Differential gene expression in gram-negative and gram-positive sepsis.

abstract：:In this case-control family study of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), we describe the distributions of SDB and SDB risk factors in African-Americans and Caucasians. A total of 225 African-Americans and 622 Caucasians, ages 2 to 86 yr, recruited as members of families with an individual with known sleep apnea (85 inde...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Redline S,Tishler PV,Hans MG,Tosteson TD,Strohl KP,Spry K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stimuli controlling pharyngeal dilator muscles are poorly defined. Local mechanoreceptors are a leading possibility. To address this, we assessed the relationship between two dilator muscle electromyograms (EMGs, i.e., genioglossus [GG-an inspiratory phasic muscle], tensor palatini [TP-a tonically active muscle]) ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Malhotra A,Pillar G,Fogel RB,Beauregard J,Edwards JK,Slamowitz DI,Shea SA,White DP

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: The management of indeterminate pulmonary nodules (IPNs) remains challenging, resulting in invasive procedures and delays in diagnosis and treatment. Strategies to decrease the rate of unnecessary invasive procedures and optimize surveillance regimens are needed.Objectives: To develop and validate a deep le...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Massion PP,Antic S,Ather S,Arteta C,Brabec J,Chen H,Declerck J,Dufek D,Hickes W,Kadir T,Kunst J,Landman BA,Munden RF,Novotny P,Peschl H,Pickup LC,Santos C,Smith GT,Talwar A,Gleeson F

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Although the transplantation of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cells harbors enormous potential for the treatment of pulmonary diseases, in vivo data demonstrating clear therapeutic benefits of human iPSC-derived cells in lung disease models are missing. OBJECTIVES:We have tested the therapeuti...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Happle C,Lachmann N,Ackermann M,Mirenska A,Göhring G,Thomay K,Mucci A,Hetzel M,Glomb T,Suzuki T,Chalk C,Glage S,Dittrich-Breiholz O,Trapnell B,Moritz T,Hansen G

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclophosphamide-induced lung toxicity may be difficult to recognize because of the presence of confounding variables such as concomitant use of other cytotoxic drugs, opportunistic infections, diffuse pulmonary malignancy, radiation pneumonitis, and oxygen toxicity. The purpose of this retrospective analysis was to i...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Malik SW,Myers JL,DeRemee RA,Specks U

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a dental appliance (DA) is usually evaluated in a single mandibular position reached after several weeks and corresponding to either improvement of symptoms or intolerance to any further advancement. The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility of one-night evaluation of the efficacy of a DA. Th...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Pételle B,Vincent G,Gagnadoux F,Rakotonanahary D,Meyer B,Fleury B

更新日期：2002-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Acute lung injury (ALI) acts as a complex genetic trait, yet its genetic risk factors remain incompletely understood. Large-scale genotyping has not previously been reported for ALI. OBJECTIVES:To identify ALI risk variants after major trauma using a large-scale candidate gene approach. METHODS:We performed...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Meyer NJ,Li M,Feng R,Bradfield J,Gallop R,Bellamy S,Fuchs BD,Lanken PN,Albelda SM,Rushefski M,Aplenc R,Abramova H,Atochina-Vasserman EN,Beers MF,Calfee CS,Cohen MJ,Pittet JF,Christiani DC,O'Keefe GE,Ware LB,May AK

更新日期：2011-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid and selective recruitment of neutrophils into the airspace in response to LPS facilitates the clearance of bacterial pathogens. However, neutrophil infiltration can also participate in the development and progression of environmental airway disease. Previous data have revealed that Toll-like receptor 4 (tlr4) is...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Hollingsworth JW,Chen BJ,Brass DM,Berman K,Gunn MD,Cook DN,Schwartz DA

更新日期：2005-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Sepsis refers to the clinical syndrome of severe systemic inflammation precipitated by infection. Despite appropriate antimicrobial therapy, sepsis-related morbidity and mortality remain intractable problems in critically ill patients. Moreover, there is no specific treatment strategy for the syndrome of seps...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Mei SH,Haitsma JJ,Dos Santos CC,Deng Y,Lai PF,Slutsky AS,Liles WC,Stewart DJ

