Evidence for multiple genetic susceptibility loci for asthma.

abstract：:At the time of diagnosis, many sarcoidosis patients have no clinical indication for corticosteroid therapy, and prognostic parameters predicting deterioration are missing. In the present study, we investigated parameters derived from bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and serum in 77 patients with recently diagnosed sarcoid...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Ziegenhagen MW,Benner UK,Zissel G,Zabel P,Schlaak M,Müller-Quernheim J

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma in children and young adults is strongly associated with immediate hypersensitivity to indoor allergens, notably those derived from the house dust mite. In addition, outdoor air pollution is considered to aggravate existing asthma. We investigated the prevalence of asthma and the pattern of allergen sensitizati...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Sporik R,Ingram JM,Price W,Sussman JH,Honsinger RW,Platts-Mills TA

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Smoking is the largest contributor to lung cancer risk, and those who continue to smoke after diagnosis have a worse survival. Screening for lung cancer with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces mortality in high-risk individuals. Smoking cessation is an essential component of a high-quality screening ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Tanner NT,Kanodra NM,Gebregziabher M,Payne E,Halbert CH,Warren GW,Egede LE,Silvestri GA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Studies in humans and rodents have indicated a causative role for CD8(+) T cells in IgE-mediated allergic inflammation, but their function is still controversial. OBJECTIVES:To analyze the role of allergen-specific CD8(+) T cells during the development of allergic airway inflammation in two parallel but dive...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Aguilar-Pimentel JA,Alessandrini F,Huster KM,Jakob T,Schulz H,Behrendt H,Ring J,de Angelis MH,Busch DH,Mempel M,Ollert M

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：RATIONALE:Patients with acute lung injury have impaired function of the lung surfactant system. Prior clinical trials have shown that treatment with exogenous recombinant surfactant protein C (rSP-C)-based surfactant results in improvement in blood oxygenation and have suggested that treatment of patients with severe d...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Spragg RG,Taut FJ,Lewis JF,Schenk P,Ruppert C,Dean N,Krell K,Karabinis A,Günther A

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Severe asthma (SA) remains poorly understood. Mast cells (MC) are implicated in asthma pathogenesis, but it remains unknown how their phenotype, location, and activation relate to asthma severity. OBJECTIVES:To compare MC-related markers measured in bronchoscopically obtained samples with clinically relevant...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Balzar S,Fajt ML,Comhair SA,Erzurum SC,Bleecker E,Busse WW,Castro M,Gaston B,Israel E,Schwartz LB,Curran-Everett D,Moore CG,Wenzel SE

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current classification of pulmonary hypertension (PH) is based on a relatively simple combination of patient characteristics and hemodynamics. This limits customization of treatment, and lacks the clarity of a more granular identification based on individual patient phenotypes. Rapid advances in mechanistic ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Dweik RA,Rounds S,Erzurum SC,Archer S,Fagan K,Hassoun PM,Hill NS,Humbert M,Kawut SM,Krowka M,Michelakis E,Morrell NW,Stenmark K,Tuder RM,Newman J,ATS Committee on Pulmonary Hypertension Phenotypes.

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a chronic lung disease of very low birth weight infants, associated with oxygen therapy, barotrauma, and/or infections. Improved medical care has led to a paradoxically increased incidence of BPD due to greater infant survival. Early prediction of BPD has proven challenging. Increas...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Cullen A,Van Marter LJ,Allred EN,Moore M,Parad RB,Sunday ME

更新日期：2002-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) frequently have albuminuria (indicative of renal endothelial cell injury) associated with hypoxemia. OBJECTIVES:To determine whether (1) cigarette smoke (CS)-induced pulmonary and renal endothelial cell injury explains the association between albumin...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Polverino F,Laucho-Contreras ME,Petersen H,Bijol V,Sholl LM,Choi ME,Divo M,Pinto-Plata V,Chetta A,Tesfaigzi Y,Celli BR,Owen CA

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allergen inhalation causes airway hyperresponsiveness and airway inflammation in dogs. The purpose of this study was to determine whether allergen-induced airway hyperresponsiveness is associated with increases in oxygen radical production from bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) cells. A group of 10 random-source dogs were ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Stevens WH,Inman MD,Wattie J,O'Byrne PM

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of lipoxygenase metabolites in the pathogenesis of endotoxin (LPS)-induced lung injury remains to be clarified. We investigated the contribution of peptide leukotrienes to LPS-induced acute lung injury using a potent antagonist, ONO-1078 (ONO). Experimental groups consisted of a saline group (n = 10), an LPS ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Ishizaka A,Hasegawa N,Sakamaki F,Tasaka S,Nakamura H,Kishikawa K,Yamada A,Obata T,Sayama K,Urano T

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Lung transplant recipients are particularly at risk of complications from rhinovirus, the most frequent respiratory virus circulating in the community. OBJECTIVES:To determine whether lung transplant recipients can be chronically infected by rhinovirus and the potential clinical impact. METHODS:We first ide...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kaiser L,Aubert JD,Pache JC,Deffernez C,Rochat T,Garbino J,Wunderli W,Meylan P,Yerly S,Perrin L,Letovanec I,Nicod L,Tapparel C,Soccal PM

更新日期：2006-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is traditionally diagnosed using overnight polysomnography. Decision rules may provide an alternative to polysomnography. A consecutive series of patients referred to a tertiary sleep center underwent prospective evaluation with the upper airway physical examination protocol, followed by ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Tsai WH,Remmers JE,Brant R,Flemons WW,Davies J,Macarthur C

