Lung function and long term exposure to air pollutants in Switzerland. Study on Air Pollution and Lung Diseases in Adults (SAPALDIA) Team.

abstract：RATIONALE:Vitamin D has been shown to be involved in the host immune response toward Mycobacterium tuberculosis. OBJECTIVES:To test whether vitamin D supplementation of patients with tuberculosis (TB) improved clinical outcome and reduced mortality. METHODS:We conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Wejse C,Gomes VF,Rabna P,Gustafson P,Aaby P,Lisse IM,Andersen PL,Glerup H,Sodemann M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfactant protein B (SP-B) is one of the essential constituents of the alveolar surfactant system, presenting mainly in the form of SP-B dimer. The measurement of this molecule in biologic samples has been hampered by its extreme hydrophobicity and intimate association with surfactant lipids. We developed a solid-pha...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Krämer HJ,Schmidt R,Günther A,Becker G,Suzuki Y,Seeger W

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lone cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (CFA) is a progressive interstitial lung disease, with a median survival of 3 to 6 yr from the onset of dyspnea. CFA can be subdivided into prognostically significant histopathologic patterns, including nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP). We reviewed 78 patients with a clin...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Nicholson AG,Colby TV,du Bois RM,Hansell DM,Wells AU

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microscopic examination of tissue sections of mycobacterial lesions frequently results in few or no bacilli seen, even if the lesions appear active histologically. This might be due to the effects of the fixative fluid and/or organic solvent, both of which are conventionally used to make tissue sections for histopatho...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Fukunaga H,Murakami T,Gondo T,Sugi K,Ishihara T

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lung cancer screening (LCS) has the potential to reduce the risk of lung cancer death in healthy individuals, but the impact of coexisting chronic illnesses on LCS outcomes has not been well defined. Consideration of the complex relationship between baseline risk of lung cancer, treatment-related harms, and ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Rivera MP,Tanner NT,Silvestri GA,Detterbeck FC,Tammemägi MC,Young RP,Slatore CG,Caverly TJ,Boyd CM,Braithwaite D,Fathi JT,Gould MK,Iaccarino JM,Malkoski SP,Mazzone PJ,Tanoue LT,Schoenborn NL,Zulueta JJ,Wiener RS,Ame

更新日期：2018-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this investigation, tenascin (Tn) expression was studied in 51 cases of different types of fibrotic lung disorders originating for years 1981 to 1995. Our aim was to test if accumulation of Tn at the site of lung injury in usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) could correlate with the prognosis. Lung biopsies taken fr...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kaarteenaho-Wiik R,Tani T,Sormunen R,Soini Y,Virtanen I,Pääkkö P

更新日期：1996-08-01 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：:To investigate repair mechanisms in bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis, we used mice deficient in gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT-/-), a key enzyme in glutathione (GSH) and cysteine metabolism. Seventy-two hours after bleomycin (0.03 U/g), GGT-/- mice displayed a different inflammatory response to wild-type mice ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Pardo A,Ruiz V,Arreola JL,Ramírez R,Cisneros-Lira J,Gaxiola M,Barrios R,Kala SV,Lieberman MW,Selman M

更新日期：2003-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：KEYWORDS:Children as young as 6 years old can perform spirometry, yet the relationship between current asthma, lung function, and bronchial responsiveness has not been described at this age; 2,537 children from a community-based birth cohort were assessed at 6 years of age, with history (n = 2,141), physical examinatio...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Joseph-Bowen J,de Klerk NH,Firth MJ,Kendall GE,Holt PG,Sly PD

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: Mathematical modeling is used to understand disease dynamics, forecast trends, and inform public health prioritization. We conducted a comparative analysis of tuberculosis (TB) epidemiology and potential intervention effects in California, using three previously developed epidemiologic models of TB.Objectiv...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Menzies NA,Parriott A,Shrestha S,Dowdy DW,Cohen T,Salomon JA,Marks SM,Hill AN,Winston CA,Asay GR,Barry P,Readhead A,Flood J,Kahn JG,Shete PB

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Lung allografts are prone to reperfusion injury and acute rejection, which, in addition to infiltrating lymphocytes, are accompanied by neutrophil infiltration and neutrophil-associated oxidative stress. Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) is a unique cytosolic enzyme that possesses T-cell-suppressive and antio...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Liu H,Liu L,Fletcher BS,Visner GA

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last century experienced remarkable advances in the classification, diagnosis, and understanding of the pathogenesis of the interstitial lung diseases. Technological advances, particularly physiologic testing, lung imaging studies, bronchoalveolar lavage, surgical lung biopsy, and histopathologic assessment, impro...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： King TE Jr

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic factors are likely to contribute to the variable presentation of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). The purpose of this prospective cohort study was to determine whether the LTalpha+250 (TNFbeta+250) and TNFalpha-308 gene polymorphisms are associated with different presentations of CAP. Septic shock (SS) was ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Waterer GW,Quasney MW,Cantor RM,Wunderink RG

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Patients of Hispanic origin with cystic fibrosis (CF) are the largest growing minority, representing 8.5% of patients with CF in the United States. No national survival analysis of this group has ever been undertaken. OBJECTIVES:We aimed to determine whether Hispanic ethnicity within the CF population is ass...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Rho J,Ahn C,Gao A,Sawicki GS,Keller A,Jain R

更新日期：2018-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:At present there is some indirect evidence for increased nocturnal inflammation in patients suffering from nocturnal asthma: 1. Circulating eosinophil numbers and activation, as reflected by increased levels of ECP and EDN and low-density eosinophils, are increased at night. 2. Circulating histamine levels are increas...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Postma DS,Oosterhoff Y,van Aalderen WM,Kauffman HF,Wempe JB,Koëter GH