更新日期：2010-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Historically, infections caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis have been treated simultaneously with isoniazid and rifampin. As a consequence of this combined therapy, strains resistant only to rifampin were rarely recovered. However, recently there has been an increasing number of reports describing HIV-positive patie...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Lutfey M,Della-Latta P,Kapur V,Palumbo LA,Gurner D,Stotzky G,Brudney K,Dobkin J,Moss A,Musser JM,Kreiswirth BN

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) is elevated in human fibrotic lung diseases and in animal models of pulmonary fibrosis, implicating IGF-I in the pathogenesis of fibrotic lung disease. We questioned whether IGF-I protein levels were enhanced in fibroproliferative acute respiratory distress syndrome (FP-ARDS). Seri...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Krein PM,Sabatini PJ,Tinmouth W,Green FH,Winston BW

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Damage to the airway epithelium is one prominent feature of chronic asthma. Corticosteroids induce apoptosis in inflammatory cells, which in part explains their ability to suppress airway inflammation. However, corticosteroid therapy does not necessarily reverse epithelial damage. We hypothesized that corticosteroids ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Dorscheid DR,Wojcik KR,Sun S,Marroquin B,White SR

更新日期：2001-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined if pulmonary peptidoleukotrienes contribute to the pathogenesis of chronic lung disease of extreme prematurity (CLD) by measuring urinary leukotriene E4 (uLTE4). Study patients had a birth weight < 1000 g and were about 28 d old when they were classified as normal control subjects (n = 8) or as having CL...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Davidson D,Drafta D,Wilkens BA

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the last few years, increasing evidence of relative adrenal insufficiency in septic shock evoked a reassessment of hydrocortisone therapy. To evaluate the effects of hydrocortisone on the balance between proinflammatory and antiinflammation, 40 patients with septic shock were randomized in a double-blind crosso...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Keh D,Boehnke T,Weber-Cartens S,Schulz C,Ahlers O,Bercker S,Volk HD,Doecke WD,Falke KJ,Gerlach H

更新日期：2003-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR), the increased sensitivity to a wide variety of stimuli that narrow the airways, is a central abnormality in patients with asthma, and is frequently observed in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In the study of the underlying mechanisms of BHR, various animal mode...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Rabe KF

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been nearly a century since the first suggestion that a soluble factor in plasma or serum might be responsible for the symptoms of allergic disease and asthma, and more than 30 yr since immunoglobulin E (IgE) was identified as the key molecule in mediating what are now described as type 1 hypersensitivity react...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Platts-Mills TA

更新日期：2001-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of a pulmonary nodular lesion in an immunocompetent patient documented at open lung biopsy to be due to Mycobacterium haemophilum. This organism has recently been recognized as a cause of disease in immunocompromised patients, presenting predominantly as skin lesions, arthritis, and rarely pneumonia....

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： White DA,Kiehn TE,Bondoc AY,Massarella SA

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between asthma medication and the perception of asthma symptoms is of interest for daily practice. Poor perception of asthma symptoms might influence patients' health care behavior and subsequently might lead to undertreatment and deterioration of their disease. This study investigated the influence o...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Bijl-Hofland ID,Cloosterman SG,Folgering HT,van den Elshout FJ,van Weel C,van Schayck CP

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D receptor (VDR) polymorphisms have been associated with several immune-related diseases, and VDR and vitamin D itself modulate T cell differentiation. VDR maps to chromosome 12q, near a region commonly linked to asthma. We evaluated VDR as part of a 12q positional candidate survey, and in response to observat...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Raby BA,Lazarus R,Silverman EK,Lake S,Lange C,Wjst M,Weiss ST

更新日期：2004-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:POEMS (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy, and skin changes) syndrome is a rare variant of plasma cell dyscrasia with multiple systemic manifestations. We followed the progress of 20 patients with POEMS syndrome in our institution over a 10-yr period. Pulmonary hypertension (PH) was ob...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Lesprit P,Godeau B,Authier FJ,Soubrier M,Zuber M,Larroche C,Viard JP,Wechsler B,Gherardi R

