Sarcoidosis: TNF-alpha release from alveolar macrophages and serum level of sIL-2R are prognostic markers.

abstract：RATIONALE:Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) may arise in individuals on treatment for multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB. Preventing this amplification of resistance will likely improve clinical outcomes and delay the secondary spread of XDR-TB. OBJECTIVES:To measure the proportion of individuals that devel...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Shin SS,Keshavjee S,Gelmanova IY,Atwood S,Franke MF,Mishustin SP,Strelis AK,Andreev YG,Pasechnikov AD,Barnashov A,Tonkel TP,Cohen T

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids (GC) are the most effective anti-inflammatory drugs used in asthma. By a process called trans-activation, they increase the transcription of genes involved in either beneficial processes or certain side effects. Through trans-repression, they inhibit the transcription factors nuclear factor kappa B (NF...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Jaffuel D,Demoly P,Gougat C,Balaguer P,Mautino G,Godard P,Bousquet J,Mathieu M

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) is a genetic disorder mainly characterized by failure of automatic control of breathing, causing alveolar hypoventilation. Little is known regarding cough in CCHS. Parental reports indicate that patients cough normally during airway infections; however, previ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Lavorini F,Fontana GA,Pantaleo T,Geri P,Piumelli R,Pistolesi M,Widdicombe J

更新日期：2007-10-15 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：RATIONALE:Tidal volume and plateau pressure limitation decreases mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome. Computed tomography demonstrated a small, normally aerated compartment on the top of poorly aerated and nonaerated compartments that may be hyperinflated by tidal inflation. OBJECTIVES:We hypothesized tha...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Terragni PP,Rosboch G,Tealdi A,Corno E,Menaldo E,Davini O,Gandini G,Herrmann P,Mascia L,Quintel M,Slutsky AS,Gattinoni L,Ranieri VM

更新日期：2007-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:From an Aspergillus fumigatus complementary deoxyribonucleic acid (cDNA) library displayed on phage surface, an allergen formally termed rAsp f 3 was cloned. The open-reading frame of the cloned gene for the allergen encodes a protein of 168 amino acids with a predicted molecular mass of 18.5 kD, showing 36% identity ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Hemmann S,Blaser K,Crameri R

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous study of adrenergic control of the tracheal vasculature in rats (1) demonstrated that beta-adrenergic blockade heightened arteriolar and large venular contractile responses to norepinephrine, a nonselective alpha-adrenergic agonist. The present study was undertaken to confirm the presence of functional beta-a...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Corboz MR,Ballard ST,Inglis SK,Taylor AE

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that in patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), intrinsic positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEPi) is generated by a disproportionate increase in expiratory flow resistance. Using the negative expiratory pressure (NEP) technique, we assessed whether expiratory flow limitation (E...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Koutsoukou A,Armaganidis A,Stavrakaki-Kallergi C,Vassilakopoulos T,Lymberis A,Roussos C,Milic-Emili J

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is controversial whether mutations in cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator intrinsically dysregulate inflammation. We characterized passage 2 human tracheobronchial epithelial cell cultures morphologically and physiologically and determined whether cytokine production or nuclear factor-kappaB activat...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Becker MN,Sauer MS,Muhlebach MS,Hirsh AJ,Wu Q,Verghese MW,Randell SH

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Studies in patients and experimental animals provide compelling evidence of the involvement of the major thrombin receptor, proteinase-activated receptor-1 (PAR(1)), and the potent chemokine, chemokine (CC motif) ligand-2 (CCL2)/monocyte chemotactic protein-1, in the pathogenesis of idiopathic pulmonary fibro...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Mercer PF,Johns RH,Scotton CJ,Krupiczojc MA,Königshoff M,Howell DC,McAnulty RJ,Das A,Thorley AJ,Tetley TD,Eickelberg O,Chambers RC

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous disease of unknown etiology that primarily affects the lungs. The etiology remains unclear; however, environmental, genetic, ethnic, and familial factors probably modify expression of the disease. As an example, African Americans are at greater risk of mortality and morbidity th...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Martin WJ 2nd,Iannuzzi MC,Gail DB,Peavy HH

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the reliability and the minimal clinically important differences (MCID) for FVC% predicted in the Scleroderma Lung Study I and II. METHODS:Using data from SLS I and II (N=300), we evaluated the test-retest reliability for FVC% predicted (FVC%; screening vs. baseline) using intra-class correlation ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kafaja S,Clements PJ,Wilhalme H,Tseng CH,Furst DE,Kim GH,Goldin J,Volkmann ER,Roth MD,Tashkin DP,Khanna D

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have undertaken this retrospective study to determine factors associated with in-hospital mortality and morbidity in 80 adult patients with severe Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis. Clinical characteristics at admission of patients infected with susceptible (n = 54) and nonsusceptible (n = 17) strains to penicill...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Auburtin M,Porcher R,Bruneel F,Scanvic A,Trouillet JL,Bédos JP,Régnier B,Wolff M

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:Effective treatment of tuberculosis requires adherence to a minimum of 6 months treatment with multiple drugs. To improve adherence and cure rates, directly observed therapy is recommended for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. We compared treatment outcomes among all culture-positive patients treated for active...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Jasmer RM,Seaman CB,Gonzalez LC,Kawamura LM,Osmond DH,Daley CL

