Radiation Pneumonitis
Simultaneous bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax and radiation pneumonitis following thoracic radiotherapy for the treatment of high grade follicular lymphoma
... He received intensive chemotherapy comprising of rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisolone (r-cHOP) and intrathecal methotrexate. He received consolidation radiotherapy totalling 30Gy over 15 ...
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Original Article Effect of transforming growth factor-β1 869C/T polymorphism and radiation pneumonitis
... Radiation pneumonitis (RP) is the one of the most significant complications of acute treat- ment-related toxicities in lung cancer and other ...through radiation therapy for ...
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18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography may not visualize radiation pneumonitis
... sing radiation-induced lung inflammation [16, ...of radiation pneumonitis in both lung cancer and esophageal cancer [34, ...and radiation pneumonitis ...of radiation ...
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<p>Diabetes mellitus is a predictive factor for radiation pneumonitis after thoracic radiotherapy in patients with lung cancer</p>
... Binary logistic regression analysis was used to identify signi fi cant predictive factors for the development of grade ≥ 3 radiation pneumonitis. Because of the close association among the RT dosimetric ...
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Original Article ERCC5 single nucleotide polymorphism (rs2296147) predicts the risk of acute radiation pneumonitis in lung cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy
... 2]. Radiation therapy is one of the main treatment modalities for lung can- ...cer. Radiation pneumonitis (RP) is the most common dose-limiting factor in patients with lung cancer receiving chest ...
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<p>Distinguishing Radiation Pneumonitis from Local Tumour Recurrence Following SBRT for Lung Cancer</p>
... predicting radiation pneumonitis after conventional radiotherapy is well investigated, 71 and PET/CT might be useful for response assessment following SBRT, but some limitations must be ...to ...
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Predictors of Radiation Pneumonitis in Patients with Lung Cancer after Chemoradiotherapy
... the radiation field, plus that radiographic examination of the thorax before showed no radiation ...1 pneumonitis was asymptomatic and diagnosed by radiographic findings only; Grade 2 ...
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Preliminary analysis of the risk factors for radiation pneumonitis in patients with non- small-cell lung cancer treated with concurrent erlotinib and thoracic radiotherapy
... affects radiation pneumonitis. The radiation field is usually larger in patients with a higher PTV ...of radiation to which the lung is ...with radiation pneumonitis and patients ...
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Radiation pneumonitis in mice Some effects of corticosteroids on mortality and pulmonary physiology
... The fall in pulmonary compliance in mice with radiation pneumonitis is associated with increased microvascular leakage of plasma proteins into the alveolar spaces and increased surfactan[r] ...
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Patient and treatment related factors responsible for radiation pneumonitis in postmastectomy radiation and the impact of supraclavicular radiation
... wall radiation along with internal mammary, infra-clavicular and supraclavicular nodal ...regional radiation and the impact of regional nodal irradiation especially supraclavicular radiation and its ...
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A systemic administration of liposomal curcumin inhibits radiation pneumonitis and sensitizes lung carcinoma to radiation
... radiotherapy. Radiation pneumonitis (RP), which represents the acute phase of radiation-induced lung injury, is the major dose-limiting toxicity in radiotherapy for thoracic ...
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<p>Dynamic changes in T-cell subsets and C-reactive protein after radiation therapy in lung cancer patients and correlation with symptomatic radiation pneumonitis treated with steroid therapy</p>
... that radiation can induce accumulation of activated T cells in the lung in patients with lung ...the radiation group than that in the nonradiation ...
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Abnormal pulmonary function tests predict the development of radiation-induced pneumonitis in advanced non-small cell lung Cancer
... to radiation frequently induces pulmonary toxicity, which can present as pneumonitis in a range from 15% and even up to 58% of the patients who re- ceive radiotherapy, affecting quality of life (QoL) and ...
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Pneumonitis resulting from radiation and immune checkpoint blockade illustrates characteristic clinical, radiologic and circulating biomarker features
... of pneumonitis that devel- oped in a patient with metastatic melanoma that developed following adjuvant axillary radiation that overlapped a por- tion of the right lung while the patient was treated with ...
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Pathogenesis of an experimental model of Goodpasture's hemorrhagic pneumonitis
... polymorphonuclear leukocytes were constantly observed. ABM Ab and IL-2 or ABM Ab and IFN-alpha did not produce comparable effects. Mice injected only with IL-2 and IFN-alpha had enlarged, edematous lungs without ...
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Hypersensitivity pneumonitis: a complex lung disease
... Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP), also called extrinsic allergic alveolitis, is a respiratory syndrome involving the lung parenchyma and specifically the alveoli, terminal bronchioli, and alveolar interstitium, ...
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Identifying causation in hypersensitivity pneumonitis: a British perspective
... There was a high level of consensus agree- ment among participants that identifying exposure to a known cause of HP is important, both for the assessment of patients with unexplained I[r] ...
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Comorbidities and survival in patients with chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis
... The following comorbidities were assessed: Asthma, pulmonary hypertension, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diastolic dysfunction, hypertensio[r] ...
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Lymphangiogenic factors are associated with the severity of hypersensitivity pneumonitis
... No information is available regarding the involvement of lymphatic VEGFs in HP. In this study, the BALF VEGF-D levels were elevated in patients with HP compared to the other groups (ie, healthy controls and patients with ...
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Interstitial pneumonitis following intrapleural chemotherapy
... tial pneumonitis that occurred 37 days after intraperito- neal hyperthermic mitomycin C given at a dose of 50 mg ...interstitial pneumonitis they documented was the only case encountered in more than 150 ...
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