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels of oleic acid (OA) are elevated in plasma and bronchoalveolar lavage fluids of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). OA is also widely used to provoke edema, by unknown mechanisms, in experimental models of ARDS. We investigated the impact of intravascularly applied OA on epithelial lining f...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Vadász I,Morty RE,Kohstall MG,Olschewski A,Grimminger F,Seeger W,Ghofrani HA

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：:The exact influence of sleep-related breathing disorder (SRBD) on blood pressure control remains unknown. We investigated the influence of different degrees of SRBD on daytime blood pressure and its association to documented hypertension by examining 1,190 consecutive patients referred for diagnosis of SRBD. The proto...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Grote L,Ploch T,Heitmann J,Knaack L,Penzel T,Peter JH

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest that a nitric oxide (NO) deficiency and elevated arginase activity may play a role in the pathogenesis of asthma. Although much attention has been directed toward measurements of exhaled NO in asthma, no studies to date have evaluated levels of plasma arginase or arginine, the substrate for NO p...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Morris CR,Poljakovic M,Lavrisha L,Machado L,Kuypers FA,Morris SM Jr

更新日期：2004-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of sleep-disordered breathing (SOB) to neuropsychological deficits was investigated with cross-sectional data from the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study, a population-based study of the natural history of SDB. A sample of 841 employed men and women ages 30 to 60 yr was studied by overnight polysomnography ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kim HC,Young T,Matthews CG,Weber SM,Woodward AR,Palta M

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (CHP) is caused by an immune response to antigen inhalation and is characterized by variable histopathological and clinical features. A subset of subjects with CHP have usual interstitial pneumonia and appear to be clinically similar to subjects with idiopathic pulmonary...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Furusawa H,Cardwell JH,Okamoto T,Walts AD,Konigsberg IR,Kurche JS,Bang TJ,Schwarz MI,Brown KK,Kropski JA,Rojas M,Cool CD,Lee JS,Wolters PJ,Yang IV,Schwartz DA

更新日期：2020-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term effects of high doses of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) on bone density and metabolism are still uncertain. Fifty-one patients (37 male, 14 female) using beclomethasone or budesonide at a daily dose > 800 microgram/d (high-dose group [Group HD] mean: 983 microgram/d [prescribed dose x estimated compliance]) o...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Boulet LP,Milot J,Gagnon L,Poubelle PE,Brown J

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is a common chronic disease without cure. Our understanding of asthma onset, pathobiology, classification, and management has evolved substantially over the past decade; however, significant asthma-related morbidity and excess healthcare use and costs persist. To address this important clinical condition, the N...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Levy BD,Noel PJ,Freemer MM,Cloutier MM,Georas SN,Jarjour NN,Ober C,Woodruff PG,Barnes KC,Bender BG,Camargo CA Jr,Chupp GL,Denlinger LC,Fahy JV,Fitzpatrick AM,Fuhlbrigge A,Gaston BM,Hartert TV,Kolls JK,Lynch SV,Moo

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study whether the individual inflammatory response to ozone was reproducible, dose-dependent, and time-dependent, we performed two exposures to 250 ppb ozone, one to 125 ppb and one to filtered air, each for 3 h of intermittent exercise and separated by at least 1 wk. Twenty-one healthy and 15 asthmatic subjects pa...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Holz O,Jörres RA,Timm P,Mücke M,Richter K,Koschyk S,Magnussen H

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: Lumacaftor-ivacaftor is a CFTR (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator) modulator combination recently approved for patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) homozygous for the Phe508del mutation.Objectives: To evaluate the safety and effectiveness of lumacaftor-ivacaftor in adolescents (≥12 yr) and a...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Burgel PR,Munck A,Durieu I,Chiron R,Mely L,Prevotat A,Murris-Espin M,Porzio M,Abely M,Reix P,Marguet C,Macey J,Sermet-Gaudelus I,Corvol H,Bui S,Lemonnier L,Dehillotte C,Da Silva J,Paillasseur JL,Hubert D,French Cy

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00