CC chemokine receptor gene polymorphisms in Czech patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis.

abstract：RATIONALE:The vast majority of children around the world undergoing adenotonsillectomy for obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSA) are not objectively diagnosed by nocturnal polysomnography because of access availability and cost issues. Automated analysis of nocturnal oximetry (nSpO2), which is readily and glo...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Hornero R,Kheirandish-Gozal L,Gutiérrez-Tobal GC,Philby MF,Alonso-Álvarez ML,Álvarez D,Dayyat EA,Xu Z,Huang YS,Tamae Kakazu M,Li AM,Van Eyck A,Brockmann PE,Ehsan Z,Simakajornboon N,Kaditis AG,Vaquerizo-Villar F,Crespo S

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The present studies were designed to assess the pattern of activity and the frequency of activation of the neck muscles in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Using concentric needle electrodes, we thus recorded the electromyograms of the scalene, sternocleidomastoid, and trapezius muscles duri...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： De Troyer A,Peche R,Yernault JC,Estenne M

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cells and proteases that mediate cigarette smoke-induced emphysema are controversial, with evidence favoring either neutrophils and neutrophil-derived serine proteases or macrophages and macrophage-derived metalloproteases as the important effectors. We recently reported that both macrophage metalloelastase (MMP-1...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Churg A,Wang RD,Tai H,Wang X,Xie C,Dai J,Shapiro SD,Wright JL

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is known to play an important role in airway homeostasis. For this reason its levels and thus its synthesis and consumption are important mechanisms for controlling airway functions. We have identified the major macromolecular consumer of H2O2 in sheep airway secretions to be lactoperoxidase (...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Conner GE,Salathe M,Forteza R

更新日期：2002-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of sensitization to inhaled allergens is determined by the interaction of multiple genetic and environmental influences. Occupational sensitization to low-molecular-weight chemicals allows a specific immunological response to an inhaled hapten to be studied in a well-defined population with characteriz...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Newman Taylor AJ,Cullinan P,Lympany PA,Harris JM,Dowdeswell RJ,du Bois RM

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the effect of smoking cessation on the airway inflammatory process present in nonatopic subjects with chronic bronchitis, we obtained bronchial biopsies from nine current smokers and seven exsmokers, all with symptoms of chronic bronchitis at the time of the study, and from seven healthy nonsmoking subj...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Turato G,Di Stefano A,Maestrelli P,Mapp CE,Ruggieri MP,Roggeri A,Fabbri LM,Saetta M

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrosing alveolitis in systemic sclerosis is histologically identical to lone cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (CFA) (idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis). The inflammatory cell content of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) samples has been used as a guide to prognosis and treatment in CFA. In this study, the relationship was ex...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Wells AU,Hansell DM,Rubens MB,Cullinan P,Haslam PL,Black CM,Du Bois RM

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Identification of patients with drug-resistant pathogens at initial diagnosis is essential for treatment of pneumonia. OBJECTIVES:To elucidate clinical features of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and healthcare-associated pneumonia (HCAP), and to clarify risk factors for drug-resistant pathogens in patien...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Shindo Y,Ito R,Kobayashi D,Ando M,Ichikawa M,Shiraki A,Goto Y,Fukui Y,Iwaki M,Okumura J,Yamaguchi I,Yagi T,Tanikawa Y,Sugino Y,Shindoh J,Ogasawara T,Nomura F,Saka H,Yamamoto M,Taniguchi H,Suzuki R,Saito H,Kawa

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Several modalities of ventilatory support have been proposed to gradually withdraw patients from mechanical ventilation, but their respective effects on the outcome of weaning from mechanical ventilation are not known. We conducted a randomized trial in three intensive care units in mechanically ventilated patients wh...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Brochard L,Rauss A,Benito S,Conti G,Mancebo J,Rekik N,Gasparetto A,Lemaire F

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumonectomized rats develop pulmonary hypertension (PH) and pulmonary vascular neointimal formation 4 wk after monocrotaline (MCT) administration. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were injected with MCT (60 mg/kg) on Day 7 after left pneumonectomy. Three groups (n = 5) received 40-O-(2-hydroxyethyl)-rapamycin (RAD, 2.5 mg/k...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Nishimura T,Faul JL,Berry GJ,Veve I,Pearl RG,Kao PN

