Use of a fixed combination beta 2-agonist and steroid dry powder inhaler in asthma.

abstract：:The interleukin-1 cluster on human chromosome 2q12-2q14 harbors various promising candidate genes for asthma and other inflammatory diseases. We conducted a systematic association study with single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located in candidate genes situated in this cluster. Single-marker, two-locus and three-l...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Gohlke H,Illig T,Bahnweg M,Klopp N,André E,Altmüller J,Herbon N,Werner M,Knapp M,Pescollderungg L,Boner A,Malerba G,Pignatti PF,Wjst M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The CD40 protein plays important roles in cell-mediated and humoral immune responses, especially in immunoglobulin class-switching to IgE. OBJECTIVES:We tested the association of CD40 polymorphisms with the risk of asthma and the level of serum IgE and investigated the functional effect of associated polymor...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Park JH,Chang HS,Park CS,Jang AS,Park BL,Rhim TY,Uh ST,Kim YH,Chung IY,Shin HD

更新日期：2007-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinicians are frequently faced with patients in whom the radiographic resolution of community-acquired pneumonia seems delayed. Previous studies of radiographic resolution of the disease have yielded conflicting results. We prospectively assessed the radiographic resolution of pneumonia in 81 non-immuno-compromised p...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Mittl RL Jr,Schwab RJ,Duchin JS,Goin JE,Albeida SM,Miller WT

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Qualitatively the mechanical, structural, and biochemical properties of airway smooth muscles resemble those of all other smooth muscle. However, one important distinguishing feature of airway smooth muscle is that the major portion of isotonic shortening is completed within the first 3 s in a muscle whose contraction...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Stephens NL,Li W,Wang Y,Ma X

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) can be curative in patients with certain malignancies, survival is poor if the recipient becomes critically ill. This prospective study examined the outcomes of 115 consecutive HSCT patients admitted to the medical intensive care unit (MICU) of a tertiary cancer ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Price KJ,Thall PF,Kish SK,Shannon VR,Andersson BS

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A histologic feature of usual interstitial pneumonia is the presence of fibroblastic foci. As some patients with usual interstitial pneumonia and an underlying collagen vascular disease have a better prognosis, we hypothesized that they would have fewer fibroblastic foci. Pathologists reviewed surgical lung biopsies f...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Flaherty KR,Colby TV,Travis WD,Toews GB,Mumford J,Murray S,Thannickal VJ,Kazerooni EA,Gross BH,Lynch JP 3rd,Martinez FJ

更新日期：2003-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is a potent endogenous vasoconstrictor that was recently shown to exhibit bronchoconstrictive properties in vitro. In asthmatic patients, the expression of ET-1 peptide was also shown to be increased in endobronchial biopsies. Thus, we postulated that ET-1 could be higher in subjects with nocturnal...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kraft M,Beam WR,Wenzel SE,Zamora MR,O'Brien RF,Martin RJ

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on serial lung function measurements performed in 142 children (68 males; 74 females) with cystic fibrosis (CF), prospectively evaluated over an age range of 6 to 20 years, we attempted to determine whether the lung clearance index (LCI) as a measure of ventilation inhomogeneities could be a discriminating facto...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kraemer R,Blum A,Schibler A,Ammann RA,Gallati S

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:An objective and simple prognostic model for patients with pulmonary embolism could be helpful in guiding initial intensity of treatment. OBJECTIVES:To develop a clinical prediction rule that accurately classifies patients with pulmonary embolism into categories of increasing risk of mortality and other adve...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Aujesky D,Obrosky DS,Stone RA,Auble TE,Perrier A,Cornuz J,Roy PM,Fine MJ

更新日期：2005-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Airway obstruction (AO) in exercise-induced asthma (EIA) is considered a postexercise phenomenon. However, many with EIA complain of respiratory distress during exercise. We evaluated AO in six asthmatic subjects during a short (SX = 6 min) and a long (LX = 20 min) exercise session. We measured peak expiratory flow (P...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Suman OE,Babcock MA,Pegelow DF,Jarjour NN,Reddan WG

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although numerous reports have described the improvement in PAO2 in patients in the prone position, the underlying mechanism has yet to be determined. Some authors have suggested this phenomenon may be related to an increase in functional residual capacity (FRC); however, no previous studies have described positional ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Numa AH,Hammer J,Newth CJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The promise of newborn screening (NBS) for cystic fibrosis (CF) has not been fully realized, and the extent of improvement in respiratory outcomes is unclear. We hypothesized that significant lung disease was present at diagnosis. OBJECTIVES:To determine the extent of lung disease in a geographically defined...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Sly PD,Brennan S,Gangell C,de Klerk N,Murray C,Mott L,Stick SM,Robinson PJ,Robertson CF,Ranganathan SC,Australian Respiratory Early Surveillance Team for Cystic Fibrosis (AREST-CF).

