Lung alkaline phosphatase as a marker of fibrosis in chronic interstitial disorders.

abstract：RATIONALE:Cytomegalovirus (CMV), which is one of the most common infections after lung transplantation, is associated with chronic lung allograft dysfunction and worse post-transplantation survival. Current approaches for at-risk patients include a fixed duration of antiviral prophylaxis despite the associated cost and...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Snyder LD,Chan C,Kwon D,Yi JS,Martissa JA,Copeland CA,Osborne RJ,Sparks SD,Palmer SM,Weinhold KJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:No methodical assessment of the lung, cardiac, and sleep function of patients surviving an acute hypercapnic respiratory failure episode requiring admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) has been reported in the literature. OBJECTIVES:To prospectively investigate the prevalence and impact of comorbidities...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Adler D,Pépin JL,Dupuis-Lozeron E,Espa-Cervena K,Merlet-Violet R,Muller H,Janssens JP,Brochard L

更新日期：2017-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We review recent advances in the use of corticosteroids (CS) in pediatric lung disease. CS are frequently used, systemically or by inhalation. Their mechanisms of action in pulmonary diseases are ill defined. CS exert direct inhibitory effects on many inflammatory cells through genomic mechanisms. There is a time lag ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： de Benedictis FM,Bush A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing understanding of the effects and potential pathophysiological role of the ETs in asthma and several of the criteria required to strongly implicate ET-1 as a mediator in this disease have been fulfilled. However, some of the information is preliminary, equivocal and requires confirmation. Furthermore...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Hay DW,Henry PJ,Goldie RG

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of childhood lower respiratory infection, yet viable therapies are lacking. Two major challenges have stalled antiviral development: ethical difficulties in performing pediatric proof-of-concept studies and the prevailing concept that the disease is immun...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： DeVincenzo JP,Wilkinson T,Vaishnaw A,Cehelsky J,Meyers R,Nochur S,Harrison L,Meeking P,Mann A,Moane E,Oxford J,Pareek R,Moore R,Walsh E,Studholme R,Dorsett P,Alvarez R,Lambkin-Williams R

更新日期：2010-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the major pathogen responsible for acute bronchiolitis in infancy. However, evaluation of the relative importance of rhinovirus or multiple viral infections has been hampered by the lack of sensitive diagnostic methodologies. Therefore, in this study we used the reverse transcripti...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Papadopoulos NG,Moustaki M,Tsolia M,Bossios A,Astra E,Prezerakou A,Gourgiotis D,Kafetzis D

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The role of computed tomography (CT) screening for lung cancer is controversial, currently under study, and not yet fully elucidated. OBJECTIVES:To report findings from initial and 1-year repeat screening low-radiation-dose CT of the chest and 3-year outcomes for 50- to 79-year-old current and ex-smokers in ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Wilson DO,Weissfeld JL,Fuhrman CR,Fisher SN,Balogh P,Landreneau RJ,Luketich JD,Siegfried JM

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exaggerated airway narrowing in response to bronchoconstricting stimuli is a characteristic feature of asthmatic subjects. It is unknown whether the site of airway narrowing differs in asthmatic subjects from that observed in normal subjects. Increased airway wall thickness has been suggested as a contributing cause f...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Okazawa M,Müller N,McNamara AE,Child S,Verburgt L,Paré PD

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:There are few follow-up studies on long-term cardiopulmonary function after pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA), the operation of choice for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). OBJECTIVES:To prospectively evaluate long-term outcome of patients with CTEPH treated with PEA. METHODS:Between 1994 ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Corsico AG,D'Armini AM,Cerveri I,Klersy C,Ansaldo E,Niniano R,Gatto E,Monterosso C,Morsolini M,Nicolardi S,Tramontin C,Pozzi E,Viganò M

更新日期：2008-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoking is the major risk factor for chronic respiratory symptoms, but dietary factors may also play a role. Most studies of diet and lung disease have been cross-sectional and conducted in populations with a Western-style diet. We analyzed the relation between dietary intake at baseline and new onset of cough with ph...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Butler LM,Koh WP,Lee HP,Yu MC,London SJ