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the influence of pulmonary bacteriology and histology on the yield of diagnostic procedures in a clinically relevant model of ventilator-acquired pneumonia (VAP). Twenty-seven piglets entered a 4-d protocol of ventilatory support under general anesthesia. Endotracheal aspirates (EA), protected specimen...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Wermert D,Marquette CH,Copin MC,Wallet F,Fraticelli A,Ramon P,Tonnel AB

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental and epidemiological evidence supports the hypothesis that exposure to mycobacteria has the potential to suppress the development of asthma and/or atopy and there are reports in the Chinese medical literature of repeated vaccination with inactivated BCG being effective in the management of asthma. Forty-th...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Shirtcliffe PM,Easthope SE,Cheng S,Weatherall M,Tan PL,Le Gros G,Beasley R

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospective studies have suggested that combination antibiotic therapy for severe bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia may reduce mortality. We assessed this issue in a prospective, multicenter, international observational study of 844 adult patients with bacteremia due to Streptococcus pneumoniae. The effect of combin...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Baddour LM,Yu VL,Klugman KP,Feldman C,Ortqvist A,Rello J,Morris AJ,Luna CM,Snydman DR,Ko WC,Chedid MB,Hui DS,Andremont A,Chiou CC,International Pneumococcal Study Group.

更新日期：2004-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Tidal volume and plateau pressure limitation decreases mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome. Computed tomography demonstrated a small, normally aerated compartment on the top of poorly aerated and nonaerated compartments that may be hyperinflated by tidal inflation. OBJECTIVES:We hypothesized tha...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Terragni PP,Rosboch G,Tealdi A,Corno E,Menaldo E,Davini O,Gandini G,Herrmann P,Mascia L,Quintel M,Slutsky AS,Gattinoni L,Ranieri VM

更新日期：2007-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Pulmonary infection in cystic fibrosis (CF) is polymicrobial and it is possible that anaerobic bacteria, not detected by routine aerobic culture methods, reside within infected anaerobic airway mucus. OBJECTIVES:To determine whether anaerobic bacteria are present in the sputum of patients with CF. METHODS:S...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Tunney MM,Field TR,Moriarty TF,Patrick S,Doering G,Muhlebach MS,Wolfgang MC,Boucher R,Gilpin DF,McDowell A,Elborn JS

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Many authors have suggested that the mechanism by which atelectasis contributes to injury is through the repetitive opening and closing of distal airways in lung regions that are atelectatic. However, neither the topographic nor mechanistic relationships between atelectasis and distribution of lung injury are...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Tsuchida S,Engelberts D,Peltekova V,Hopkins N,Frndova H,Babyn P,McKerlie C,Post M,McLoughlin P,Kavanagh BP

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis has been defined as an acute, clinically significant, respiratory deterioration of unidentifiable cause. The objective of this international working group report on acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis was to provide a comprehensive update on the topic...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Collard HR,Ryerson CJ,Corte TJ,Jenkins G,Kondoh Y,Lederer DJ,Lee JS,Maher TM,Wells AU,Antoniou KM,Behr J,Brown KK,Cottin V,Flaherty KR,Fukuoka J,Hansell DM,Johkoh T,Kaminski N,Kim DS,Kolb M,Lynch DA,Myers JL,R

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Bronchial remodeling, including increased bronchial smooth muscle (BSM) mass, contributes to bronchial obstruction in asthma. However, its mechanisms are complex and remain controversial. Recently, a role of the chitinase 3-like 1 protein (YKL-40) has been evoked in asthma. Indeed, YKL-40 concentration was in...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Bara I,Ozier A,Girodet PO,Carvalho G,Cattiaux J,Begueret H,Thumerel M,Ousova O,Kolbeck R,Coyle AJ,Woods J,Tunon de Lara JM,Marthan R,Berger P

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Airways obstruction with thick, adherent mucus is a pathophysiologic and clinical feature of muco-obstructive respiratory diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, and cystic fibrosis (CF). Mucins, the dominant biopolymer in mucus, organize into complex polymeric networks via the form...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Ehre C,Rushton ZL,Wang B,Hothem LN,Morrison CB,Fontana NC,Markovetz MR,Delion MF,Kato T,Villalon D,Thelin WR,Esther CR Jr,Hill DB,Grubb BR,Livraghi-Butrico A,Donaldson SH,Boucher RC

