Pulmonary reflexes after human heart-lung transplantation.

abstract：:Specific targeting of patients with a previous asthma hospitalisation could be more focused if predictors could be identified. This study was an observational retrospective analysis using ridge and linear multivariate regression analysis. Patient asthma management data were extracted from the hospital and general prac...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Salamzadeh J,Wong IC,Hosker HS,Patel MG,Chrystyn H

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neurocognitive impairment has been described in COPD patients, but little is known about its relationship with physical functioning and health-related quality of life (HRQL) in this chronically ill patient group. METHODS:301 stable COPD patients completed the Trail Making Test (TMT-A: psychomotor speed and ...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Schure MB,Borson S,Nguyen HQ,Trittschuh EH,Thielke SM,Pike KC,Adams SG,Fan VS

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) according to guidelines of today seems considerably higher than has been reported also in recent literature. AIM:To estimate the prevalence of COPD as defined by British Thoracic Society (BTS) criteria and the recent global initiative for chroni...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Lundbäck B,Lindberg A,Lindström M,Rönmark E,Jonsson AC,Jönsson E,Larsson LG,Andersson S,Sandström T,Larsson K,Obstructive Lung Disease in Northern Sweden Studies.

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are often characterised by a range of characteristic co-morbidities that interfere with their pulmonary disease. In addition to a mere association with co-morbidities, a complex pathophysiological interaction and mutual augmentation occurs between COPD and its...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Doehner W,Haeusler KG,Endres M,Anker SD,MacNee W,Lainscak M

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy and safety of salmeterol/fluticasone propionate combination product (SFC) with fluticasone propionate (FP) plus oral montelukast (M) over 12 weeks in symptomatic asthma patients. The study was a multinational, randomised, double-blind, double-dummy, parallel-group desi...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Ringdal N,Eliraz A,Pruzinec R,Weber HH,Mulder PG,Akveld M,Bateman ED,International Study Group.

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (PPFE) has been described in hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) yet its functional implications are unclear. Combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema (CPFE) has occasionally been described in never-smokers with HP, but epidemiological data regarding its prevalence is sparse. ...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Jacob J,Odink A,Brun AL,Macaluso C,de Lauretis A,Kokosi M,Devaraj A,Desai S,Renzoni E,Wells AU

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 56-year-old female patient, developing ALK-negative anaplastic T cell lymphoma 7 years after the diagnosis of sarcoidosis with clinical and histopathological features of tuberculosis has been presented. We herein present concurrent occurrence of the sarcoidosis, lymphoma and tuberculosis along with the confusing fin...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Tufan A,Ranci O,Sungur A,Topeli A,Haznedaroglu I,Cöplü L

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to mushroom spores may cause many respiratory allergic diseases, however, there has been no serial study in a mushroom factory to address this problem. The aim of this study was to investigate the serial changes in respiratory allergy and the incidence of hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) in mushroom workers....

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Tanaka H,Saikai T,Sugawara H,Tsunematsu K,Takeya I,Koba H,Matsuura A,Imai K,Abe S

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the UK approximately 1.2 million people have COPD with around 25-40% being underweight and 35% have a severely low fat-free mass index. Measuring their body mass index is recommended and Health care professionals should endeavour to ensure that COPD patients are achieving their nutritional requirements. A narrative...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Keogh E,Mark Williams E

更新日期：2020-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability to exercise is an important clinical outcome in COPD, and the improvement in exercise capacity is recognized to be an important goal in the management of COPD. Therefore, since the current interest in the use of bronchodilators in COPD is gradually shifting towards the dual bronchodilation, we ca...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Calzetta L,Ora J,Cavalli F,Rogliani P,O'Donnell DE,Cazzola M

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxemic patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are at risk of carbon dioxide (CO(2)) retention during oxygen therapy and hypercapnia in COPD is associated with an ominous prognosis. Rebreathing with oxygen mask is possible in practice and possibly affects CO(2) retention due to an increased inspi...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Fremault A,Silva M,Beaucage F,Berckmans D,Decramer M

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthcare payers are faced with the need to allocate finite resources to maximize population health. To assist in decision-making, healthcare payers are increasingly using health outcomes information and economic analyses. Healthcare payers are often under pressure to make early decisions (around the time of product ...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Levine M,Taylor R,Ryan M,Sculpher M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of lateral body position on gas exchange in patients with unilateral pleural effusion, with special reference to the influence of effusion volume. Thirty consecutive patients with unilateral pleural effusion, without evidence of parenchymal pulmonary involvement, ...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Romero S,Martín C,Hernández L,Arriero JM,Benito N,Gil J

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary arterial capacitance (PAC) is a strong hemodynamic predictor of outcomes in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH). Its value across subgroups of race/ethnicity, sex, and PH etiologies is unclear. We hypothesized that the association of PAC with outcomes would not vary across World Health Organi...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Mayfield JJ,Papolos A,Vasti E,De Marco T,Tison GH

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current asthma management guidelines state that where a patient is receiving a low to moderate dose of inhaled corticosteroids and is still experiencing symptoms the dose of corticosteroid should be increased and, if necessary, a long-acting bronchodilator should be added. Many studies have now shown that the addition...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Barnes PJ