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of patient education on steroid inhaler compliance and rescue medication utilization in patients with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has not been previously investigated in a single study. We randomized 78 asthmatics and 62 patients with COPD after ordinary outpatient management. Int...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Gallefoss F,Bakke PS

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of alveoli is a key structural determinant of lung architecture. A design-based stereologic approach was used for the direct and unbiased estimation of alveolar number in the human lung. The principle is based on two-dimensional topology in three-dimensional space and is free of assumptions on the shape, si...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Ochs M,Nyengaard JR,Jung A,Knudsen L,Voigt M,Wahlers T,Richter J,Gundersen HJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protective role for dietary antioxidants in asthma has been proposed. However, epidemiological evidence to implicate antioxidant vitamins is weak, and data on the role of flavonoid-rich foods and antioxidant trace elements are lacking. We carried out a population-based case-control study in South London, UK, to inve...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Shaheen SO,Sterne JA,Thompson RL,Songhurst CE,Margetts BM,Burney PG

更新日期：2001-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma level of fibrinogen is felt to be an independent risk factor for vascular events. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has a high prevalence in patients with stroke and may also be an independent risk factor. The aim of our study was to determine the association between OSA and plasma levels of fibrinogen in patie...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Wessendorf TE,Thilmann AF,Wang YM,Schreiber A,Konietzko N,Teschler H

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Despite increasing evidence about the role of donor-specific human leukocyte antigen (HLA) antibodies in transplant outcomes, the incidence and impact of de novo donor-specific antibodies (dnDSA) after lung transplantation remains unclear. OBJECTIVES:To describe the incidence, characteristics, and impact of ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Tikkanen JM,Singer LG,Kim SJ,Li Y,Binnie M,Chaparro C,Chow CW,Martinu T,Azad S,Keshavjee S,Tinckam K

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Airway inflammation is involved in the pathogenesis of bronchial asthma. Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) is a ligand for lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1 alpha (LFA-1 alpha) and has been shown to be required for leukocyte migration into inflamed area. The purpose of this report was to investigate th...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Nagase T,Fukuchi Y,Matsuse T,Sudo E,Matsui H,Orimo H

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

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：:Lung transplant (LTx) recipients have a low peak work rate, peak oxygen consumption (V O2peak), and early lactate threshold on incremental exercise. We hypothesized that LTx recipients have reduced oxidative function and altered fiber type proportion in peripheral skeletal muscle. Seven stable LTx recipients and seven...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Wang XN,Williams TJ,McKenna MJ,Li JL,Fraser SF,Side EA,Snell GI,Walters EH,Carey MF

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) received in random order nitric oxide (NO) inhalation, aerosolized prostaglandin E1 (PGE1), infusion of PGE1, or no intervention. Inhalation of either aerosolized PGE1 (10 +/- 1 ng/kg/min) or NO (7 +/- 1 ppm) reduced pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) from ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Putensen C,Hörmann C,Kleinsasser A,Putensen-Himmer G

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Corticosteroids are the antiinflammatory treatment of choice in asthma. Treatment guidelines are mainly symptom-driven but symptoms are not closely related to airway inflammation. The fraction of nitric oxide in exhaled air (FENO) is a marker of airway inflammation in asthma. OBJECTIVE:We evaluated whether t...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Pijnenburg MW,Bakker EM,Hop WC,De Jongste JC

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preventing, treating, and promoting recovery from critical illness due to pulmonary disease are foundational goals of the critical care community and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Decades of clinical research in acute respiratory distress syndrome, acute respiratory failure, pneumonia, and sepsis have...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Semler MW,Bernard GR,Aaron SD,Angus DC,Biros MH,Brower RG,Calfee CS,Colantuoni EA,Ferguson ND,Gong MN,Hopkins RO,Hough CL,Iwashyna TJ,Levy BD,Martin TR,Matthay MA,Mizgerd JP,Moss M,Needham DM,Self WH,Seymour CW,

更新日期：2020-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A major cause of morbidity and mortality following lung transplantation is posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD). In a retrospective cohort analysis of pediatric patients, we evaluated the risk factors associated with PTLD in 128 first-time lung transplant recipients from 1990 to 1997. The greatest risk fa...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Cohen AH,Sweet SC,Mendeloff E,Mallory GB Jr,Huddleston CB,Kraus M,Kelly M,Hayashi R,DeBaun MR

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The role of NADPH oxidase activation in pneumonia is complex because reactive oxygen species contribute to both microbial killing and regulation of the acute pulmonary infiltrate. The relative importance of each role remains poorly defined in community-acquired pneumonia. OBJECTIVES:We evaluated the contribu...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Marriott HM,Jackson LE,Wilkinson TS,Simpson AJ,Mitchell TJ,Buttle DJ,Cross SS,Ince PG,Hellewell PG,Whyte MK,Dockrell DH

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two reliable methods for high-throughput screening of proteinase inhibitor (PI) S and PI Z alpha(1)-antitrypsin (alpha(1)-AT) deficiency alleles from dried blood spot (DBS) specimens using the LightCycler fluorimetric analyzer. The method was used to study 72 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary dis...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Rodriguez F,Jardí R,Costa X,Cotrina M,Galimany R,Vidal R,Miravitlles M

更新日期：2002-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: Tidal expiratory flow limitation (tidal-EFL) is not completely avoidable by applying positive end-expiratory pressure and may cause respiratory and hemodynamic complications in ventilated patients with lungs prone to collapse. During spontaneous breathing, expiratory diaphragmatic contraction counteracts ti...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Pellegrini M,Gudmundsson M,Bencze R,Segelsjö M,Freden F,Rylander C,Hedenstierna G,Larsson AS,Perchiazzi G

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00