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand strategies for recruiting and maintaining lung volume in acute lung injury, we examined relationships between steady-state lung volume and cumulative cyclic recruitment/derecruitment volume history and the quasi-static pressure-volume curve, in an animal saline lavage lung injury model. Small-volu...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Downie JM,Nam AJ,Simon BA

更新日期：2004-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Colonization of lower airways by Staphylococcus aureus is a risk factor for the development of ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis (VAT) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). However, little is known about the virulence factors of methicillin-sensitive and -resistant S. aureus (MSSA and MRSA) that ma...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Stulik L,Malafa S,Hudcova J,Rouha H,Henics BZ,Craven DE,Sonnevend AM,Nagy E

更新日期：2014-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the effect of smoking cessation on the airway inflammatory process present in nonatopic subjects with chronic bronchitis, we obtained bronchial biopsies from nine current smokers and seven exsmokers, all with symptoms of chronic bronchitis at the time of the study, and from seven healthy nonsmoking subj...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Turato G,Di Stefano A,Maestrelli P,Mapp CE,Ruggieri MP,Roggeri A,Fabbri LM,Saetta M

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: The bHLH (basic helix-loop-helix) transcription factor TWIST1 (Twist-related protein 1) controls cell proliferation and differentiation in tissue development and disease processes. Recently, endothelial TWIST1 has been linked to pulmonary hypertension (PH) and endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition, yet the ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Fan Y,Gu X,Zhang J,Sinn K,Klepetko W,Wu N,Foris V,Solymosi P,Kwapiszewska G,Kuebler WM

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Segmental bronchoprovocation (SBP) with allergen was used in an attempt to study eosinophils recruited to the airway 24 h after challenge. Unexpectedly, in the first four patients, neutrophils (rather than eosinophils) were recruited in the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluids, and we hypothesized that the allergen ext...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Hunt LW,Gleich GJ,Ohnishi T,Weiler DA,Mansfield ES,Kita H,Sur S

更新日期：1994-06-01 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: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：:We have previously reported differential impairment of pulmonary and systemic vascular contractility in hyperdynamic sepsis. The objectives of this study were (1) to determine whether the magnitude of this phenomenon depends on the control group chosen for comparison, and (2) to examine the role of nitric oxide (NO) i...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Yaghi A,Paterson NA,McCormack DG

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal immune system discriminates between potentially harmful and harmless foreign proteins. The basis for this differential response may be related to the conditions of antigen presentation by antigen-presenting cells, as determined by their phenotype or activation state. How these conditions affect specific...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Smith KM,Eaton AD,Finlayson LM,Garside P

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is a common indoor and outdoor air pollutant that may induce deterioration of respiratory health. In this study the effects of repeated daily exposure to NO2 on airway antioxidant status, inflammatory cell and mediator responses, and lung function were examined. Healthy nonsmoking subjects were ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Blomberg A,Krishna MT,Helleday R,Söderberg M,Ledin MC,Kelly FJ,Frew AJ,Holgate ST,Sandström T

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cost effectiveness of asthma care is the first topic of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Task Force Report on the Cost Effectiveness, Quality of Care, and Financing of Asthma Care. This working group characterized the role of health economics in understanding optimal asthma management strategie...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Sullivan S,Elixhauser A,Buist AS,Luce BR,Eisenberg J,Weiss KB

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this prospective study was to detect subjects in the general population with objective signs of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma at an early stage. This was done by means of a two-stage protocol involving screening and a subsequent 2-yr monitoring of all subjects with positive results ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： van den Boom G,van Schayck CP,van Möllen MP,Tirimanna PR,den Otter JJ,van Grunsven PM,Buitendijk MJ,van Herwaarden CL,van Weel C

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-1beta and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha released from alveolar macrophages (AM) in pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) are important in host defense against mycobacterial infection. Nitric oxide (NO) production is enhanced in AM of TB patients. We examined whether NO was implicated in (IL)-1beta and TNF-a...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kuo HP,Wang CH,Huang KS,Lin HC,Yu CT,Liu CY,Lu LC

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Air pollution is a known asthma trigger and has been associated with short-term asthma symptoms, airway inflammation, decreased lung function, and reduced response to asthma rescue medications. OBJECTIVES:To assess a causal relationship between air pollution and childhood asthma using data that address tempo...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Nishimura KK,Galanter JM,Roth LA,Oh SS,Thakur N,Nguyen EA,Thyne S,Farber HJ,Serebrisky D,Kumar R,Brigino-Buenaventura E,Davis A,LeNoir MA,Meade K,Rodriguez-Cintron W,Avila PC,Borrell LN,Bibbins-Domingo K,Rodriguez-San

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced diaphragm contractility has been described in normal subjects after whole body endurance exercise, and it indicates low frequency fatigue (LFF); it is unknown whether LFF is of clinical importance. We therefore studied the effect of treadmill exercise to exhaustion on diaphragm contractility in six patients wi...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Polkey MI,Kyroussis D,Keilty SE,Hamnegard CH,Mills GH,Green M,Moxham J

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00