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fluticasone furoate/vilanterol (FF/VI) is an inhaled corticosteroid/long-acting beta2-agonist (ICS/LABA), recently approved as once-daily maintenance therapy for COPD. We compared the lung function effects of FF/VI with those of twice-daily fluticasone propionate/salmeterol (FP/SAL). METHODS:Three 12 week s...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Dransfield MT,Feldman G,Korenblat P,LaForce CF,Locantore N,Pistolesi M,Watkins ML,Crim C,Martinez FJ

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The discrepancy rates of drug susceptibility testing (DST) results between solid and liquid media have been reported to range from 2.4 to 7.4% for isoniazid. Most isolate with isoniazid DST discrepancies between solid and liquid media test as susceptible on solid medium and resistant in liquid medium, howe...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Kim S,Lee H,Park HY,Jeon K,Huh HJ,Lee NY,Jeong BH

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary function testing is not feasible in many adults with intellectual disabilities, because of difficulties with understanding and cooperation. AIMS:To investigate feasibility, repeatability and reproducibility of measuring airway resistance using the interrupter technique (MicroRint) in people aged 5...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Pouls KP,Alsema LE,van der Laan H,Evenhuis HM,Penning C

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/PURPOSE:The diagnosis of patients with pulmonary infiltrates and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection remains a challenge. In current clinical practice the gold standard for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) diagnosis remains the identification of the organism in bronco alveolar lavage (BAL) usi...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Salerno D,Mushatt D,Myers L,Zhuang Y,de la Rua N,Calderon EJ,Welsh DA

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven patients with fibrosing alveolitis who failed to respond to prednisolone and cyclophosphamide and were deteriorating, were treated with cyclosporin A. An initial favourable response was seen but was not maintained. When compared to a control population, matched for the extremely severe disease present in the tre...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Alton EW,Johnson M,Turner-Warwick M

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Misdiagnoses are inevitable when working hypotheses of asthma/COPD of General Practitioners (GPs) are not checked by spirometry. To reduce misdiagnoses, Asthma/COPD-support services (AC-services) offer support by performing spirometry assessed together with written medical history by consulting pulmonologist...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Lucas AE,Smeenk FJ,Smeele IJ,van Schayck OP

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anti-CADM-140 antibody (anti-CADM-140), also referred to as anti-melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 (MDA5) antibody, is a myositis-specific antibody identified in the sera of patients with clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis (C-ADM) and is associated with a worse prognosis in dermatomyositis-associ...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Tanizawa K,Handa T,Nakashima R,Kubo T,Hosono Y,Watanabe K,Aihara K,Oga T,Chin K,Nagai S,Mimori T,Mishima M

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with asthma, exercise-induced symptoms are well recognized and frequently limiting. Currently available beta 2-receptor agonists have a short duration of action and breakthrough symptoms may occur. We studied the efficacy of the recently developed long acting inhaled beta 2-agonist salmeterol with respect ...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Newnham DM,Ingram CG,Earnshaw J,Palmer JB,Dhillon DP

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) in the postoperative course of cardiac surgery patients remains questionable. In this prospective study, we examined the effect of different levels of PEEP on arterial oxygenation, SvO2 and PvO2 values, and on haemodynamic indices, during the early postoperative peri...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Michalopoulos A,Anthi A,Rellos K,Geroulanos S

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolide antibiotics have anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory properties in addition to antibacterial activity. Until recently, only a small number of studies evaluating macrolides in patients with non-cystic fibrosis (CF) bronchiectasis had been published. These were open-label, uncontrolled, short-duration studi...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Haworth CS,Bilton D,Elborn JS

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human DNase I (rhDNase) has been shown to improve pulmonary function in patients treated for up to 6 months. A cohort of 52 cystic fibrosis patients with a FVC > 40% predicted were enrolled into an open label study in order to evaluate longer-term effects of rhDNase. They received 2.5 mg rhDNase twice dail...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Shah PL,Scott SF,Geddes DM,Hodson ME

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary rehabilitation is very effective in improving exercise capacity, dyspnea and quality of life in the small group of patients with moderate to severe COPD. Given that little is known about exercise training in the large group of patients with mild to moderate COPD, we assessed the effectiveness of an...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Fastenau A,van Schayck OC,Winkens B,Aretz K,Gosselink R,Muris JW

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research has found conflictive results regarding the benefits of inspiratory muscle training (IMT) for cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Also, involvement of postural stability is a rising concern in chronic lung diseases but its role in CF patients is poorly understood. Our aim was to investigate the ...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Zeren M,Cakir E,Gurses HN

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Up to 40% of patients seen in a cough clinic have unexplained chronic cough. The long term outcome of these patients is uncertain. OBJECTIVE:To determine the long-term outcome in patients diagnosed with unexplained chronic cough. METHODS:We have performed a longitudinal study of symptoms, airway inflamma...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Yousaf N,Montinero W,Birring SS,Pavord ID

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with congestive heart failure and Cheyne-Stokes respiration have a low arterial oxygen saturation, especially during sleep, which can be increased by breathing oxygen. Chronic alterations in blood gases are known to modulate the hypercapnic ventilatory response (HCVR). We therefore evaluated whether the HCVR ...

journal_title：Respiratory medicine

authors： Andreas S,von zur Mühlen F,Stevens J,Kreuzer H

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00