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abstract：:One of the most active areas of research in medicine today is stem cell biology. This review introduces the reader to the field of stem cell biology and its therapeutic potential. More importantly, the potential application of stem cell therapy in acute lung injury will be explored. ...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Sanders RC Jr,Slayton WB,Cogle CR,Fisher RC,Scott EW

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Clinical and Functional Translation of CFTR (CFTR2) project presents a novel approach to clinical and functional annotation of mutations identified in disease-causing genes. Phenotype and genotype information on approximately 40,000 cystic fibrosis (CF) patients were collected from registries and large clinics. Th...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Castellani C,CFTR2 team.

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social Robots are used in different contexts and, in healthcare, they are better known as Socially Assistive Robots. In the context of asthma, the use of Socially Assistive Robots has the potential to increase motivation and engagement to treatment. Other positive roles proposed for Socially Assistive Robots are to pr...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Ferrante G,Vitale G,Licari A,Montalbano L,Pilato G,Infantino I,Augello A,La Grutta S

更新日期：2020-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Public awareness of the impact of air quality on health is increasing worldwide. Indoor and outdoor air pollutants impair children's growing lungs, and increase the risk of respiratory infections. In many cities, children face indoor air pollution from fuels used for cooking and heating, as well as outdoor pollution f...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Brugha R,Grigg J

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is common and its prevalence is expected to increase with the current obesity epidemic. If left untreated, it is associated with important morbidity such as growth failure, neurocognitive impairment, systemic and pulmonary hypertension, and endothelial dysfunction. Recent research ...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Tapia IE,Marcus CL

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newborn screening for cystic fibrosis remains controversial because there is still little agreement that prophylactic interventions provide substantial long-term benefits. In such situations, where there are some medical benefits and the costs are not prohibitive, it is important to consider the psychosocial implicati...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Parsons EP,Bradley DM

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing chest wall motion is a basic and vital component in managing the child with respiratory problems, whether these are due to pathology in the lungs, airways, chest wall or muscles. Since the 1960s, clinical assessment has been supplemented with an ever-growing range of technological options for measuring chest...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Seddon P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Foreign body aspiration is a common accident in children and represents an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Diagnosis of this condition demands a high degree of suspicion since physical examination and basic radiology exams have low sensitivity. It is more frequent in children younger than 3 years of age, p...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Lima JA,Fischer GB

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parental smoking has an important impact on asthma and wheezing illnesses in infants and children. In utero exposure is associated with impaired lung growth and wheezing illnesses, particularly in preschool children. Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is associated with increased wheezing illnesses and increased ...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Landau LI

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is reasonable to suggest that Telemedicine could help in the management of chronic diseases by giving patients more flexibility to remain at home with opportunities to forward electronic data to healthcare professionals, reduce hospital emergency attendances and reduce overall costs. The reality, particularly in cy...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Lenney W

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is one of the commonest chronic conditions in children and can occasionally be fatal. Little has changed regarding the risk factors for children dying from asthma in the last 30 years. The majority of deaths from asthma occur in children from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds. These should be prevent...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Herrera AM,Fitzgerald DA

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal disease is relatively rare in cystic fibrosis even though the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) protein is expressed in abundance in the kidney. Aberrant CFTR expression probably explains the subtle abnormalities in renal concentrating and diluting ability described in cystic fibrosis and possibly t...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Stephens SE,Rigden SP

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cough is a common presenting symptom to paediatricians and paediatric respiratory physicians. The causes of chronic cough in childhood are significantly different from those in adults, and a different approach to diagnosis and management is needed. In most cases cause can be identified or a satisfactory label given. T...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Massie J

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamic interaction between the heart and lungs leads to a degree of respiratory co-morbidity including both restrictive and obstructive airway abnormalities, which may be overlooked in children with congenital and acquired heart disease. The improving imaging techniques of the heart, both foetal and post-natal co...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Fitzgerald DA,Sherwood M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The burden of asthma among children is high in Australia compared with many other countries. Recent data show that 14-16% of children report a diagnosis of asthma that remains a problem. Boys, children under the age of 5 years and urban indigenous children experience a greater burden of asthma than other children. Mor...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Poulos LM,Toelle BG,Marks GB

