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Associations of pulmonary microvascular blood volume with per cent emphysema and CT emphysema subtypes in the community: the MESA Lung study
Background Pulmonary microvasculature alterations are implicated in emphysema pathogenesis, but the association between ...
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Sleep disordered breathing and pregnancy
1 David Read Laboratory, Department of Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia Correspondence to: Dr ...
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Serum carotenoids, vitamins A and E, and 8 year lung function decline in a general population
Background: Oxidative stress is thought to have a major role in the pathogenesis of airway obstruction. A study was undertaken to determine whether subjects with low levels of antioxidants (serum ...
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Cost effectiveness of an outpatient multidisciplinary pulmonary rehabilitation programme
BACKGROUND Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes improve the health of patients disabled by lung disease but their cost effectiveness is unproved. We undertook a cost/utility analysis in conjunction ...
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Management of malignant pleural effusions
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M11 The use of asthma care bundle proformas can improve quality of care in acute asthma admissions
Introduction Despite the introduction of dedicated asthma services and targeted therapies, asthma exacerbations remain a common cause of hospital admission with significant utilisation of health care ...
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Highly discordant T cell responses in individuals with recent exposure to household tuberculosis
DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, ...
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Tension pneumothorax complicating autologous “blood patch” pleurodesis
Autologous “blood patching” has been used successfully for the treatment of persistent air leak in patients with spontaneous secondary pneumothorax. The case history is presented of a 19 year old ...
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The effect of acute morphine on obstructive sleep apnoea: a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled crossover trial
Objective Anaesthesiology guidelines suggest that opioids worsen obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) despite no randomised controlled trial evidence. We therefore conducted a randomised controlled trial to ...
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Development of the bronchial epithelial reticular basement membrane: relationship to epithelial height and age
Background The bronchial epithelium and underlying reticular basement membrane (RBM) have a close spatial and functional inter-relationship and are considered an epithelial–mesenchymal trophic unit ...
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Untargeted Molecular Analysis of Exhaled Breath as a Diagnostic Test for Ventilator-Associated Lower Respiratory Tract Infections (BreathDx)
Correspondence to Dr Lieuwe D Bos, Intensive Care, Amsterdam UMC Location AMC, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands; l.d.bos{at}amc.uva.nl Patients suspected of ventilator-associated lower respiratory ...
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Expression of protease activated receptor-2 (PAR-2) in central airways of smokers and non-smokers
8 Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Section of Occupational Medicine, University of Padova, Italy 9 Departments of Medicine, Oncology and Radiology, Section of Respiratory ...