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Increased Risk of Cholesteatoma in Individuals With Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency: A Cohort Study. [PDF]

open access: yesLaryngoscope
Patients with AATD had a 3.6‐fold increased risk of cholesteatoma surgery (HR: 3.62) compared to controls. These findings suggest that AATD may contribute to the development of cholesteatoma. ABSTRACT Objective To estimate the risk of cholesteatoma in patients with alpha‐1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) compared to the general population using time‐to ...
Ali A, Ravn HA, Dahl M, Djurhuus BD.
europepmc   +2 more sources

AASLD practice guidance on drug, herbal, and dietary supplement–induced liver injury

open access: yes, 2022
Hepatology, EarlyView.
Robert J. Fontana   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Case-finding for alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency in Kazakh patients with COPD

open access: yesMultidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, 2017
Background Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) is an under-diagnosed condition in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The aim of this study was to screen for AATD in Kazakh patients with COPD using dried blood spot specimens ...
Ardak Zhumagaliyeva   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Liver Transplantation for Advanced Liver Disease with Alpha-1antitrypsin Deficiency [PDF]

open access: yes, 1980
ALPHA-1-antitrypsin deficiency associated with chronic obstructive airway disease was recognized in 1963 by Laurell and Ericksson.1 In 1969, Sharp2 described the first cases of alpha-1-antitrypsin-deficiency disease in children with cirrhosis. Since then,
Allan G. Redeker   +26 more
core   +1 more source

REVERSAL OF HEPATIC ALPHA-1-ANTITRYPSIN DEPOSITION AFTER PORTACAVAL SHUNT [PDF]

open access: yes, 1983
End-to-side portacaval shunts were carried out in three children with the liver disease of alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency and complications of portal hypertension. Their clinical courses have been stable for 31/2 to almost 7 years.
Aagenaes   +17 more
core   +1 more source

Clarifying the relationship between pulmonary langerhans cell histiocytosis and Alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency

open access: yesOrphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2021
Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis (PLCH) is a rare, smoking related, progressive diffuse cystic lung disease that occurs primarily in smokers. The aim of this study was to determine if there was an increase in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficient alleles ...
Cormac McCarthy   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Leukocyte adhesion and recruitment, and alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency: a report from ATS 2001, May 18-23, San Francisco [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The program at this year's American Thoracic Society international conference included over 300 scientific and clinical symposia. In this report I have reviewed the data presented on two important areas of lung inflammation, namely leukocyte recruitment ...
Woolhouse Ian
core   +2 more sources

Utility of routine screening for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency in patients with bronchiectasis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) is a cause of bronchiectasis. Guidelines for bronchiectasis from the British Thoracic Society do not recommend to routinely test patients for AATD. In contrast, guidelines for AATD recommend routine screening.
Carreto, Luis   +9 more
core   +3 more sources

PROINFLAMMATORY CYTOKINE PROFILE IN PATIENTS WITH DIFFERENT ALPHA-1-ANTITRYPSIN PHENOTYPES

open access: yesМедицинская иммунология, 2016
Alpha-1-antitrypsin (A1AT) exerts a wide spectrum of protective effects, being focused on reduction of secondary injury in inflammation. Moreover, A1AT inhibits some serine proteases, and down-regulates production of proinflammatory cytokines.
M. Yu. Pervakova   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency: Principles of Care

open access: yesActa Médica Portuguesa, 2020
Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency is an autosomal co-dominant inherited disorder that results in decreased circulating levels of alpha-1 antitrypsin (also known as alpha-1 proteinase inhibitor) and predisposes affected individuals to early onset lung and ...
Joana F. Rodrigues   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

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