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chylothorax is the accumulation of chyle in the pleural space, as a result of damage to the thoracic duct. Chyle is milky fluid enriched with fat secreted from the intestinal cells and lymphatic fluid. Chylothorax in children, is most commonly seen as a complication of cardiothoracic surgery but may occur in newborns ...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Soto-Martinez M,Massie J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the advent of improved antenatal imaging over the past 10 years, the diagnosis, assessment and management of congenital cystic lung abnormalities have changed. These were once considered the exclusive domain of the surgeon, who had the authority to operate on all congenital cystic lung abnormalities regardless of...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Fitzgerald DA

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a relatively common, profoundly disabling and incurable disease that presents in early childhood with hypotonia, weakness and decreased movement. Without ventilatory support, premature death from respiratory insufficiency is universal in children with spinal muscular atrophy type 1 (SM...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Ryan MM

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the first year of life and particularly the first 6 months autonomic control of the cardio-respiratory system is still undergoing maturation and infants are at risk of cardio-respiratory instability. These instabilities are most marked during sleep, which is important as infants spend the majority of each 24 ho...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Horne RS

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been major advances in the surgery for oesophageal atresia (OA) and tracheo-oesophageal fistula(TOF) with survival now exceeding 90%. The standard open approach to OA and distal TOF has been well described and essentially unchanged for the last 60 years. Improved survival in recent decades is most attributa...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Teague WJ,Karpelowsky J

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are multiple aetiologies for childhood bronchiectasis unrelated to cystic fibrosis. Some of these aetiologies, such as those predisposing to recurrent lung infections, e.g. immunodeficiencies, require treatment of the underlying condition and disease-specific pulmonary pathogens within the airway. Regardless of ...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Redding GJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The range of techniques available to assess respiratory muscles weakness has greatly expanded over recent years. Respiratory muscle tests can be divided into non-invasive tests, such as lung function parameters, maximal static pressures and sniff nasal pressure and invasive tests, such as transdiaphragmatic pressures ...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Fauroux B

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood respiratory diseases are accompanied by various forms of epithelial repair and remodelling. Respiratory stem cells are likely to be of great importance in these processes but their identification remains uncertain. By contrast, an enormous effort has been made to identify specific markers of stem cells of ot...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Emura M

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bronchiolitis is a common disease in infancy, mostly due to Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Rhinovirus. In addition to acute infection, viral bronchiolitis is responsible for sequelae including recurrent wheezing and asthma. The analysis of the viral characteristics and of the pathogenesis of the infection shows diffe...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Vandini S,Calamelli E,Faldella G,Lanari M

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many important respiratory manifestations of endocrine and metabolic diseases in children. Acute and chronic pulmonary infections are the most common respiratory abnormalities in patients with diabetes mellitus, although cardiogenic and non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema are also possible. Pseudohypoaldosteron...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Milla CE,Zirbes J

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) is a selective pulmonary vasodilator. In randomised trials, iNO increased gas exchange modestly and had no effect on the outcome (survival, chronic lung disease, CLD) in very low birth-weight (VLBW) infants. NO is an important component of the innate immune system and a lipid- soluble free r...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Hallman M,Aikio O

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current global strategy for control of tuberculosis, Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course (DOTS) focuses, as a priority, on the management of patients with sputum smear positive tuberculosis. As tuberculosis in children is rarely sputum smear positive, this has led many to believe that children are not import...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Enarson DA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interpretation of the paediatric chest X-ray may appear intimidating at first but knowledge of a few basic rules and an understanding of how the radiographic appearance may be influenced by age and technique will help the clinician arrive at the correct diagnosis in many cases. A structured and logical approach to X-r...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Arthur R

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a patient whose decline over two years was precipitous, from an active independent life with lung function (FEV1) above 50% to requiring transplantation. The main pathogen on sputum culture throughout that period was Scediosporium apiosperum. The epidemiology pathogenicity and treatment of this fu...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Russell GK,Gadhok R,Simmonds NJ

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a common complication of preterm birth. Chest imaging is important in making the diagnosis of BPD, and in assessing for complications. More recently computerised tomography (CT) scanning has provided insights in to the pathophysiology of BPD. Studies in infants, young and school age...

journal_title：Paediatric respiratory reviews

authors： Wilson AC

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00