in between are normal, and the pathologist, by allowing the lung to collapse, has put himself in the wor[r] ...
8
Disturbance of the OPG/RANK/RANKL pathway and systemic inflammation in COPD patients with emphysema and osteoporosis
... The percentage of LAA (LAA%) was measured auto- matically using specified software in the Extended Brilli- ance Workspace to quantitatively evaluate pulmonary emphysema. All CT images from the upper margin ...
8
The impact of emphysema in pulmonary fibrosis
... idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) coexists with pulmonary ...combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema (CPFE) is characterised by upper lobe emphysema and lower lobe ...associated ...
5
Comparison of lung capacity change in elderly women
... improve pulmonary function in the ...improving pulmonary function on patients who have COPD (such as chronic bronchial trouble and pulmonary emphysema), research has demonstrated how exercise ...
7
Cascaded techniques for improving emphysema classification in computed tomography images
... The previous studies demonstrated the effectiveness of the multi-fractal based method for the classification of histo-pathological cases by calculating the local singularity coefficients of an image using different ...
7
Hereditary alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency and its clinical consequences
... as pulmonary emphysema, liver cirrhosis and, rarely, as the skin disease panniculitis, and is characterized by low serum levels of AAT, the main protease inhibitor (PI) in human ...onset emphysema, ...
9
Thin-section computed tomography-determined usual interstitial pneumonia pattern affects the decision-making process for resection in newly diagnosed lung cancer patients: a retrospective study
... of pulmonary emphysema and/or fibrosis ...combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema (CPFE) yielded worse postoperative and survival outcomes in patients with resected lung cancer, less than ...
9
Pneumomediastinum following a prolonged second stage of labor – an emphasis on early diagnosis and conservative management: a case report
... tomography pulmonary angiogram confirmed surgical emphysema and pneumomediastinum, and a diagnosis of esophageal rupture was made based on these ...surgical emphysema was demonstrated on serial chest ...
5