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) on pulmonary function were investigated in a random sample of 1,033 adults aged 40 to 69 yr from a residential area in Beijing. Compared with those not exposed, those exposed to ETS either at home or at work were associated with a 102-ml (SE = 40 ml) reducti...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Xu X,Li B

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A continuously mixed series of microbial communities inhabits various points of the respiratory tract, with community composition determined by distance from colonization sources, colonization rates, and extinction rates. Ecology and evolution theory developed in the context of biogeography is relevant to clinical mic...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Whiteson KL,Bailey B,Bergkessel M,Conrad D,Delhaes L,Felts B,Harris JK,Hunter R,Lim YW,Maughan H,Quinn R,Salamon P,Sullivan J,Wagner BD,Rainey PB

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a study of the reliability of peak expiratory flow (PEF) monitoring using a portable computerized peak flow meter, the VMX Mini-log, in 17 subjects referred for suspected occupational asthma. Subjects were requested to monitor their PEF six times daily using the VMX Mini-Log for 2 wk at work and at least 10 d ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Quirce S,Contreras G,Dybuncio A,Chan-Yeung M

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung transplantation with its attendant life-long immunosuppression contributes to bone loss and its sequelae, fractures and kyphosis, in patients with lung disease, many of whom already suffer from severe osteoporosis. Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) are one of the most severely affected groups. We conducted a con...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Aris RM,Lester GE,Renner JB,Winders A,Denene Blackwood A,Lark RK,Ontjes DA

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colony-forming units of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum were counted at 2-day intervals in 100 patients treated with 22 regimens of isoniazid, rifampin, pyrazinamide, ethambutol, or streptomycin, given alone or in combinations. The exponential fall in colony-forming units was measured by linear regression coeffic...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Jindani A,Doré CJ,Mitchison DA

更新日期：2003-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Chronic infection with Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteria in cystic fibrosis is associated with accelerated decline in pulmonary function and increased mortality. Clinical implications of the recently characterized genomovar VI, B. dolosa, are unknown. OBJECTIVES:Characterization of impact of B. dolosa on...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kalish LA,Waltz DA,Dovey M,Potter-Bynoe G,McAdam AJ,Lipuma JJ,Gerard C,Goldmann D

更新日期：2006-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The timing and magnitude of airway narrowing in central apneas is unknown. We have developed a method of apnea classification that relies on the transmission of cardiac airflow oscillation to indicate airway patency. Using a theoretical model, we showed that the amplitude of the cardiac airflow oscillation is proporti...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Lemke RP,Idiong N,Al-Saedi S,Kwiatkowski K,Cates DB,Rigatto H

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: This document provides clinical recommendations for the pharmacologic treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It represents a collaborative effort on the part of a panel of expert COPD clinicians and researchers along with a team of methodologists under the guidance of the American Thora...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Nici L,Mammen MJ,Charbek E,Alexander PE,Au DH,Boyd CM,Criner GJ,Donaldson GC,Dreher M,Fan VS,Gershon AS,Han MK,Krishnan JA,Martinez FJ,Meek PM,Morgan M,Polkey MI,Puhan MA,Sadatsafavi M,Sin DD,Washko GR,Wedzicha

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The six-minute walk test is a submaximal exercise test that can be performed even by a patient with heart failure not tolerating maximal exercise testing. To elucidate the clinical significance and prognostic value of the six-minute walk test in patients with primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH), we sought (1) to asse...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Miyamoto S,Nagaya N,Satoh T,Kyotani S,Sakamaki F,Fujita M,Nakanishi N,Miyatake K

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Severe asthma is a major public health issue throughout the world. Increased bronchial smooth muscle (BSM) mass, a characteristic feature of airway remodeling in severe asthma, is associated with resistance to high-intensity treatment and poor prognosis. In vitro, the Ca(2+)-channel blocker gallopamil decreas...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Girodet PO,Dournes G,Thumerel M,Begueret H,Dos Santos P,Ozier A,Dupin I,Trian T,Montaudon M,Laurent F,Marthan R,Berger P

