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A Comparative Study of Pulmonary Function Test Abnormalities in Rheumatoid Arthritis treatment Naive Versus Patients on Treatment
... pulmonary fibrosis, survival very similar to what is observed in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis 71.The investigation of choice to detect interstitial pneumonia is HRCT. It is abnormal in upto ...
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Assessment of Pulmonary Function Test in Chronic Smokers
... Ninety percent of non-asthmatic patients with airflow obstruction have COPD. In addition, COPD is characterized by an accelerated decline in spirometric values. The disease progresses slowly and the early signs (e.g. ...
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Pulmonary Function Test Trend in Adult Bronchiolitis Obliterans
... in pulmonary function indices directly proportional to the percent of each index in the baseline PFT was apparent over a 10-yr observation ...for treatment, the pulmonary function of ...
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Serial pulmonary function test abnormality in tuberculous pleural effusion
... Thus, it can be concluded that tuberculous pleural effusion causes a restrictive abnormality and small airway obstruction which showed tendency to improve over six months treatment period. These abnormalities have ...
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Pulmonary function test in patients of type 2 diabetes mellitus
... PFT has assumed a key role in epidemiological studies investigating the incidence, natural history and causality of lung disease. 16 Spirometry is essential for diagnosing respiratory illnesses, assessing their severity, ...
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Pulmonary Function in Primary Pulmonary Hypertension
... of pulmonary hypertension, such as portal hypertension, interstitial lung disease, throm- boembolic, and infectious diseases were excluded by history, physical examination, cardiac catheterization, ventilation/ ...
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Pulmonary Function Test in Type 2 Diabetics and Non-Diabetics: A Comparative study
... Metformin, phenformin and buformin belongs to this group. The later two drugs are withdrawn long back. Metformin is an old, but still the best agent of choice to start with in treatment of type 2 diabetes. Its ...
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Impact of RMT on Pulmonary Function and Vascular Compliance - a Case Report
... Effect of RMT on vascular function Table 1 and figure 1 show that both arterial and peripheral elasticity improved by 10.4% and 86.3%, respectively, in response to the RMT intervention. Data on vascular elasticity ...
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AN OVERVIEW ON SYMPTOMS CAUSES TEST TREATMENT FOR CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE
... Smoking cessation starts with an individual decision to stop smoking that leads to an attempt at quitting. Often several attempts are required before long-term smoking cessation is achieved. 44 Some smokers can ...
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Delay in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis: a report from Afghanistan
... Data were carefully entered and analyzed using STATA version 10 (STATA, Houston, TX, USA). Discrete vari- ables were analyzed using the v 2 test, and continuous variables were analyzed using the t-test or ...
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PULMONARY FUNCTION TESTING
... of pulmonary function benefits many types of patients. Pulmonary disease may frequently be detected by PF tests years before the onset of signs or ...of pulmonary disease helps the ...
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Sexual Function in Patients with PCOS and/or Obesity before and after Metformin Treatment
... non-parametric test, Student’s t-test for two independent samples, Kruskal- Wallis’ non-parametric test for several independent sam- ples, Mann-Whitney’s non-parametric test for two inde- ...
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Spontaneous pulmonary hematoma with diffuse pulmonary ossification requiring emergency treatment: a case report
... Tests performed for markers of infectious diseases, such as serum β-D-glucan, serum aspergillus galactomannan antigen, and serum anti-glycopeptidolipid core im- munoglobulin A antibodies were all negative. A test ...
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Pre- & post- bronchodilator pulmonary function test in Indian females: a survey in and around Jaipur
... Methods: From a random sample of 4,500 adults, subjects were invited into study through a 16 point questionnaire. After inclusion/ exclusion criteria applied to 3,733 total responders, 244 rural and 240 urban healthy ...
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When Pulmonary Function Test is Available, Should we Wait for the COPD Symptoms to Develop?
... Adolescent smokers are more likely to be addicted to nicotine and develop a chronic habit. Chronic smoking has a direct impact on quality of life and life expectancy. Repeated environmental exposure and smoke inhalation ...
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Pulmonary function before and after the Nuss procedure in adolescents with pectus excavatum: correlation with morphological subtypes
... All data are expressed as the mean ± the SD or by the number of patients affected. The categorical variables were analyzed using Fisher’ s exact test. Continuous vari- ables were analyzed using the independent ...
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The role of preoperative pulmonary function tests in the surgical treatment of extremely severe scoliosis
... preoperative pulmonary function, between preoperative abnormal pulmonary func- tion and postoperative pulmonary complications, and be- tween operative approaches and postoperative ...
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Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy after treatment with treprostenil in a chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension patient: a case report
... of pulmonary arteries. Due to clinically evident acute pulmonary embolism episodes being absent in ...tomography pulmonary angiogram is the gold standard test for diagnosing CTEPH and will ...
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Relationships between pulmonary function test parameters and quantitative computed tomography measurements of emphysema in subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
... Emphysema Treatment Trial Study (17) and the Internation- al COPD Genetics Network Study (18) reported weaker associations of some PFT ...Emphysema Treatment Trial and In- ternational COPD Genetics Network, ...
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Pulmonary function test analysis in smokers
... the pulmonary function by recording the volume of air movement into and out of the ...this test, the subject inhales maximally to total lung capacity (TCL) and then exhales as rapidly and forcefully ...
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