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the influence of the cytokine tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha), an important mediator of sepsis, on in vitro hamster diaphragm contractility. Costal diaphragm strips were excised and mounted on an experimental apparatus consisting of a force transducer and servomotor. Preparations were rand...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Wilcox P,Milliken C,Bressler B

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Acute respiratory distress syndrome is refractory to pharmacological intervention. Inappropriate activation of alveolar neutrophils is believed to underpin this disease's complex pathophysiology, yet these cells have been little studied. OBJECTIVES:To examine the functional and transcriptional profiles of pa...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Juss JK,House D,Amour A,Begg M,Herre J,Storisteanu DM,Hoenderdos K,Bradley G,Lennon M,Summers C,Hessel EM,Condliffe A,Chilvers ER

更新日期：2016-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The effects of high positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) strictly depend on lung recruitability, which varies widely during acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Unfortunately, increasing PEEP may lead to opposing effects on two main factors potentially worsening the lung injury, that is, alveolar st...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Caironi P,Cressoni M,Chiumello D,Ranieri M,Quintel M,Russo SG,Cornejo R,Bugedo G,Carlesso E,Russo R,Caspani L,Gattinoni L

更新日期：2010-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Arousal is believed to be needed for upper airway opening in obstructive hypopneas-apneas, without compelling evidence to support this notion. The association may be incidental. I studied the temporal relation between arousal and opening and impact of arousal on flow response at opening in 82 patients (apnea-hypopnea ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Younes M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Clinical benefits of fixed-dose 100-mg subcutaneous (SC) mepolizumab in prednisone-dependent patients are modest when sputum eosinophilia is not adequately controlled. OBJECTIVES:This study compared treatment response of weight-adjusted intravenous (IV) reslizumab in patients previously treated with 100-mg S...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Mukherjee M,Aleman Paramo F,Kjarsgaard M,Salter B,Nair G,LaVigne N,Radford K,Sehmi R,Nair P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Observational studies link statin therapy with improved outcomes in patients with severe sepsis. OBJECTIVES:To test whether atorvastatin therapy affects biologic and clinical outcomes in critically ill patients with severe sepsis. METHODS:Phase II, multicenter, prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kruger P,Bailey M,Bellomo R,Cooper DJ,Harward M,Higgins A,Howe B,Jones D,Joyce C,Kostner K,McNeil J,Nichol A,Roberts MS,Syres G,Venkatesh B,ANZ-STATInS Investigators–ANZICS Clinical Trials Group.

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethane is a product of lipid peroxidation as a result of oxidative stress and can be detected in the exhaled air. Oxidative stress plays a role in the pathogenesis of asthma. We measured exhaled ethane in 26 asthmatic subjects (mean age +/- SEM, 38 +/- 8 yr; 15 male, FEV(1) 60 +/- 4%) and compared it with exhaled nitr...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Paredi P,Kharitonov SA,Barnes PJ

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Data on hemoptysis of unknown origin (i.e., "cryptogenic") are scarce and the outcome of patients affected is controversial. OBJECTIVES:To describe the clinical spectrum and course of patients with cryptogenic hemoptysis, as well as pathologic findings when surgery is performed. METHODS:A cohort of 81 patie...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Savale L,Parrot A,Khalil A,Antoine M,Théodore J,Carette MF,Mayaud C,Fartoukh M

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus has been inconsistently associated with a reduced level of pulmonary function. To elucidate this association further, we analyzed the relationship of diabetes and of fasting blood glucose to the level of pulmonary function assessed by spirometry in the 3,254 members of the Framingham Offspring Cohort...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Walter RE,Beiser A,Givelber RJ,O'Connor GT,Gottlieb DJ

更新日期：2003-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The influx of neutrophils into the lung is a sentinel event in LPS-induced acute lung inflammation. Previous studies have shown that systemic inhibition of p38 decreases LPS-induced neutrophil influx into the alveolar space but has no effect on pulmonary parenchymal neutrophil accumulation or on microvascular leak, in...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Arndt PG,Young SK,Lieber JG,Fessler MB,Nick JA,Worthen GS

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is controversial whether obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) causes pulmonary hypertension (PH) in the absence of hypoxemic lung disease. To investigate this further we measured awake pulmonary hemodynamics, pulmonary gas exchange, and small airways function in 32 patients with OSA (apnea- hypopnea index, mean +/- SE, 46...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Sajkov D,Wang T,Saunders NA,Bune AJ,Neill AM,Douglas Mcevoy R

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00