更新日期：2015-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients in whom acid-fast bacilli smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis was newly diagnosed were randomized to receive 400 mg moxifloxacin, 300 mg isonaizid, or 600 mg rifampin daily for 5 days. Sixteen-hour overnight sputa collections were made for the 2 days before and for 5 days of monotherapy. Bactericidal activi...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Gosling RD,Uiso LO,Sam NE,Bongard E,Kanduma EG,Nyindo M,Morris RW,Gillespie SH

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary emphysema and periodontal disease are each characterized by the uncontrolled proteolysis of connective tissue proteins by proteinases derived from human neutrophils. Although these diseases would not appear to be related in terms of the initial insult to individual tissues, the ultimate result in each diseas...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Travis J,Pike R,Imamura T,Potempa J

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied intrasubject variability with respect to counts of immunostained inflammatory cells in snap frozen endobronchial biopsies from a group of patients with clinically mild to moderate stable asthma. Fiberoptic bronchoscopy was used to obtain endobronchial biopsies from the upper and lower lobes in 12 volun...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Richmond I,Booth H,Ward C,Walters EH

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhaled nitric oxide (NO) improves systemic oxygenation (PaO2/FIO2) in adult patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). However, individual response varies, and previous trials demonstrated no outcome benefit. This prospective, randomized study in 40 ARDS patients analyzed dose-response (DR) characteris...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Gerlach H,Keh D,Semmerow A,Busch T,Lewandowski K,Pappert DM,Rossaint R,Falke KJ

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that persists even during adequate therapy and asymptomatic episodes. We questioned whether "silent" chronic allergen exposure can induce and maintain airway inflammation and whether this still occurs during regular treatment with inhaled steroids. Twenty-six patients with hous...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： de Kluijver J,Evertse CE,Schrumpf JA,van der Veen H,Zwinderman AH,Hiemstra PS,Rabe KF,Sterk PJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Acute lung injury (ALI) that develops 6 hours after transfusion (TRALI) is the leading cause of transfusion-related mortality. Several transfusion characteristics have been postulated as risk factors for TRALI, but the evidence is limited to retrospective studies. OBJECTIVES:To compare patient and transfusio...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Gajic O,Rana R,Winters JL,Yilmaz M,Mendez JL,Rickman OB,O'Byrne MM,Evenson LK,Malinchoc M,DeGoey SR,Afessa B,Hubmayr RD,Moore SB

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Great emphasis is placed on educating asthmatics to use action plans to achieve better control of symptoms. The use of peak flow meters (PFM) has been recommended as an important part of self-management plans. We studied 92 (47 F) adult patients with asthma in a primary care setting to compare the effectiveness of act...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Turner MO,Taylor D,Bennett R,Fitzgerald JM

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiology of impaired exercise tolerance in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) is not completely understood. The objective of this study was to compare exercise ability (at clinical and cellular levels) and resting energy expenditure in female athletes with CF compared with matched control subjects. Sixteen ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Selvadurai HC,Allen J,Sachinwalla T,Macauley J,Blimkie CJ,Van Asperen PP

更新日期：2003-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhaled corticosteroids are effective antiinflammatory therapy for asthma; however, they do not completely abolish allergen-induced airway inflammation. Leukotriene modifiers attenuate both early and late allergen responses and have antiinflammatory properties. We reasoned that treatment with budesonide and montelukas...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Leigh R,Vethanayagam D,Yoshida M,Watson RM,Rerecich T,Inman MD,O'Byrne PM

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:It is hypothesized that the affective dimension of dyspnea (unpleasantness, emotional response) is not strictly dependent on the intensity of dyspnea. OBJECTIVES:We tested the hypothesis that the ratio of immediate unpleasantness (A(1)) to sensory intensity (SI) varies depending on the type of dyspnea. METH...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Banzett RB,Pedersen SH,Schwartzstein RM,Lansing RW

更新日期：2008-06-15 00:00:00