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Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency [PDF]

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2001
α-1 antitrypsin is synthesised in the liver and protects lung alveolar tissues from destruction by neutrophil elastase. α-1 antitrypsin deficiency is a common autosomal recessive condition (1:1600 to 1:1800) in which liver disease results from retention of abnormal polymerised α-1 antitrypsin in the endoplasmic reticulum of hepatocytes, and emphysema ...
Primhak, R.A., Tanner, M.S.
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Liver Transplantation for Advanced Liver Disease with Alpha-1antitrypsin Deficiency [PDF]

, 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, Anonymous, Brand, Cox, Eisen, Fagerhol, Gastel, Gerhard P. J. Schröter, Hirschberger, Jacobsson, Janoff, John M. Hood, Kueppers, Kuhlenschmidt, Laurell, Lawrence J. Koep, Odièvre, Putnam, Richard Weil, Robert L. Peters, Roy, Rynbrandt, Sharp, Sharp, Sharp, Thomas E. Starzl, Tálamo   +26 more
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Case-finding for alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency in Kazakh patients with COPD

Multidisciplinary 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, Stefania Ottaviani, Timm Greulich, Marina Gorrini, Claus Vogelmeier, Ludmila Karazhanova, Gulmira Nurgazina, Annalisa DeSilvestri, Victor Kotke, Valentina Barzon, Michele Zorzetto, Angelo Corsico, Ilaria Ferrarotti   +12 more
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AASLD practice guidance on drug, herbal, and dietary supplement–induced liver injury

, 2022
Hepatology, EarlyView.
Robert J. Fontana, Iris Liou, Adrian Reuben, Ayako Suzuki, M. Isabel Fiel, William Lee, Victor Navarro   +6 more
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Clarifying the relationship between pulmonary langerhans cell histiocytosis and Alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency

Orphanet 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, Emmanuelle Bugnet, Amira Benattia, Michael P. Keane, Benoit Vedie, Gwenaël Lorillon, Abdellatif Tazi   +6 more
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REVERSAL OF HEPATIC ALPHA-1-ANTITRYPSIN DEPOSITION AFTER PORTACAVAL SHUNT [PDF]

, 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, Bell, Bismuth, Fisher, Hercz, Hood, Jamieson, Kuhlenschmidt, Lawford, Putnam, Sharp, Sotos, Starzl, Starzl, Starzl, Starzl, Starzl, Starzl   +17 more
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PROINFLAMMATORY CYTOKINE PROFILE IN PATIENTS WITH DIFFERENT ALPHA-1-ANTITRYPSIN PHENOTYPES

Медицинская 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, S. V. Lapin, E. A. Surkova, O. Yu. Tkachenko, A. I. Budkova, V. I. Guseva, O. N. Titova, V. L. Emanuel, Areg A. Totolian   +8 more
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Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency: Principles of Care

Acta 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, Alexandra Mineiro, António Reis, David G. Ventura, Fernando Fernandez-Llimos, Filipa Costa, Joana Gomes, José Manuel Silva, Paulo Lopes, Carlos Robalo Cordeiro   +9 more
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Leukocyte adhesion and recruitment, and alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency: a report from ATS 2001, May 18-23, San Francisco [PDF]

, 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
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Diabetic retinopathy: could the alpha-1 antitrypsin be a therapeutic option? [PDF]

, 2014
Diabetic retinopathy is one of the most important causes of blindness. The underlying mechanisms of this disease include inflammatory changes and remodeling processes of the extracellular-matrix (ECM) leading to pericyte and vascular endothelial cell ...
Chuluyan, Hector Eduardo, Gallo, Juan Eduardo Maria, Ortiz, Gustavo Alfredo, Salica, Juan Pablo   +3 more
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