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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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Management of malignant pleural effusions
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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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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 ...
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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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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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A structural and metabolic framework for classifying pre-clinical tuberculosis infection phenotypes using 18F-FDG PET-CT: a prospective cohort analysis following M. tuberculosis exposure ...
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Interferon-gamma release assays for tuberculosis screening of healthcare workers: a systematic review
3 Center for Poverty-related Communicable Diseases, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development and Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The ...
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Induction of ferroptosis-like cell death of eosinophils exerts synergistic effects with glucocorticoids in allergic airway inflammation
Introduction Eosinophils are critical in allergic disorders, and promoting eosinophil death effectively attenuates allergic airway inflammation. Ferroptosis is a recently described novel form of cell ...
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COPD exacerbations · 3: Pathophysiology
Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Correspondence to: Dr D E O’Donnell Division of Respiratory and Critical Care ...
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Differential expression of VASP in normal lung tissue and lung adenocarcinomas
1 Department of Thoracic Surgery, School of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey 2 Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey 3 Department of Histology ...
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Effects of fluticasone propionate in COPD patients with bronchial hyperresponsiveness
1 Department of Pulmonary and Intensive Care Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam Correspondence to: ...