更新日期：2003-05-15 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：:It has long been known that there are cyclic changes in arterial pressure during mechanical ventilation. They are caused by cyclic changes in both the right and left ventricular stroke output, occurring in opposite phases. As a result, arterial pulse pressure is increased during inspiration and decreased during expira...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Vieillard-Baron A,Chergui K,Augarde R,Prin S,Page B,Beauchet A,Jardin F

更新日期：2003-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Airway remodeling is an important feature of chronic asthma that causes irreversible airflow obstruction. Although asthma is considered to be a Th2 disease, the role of T-bet and GATA-3, the key transcription factors for differentiation toward Th1 and Th2 cells, in the pathogenesis of airway remodeling is poo...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kiwamoto T,Ishii Y,Morishima Y,Yoh K,Maeda A,Ishizaki K,Iizuka T,Hegab AE,Matsuno Y,Homma S,Nomura A,Sakamoto T,Takahashi S,Sekizawa K

更新日期：2006-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown (Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 1995;152:1248-1255) that in patients needing mechanical ventilation, the load imposed on the inspiratory muscles is excessive relative to their neuromuscular capacity. We have therefore hypothesized that weaning failure may occur because at the time of the trial...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Vassilakopoulos T,Zakynthinos S,Roussos C

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial stewardship involves a multifaceted approach that strives to combat the emergence of resistance, improve clinical outcomes, and control costs by improving antimicrobial use. Therefore, stewardship is of great importance and relevance in the intensive care unit. Clinical decision support systems, biomarke...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Lawrence KL,Kollef MH

更新日期：2009-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, studies found that mortality rates for pulmonary fibrosis were increasing. Recent data for mortality from pulmonary fibrosis are unavailable. OBJECTIVES:We sought to determine mortality rates for pulmonary fibrosis in the United States from 1992 through 2003. METHODS:...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Olson AL,Swigris JJ,Lezotte DC,Norris JM,Wilson CG,Brown KK

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Noncommunicable diseases are major causes of morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa (sSA). Valid burden of disease estimates are lacking for noncommunicable lung disease in sSA. OBJECTIVES:We performed a community-based survey to determine the prevalence of chronic lung disease among adults 18 years o...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Meghji J,Nadeau G,Davis KJ,Wang D,Nyirenda MJ,Gordon SB,Mortimer K

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the hypothesis that hyperresponsiveness of the upper airway (UAHR) is present in patients with chronic cough of diverse etiology. We determined the frequency of bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR), hyperresponsiveness of the upper airway, sputum eosinophilia, pulmonary aspiration, and psychological symptoms ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Carney IK,Gibson PG,Murree-Allen K,Saltos N,Olson LG,Hensley MJ

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Recent findings have demonstrated that muscarinic M(3) receptor stimulation enhances airway smooth muscle proliferation to peptide growth factors in vitro. Because both peptide growth factor expression and acetylcholine release are known to be augmented in allergic airway inflammation, it is possible that ant...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Gosens R,Bos IS,Zaagsma J,Meurs H

更新日期：2005-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Guidelines, protocols, and checklists (together called "protocols") can be immensely helpful in the clinical arena. However, clinicians and health care systems relying on protocols must assess whether benefits are being accrued, whether such "benefits" are real, and whether harm can be detected. These concerns are imp...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kavanagh BP,Nurok M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the plasma levels of adrenomedullin (AM), a novel vasodilating peptide, in 89 patients with various forms of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and 13 healthy volunteers serving as controls. Plasma levels of AM in SIRS (burns: 20.5 +/- 3. 2 fmol/ml [mean +/- SEM]; pancreatitis: 13.8 +/- 3.8 fmo...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Ueda S,Nishio K,Minamino N,Kubo A,Akai Y,Kangawa K,Matsuo H,Fujimura Y,Yoshioka A,Masui K,Doi N,Murao Y,Miyamoto S

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of patients awaiting lung transplantation (LT) and waiting time for surgery is increasing. In Australia, LT rates are 4. 6/million population/yr, which despite low organ donation rates, are the highest published in the world. The Australian organ allocation system allows identification of marginal donors an...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Gabbay E,Williams TJ,Griffiths AP,Macfarlane LM,Kotsimbos TC,Esmore DS,Snell GI

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether the cytokine interleukin (IL)-1 beta directly affects airway smooth muscle functions and, if so, what the mechanism of action is, we studied canine isolated bronchial segments under isometric conditions in vitro. Incubation of tissues with human recombinant IL-1 beta (10 ng/ml) for 150 min decreas...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Tamaoki J,Yamawaki I,Takeyama K,Chiyotani A,Yamauchi F,Konno K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critical illness is not a discrete disease state or syndrome. It is the culmination of a multiplicity of heterogeneous disease states and their varied health trajectories leading to extreme illness that requires advanced life support in a distinct geographic location in the hospital. It is a marker of newly acquired o...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Herridge MS

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：RATIONALE:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is characterized by dietary antioxidant deficiencies, which may contribute to an oxidant-antioxidant imbalance and oxidative stress. OBJECTIVES:Evaluate the effects of an oral antioxidant-enriched multivitamin supplement on antioxidant concentrations, markers of inflammation and oxidativ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Sagel SD,Khan U,Jain R,Graff G,Daines CL,Dunitz JM,Borowitz D,Orenstein DM,Abdulhamid I,Noe J,Clancy JP,Slovis B,Rock MJ,McCoy KS,Strausbaugh S,Livingston FR,Papas KA,Shaffer ML

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00