更新日期：2009-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:There is conflicting information about the development and resolution of airway inflammation and airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) after repeated airway exposure to allergen in sensitized mice. METHODS:Sensitized BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice were exposed to repeated allergen challenge on 3, 7, or 11 occasions. Air...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Koya T,Kodama T,Takeda K,Miyahara N,Yang ES,Taube C,Joetham A,Park JW,Dakhama A,Gelfand EW

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The effect of early life wheezing on respiratory function and continued symptoms through adolescence has not been fully described. Using data from a population-based birth cohort in Tucson, Arizona, we previously described four phenotypes based on the occurrence of wheezing lower respiratory illnesses before ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Morgan WJ,Stern DA,Sherrill DL,Guerra S,Holberg CJ,Guilbert TW,Taussig LM,Wright AL,Martinez FD

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Diseases of the respiratory tract are among the leading causes of death in the world population. Increasing evidence points to a key role of the innate immune system with its pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) in both infectious and noninfectious lung diseases, which include pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Opitz B,van Laak V,Eitel J,Suttorp N

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred forty-one subjects 34 to 69 yr of age were recruited from a random sample of the community. The sample was biased in favor of men, snorers, and subjects with subjective sleep complaints. They answered a questionnaire and were monitored in their homes for sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). This report conce...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Olson LG,King MT,Hensley MJ,Saunders NA

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prospectively investigated the mechanism of airflow limitation before and after targeted emphysematous resection in 12 consecutively studied adult patients 68 +/- 4 yr of age (mean +/- SD) with very severe COPD undergoing bilateral thoracoscopic stapling techniques. Lung function, static lung elastic recoil, and ai...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Gelb AF,Zamel N,McKenna RJ Jr,Brenner M

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Very little is known about airways that are too small to be visible on thoracic multidetector computed tomography but larger than the terminal bronchioles. OBJECTIVES:To examine the structure of preterminal bronchioles located one generation proximal to terminal bronchioles in centrilobular and panlobular em...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Tanabe N,Vasilescu DM,McDonough JE,Kinose D,Suzuki M,Cooper JD,Paré PD,Hogg JC

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine if gastric intramucosal pH changes during weaning from mechanical ventilation are related to gastric mucosal blood flow modifications, we studied 16 ventilator-supported patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who tolerated a 2-h trial of spontaneous breathing with pressure support vent...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Bocquillon N,Mathieu D,Neviere R,Lefebvre N,Marechal X,Wattel F

更新日期：1999-11-01 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：:In unilateral lung injury, application of global positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) may cause overdistension of normal alveoli and redistribution of blood flow to diseased lung areas, thereby worsening oxygenation. We hypothesized that selective application of tracheal gas insufflation (TGI) will recruit the inju...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Blanch L,Van der Kloot TE,Youngblood AM,Murias G,Naveira A,Adams AB,Romero PV,Nahum A

更新日期：2001-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Transbronchial biopsies (TBBs) are useful to diagnose acute rejection and infection in patients with lung transplants. The value of routine surveillance biopsies (S-TBBs) is not known, and such biopsies with a clinical indication are not without risk and are expensive. One hundred twenty-six 6-mo survivors of heart-lu...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Tamm M,Sharples LD,Higenbottam TW,Stewart S,Wallwork J

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been four types of drug treatment of asthma that have been used over the past 100 years. Belladonna alkaloids, derived from the thorn-apple plant were used in 1905, and chemically synthesized entities in this class are still in use today. Western medicine began to use adrenergic stimulants approximately 100...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Chu EK,Drazen JM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Exhaled nitric oxide (NO) is a well-known marker of established airway inflammation in asthma. Its role in the disease process before the onset of respiratory symptoms remains unclear. OBJECTIVES:To examine whether elevated NO in newborns with clinically naive airways is associated with subsequent respirator...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Latzin P,Kuehni CE,Baldwin DN,Roiha HL,Casaulta C,Frey U

更新日期：2006-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a highly prevalent disorder in children, in which enlarged adenotonsillar tissues (AT) play a major pathophysiologic role. Mechanisms leading to the proliferation and hypertrophy of AT in children who subsequently develop OSA remain unknown, and surgical extirpation of AT is a...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Khalyfa A,Gharib SA,Kim J,Dayyat E,Snow AB,Bhattacharjee R,Kheirandish-Gozal L,Goldman JL,Gozal D

更新日期：2010-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:IL-9 is a pleiotropic cytokine that has multiple effects on structural as well as numerous hematopoietic cells, which are central to the pathogenesis of asthma. OBJECTIVES:The contribution of IL-9 to asthma pathogenesis has thus far been unclear, due to conflicting reports in the literature. These earlier st...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kearley J,Erjefalt JS,Andersson C,Benjamin E,Jones CP,Robichaud A,Pegorier S,Brewah Y,Burwell TJ,Bjermer L,Kiener PA,Kolbeck R,Lloyd CM,Coyle AJ,Humbles AA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:HIV-1-induced interstitial pneumonitis (IP) is a serious complication of HIV-1 infection, characterized by inflammation and cellular infiltration in lungs, often leading to respiratory failure and death. The barrier function of the pulmonary endothelium is caused in part by tight junction (TJ) proteins, such ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Li H,Singh S,Potula R,Persidsky Y,Kanmogne GD

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to examine the performance characteristics of four high-frequency oscillatory-type ventilators, using an in vitro model of the intubated neonatal respiratory system. Each ventilator was examined across its operative range of settings and at varying model lung compliance (C) and resistance. The oscilla...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Pillow JJ,Wilkinson MH,Neil HL,Ramsden CA

更新日期：2001-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ineffective lung repair in patients with unresolving acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is accompanied by progressive fibroproliferation, inability to improve lung injury score (LIS), progressive multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS), and an unfavorable outcome. Our aim was to investigate the relationship...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Meduri GU,Tolley EA,Chinn A,Stentz F,Postlethwaite A

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:In a high-tuberculosis (TB) incidence area of Cape Town, South Africa, there is a very high rate of unexplained recurrent TB. The incidence of new bacteriologically confirmed disease in the area is 313 per 100,000 individuals. OBJECTIVE:To estimate the rate of recurrent TB attributable to reinfection after s...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Verver S,Warren RM,Beyers N,Richardson M,van der Spuy GD,Borgdorff MW,Enarson DA,Behr MA,van Helden PD

更新日期：2005-06-15 00:00:00