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Expanded CURB-65: A new score system predicts severity of community-acquired pneumonia with superior efficiency [PDF]

, 2016
Aim of this study was to develop a new simpler and more effective severity score for communityacquired pneumonia (CAP) patients. A total of 1640 consecutive hospitalized CAP patients in Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University were included ...
Dong, Xiao Jun, Falcone, Marco, Farcomeni, Alessio, Liu, Jin Liang, Lu, Rui Qing, Luo, Shu Ya, Shi, Ling Xian, Venditti, Mario, Wu, Xue Jie, Xu, Feng, Zhao, Ying Li, Zhou, Hui   +11 more
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Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis: Challenges of a Complex Disease

Canadian Respiratory Journal, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is a complex interstitial lung disease caused by chronic inhalation of a wide variety of antigens in susceptible and sensitized individuals, commonly associated with an occupational exposure. An impressive number of inciting antigens causing hypersensitivity pneumonitis have been found to cover a wide range of ...
Diana Calaras, Aliona David, Eirini Vasarmidi, Katerina Antoniou, Alexandru Corlateanu, Andrea S. Melani   +5 more
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Alveolite alérgica extrínseca com expressão imunológica atípica Extrinsic allergic alveolitis with an atypical immune expression

Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia, 2009
A alveolite alérgica extrínseca e a sarcoidose são ambas doenças granulomatosas pulmonares que se caracterizam pela presença de granulomas não necrotizantes. Ambas apresentam alterações típicas no lavado broncoalveolar, com relações CD4/CD8 opostas.
Teresa Costa, Cidália Rodrigues, Ana Arrobas   +2 more
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Immune responses to airborne fungi and non-invasive airway diseases. [PDF]

, 2014
Inhalation of fungal particles is a ubiquitous way of exposure to microorganisms during human life; however, this exposure may promote or exacerbate respiratory diseases only in particular exposure conditions and human genetic background.
Niculita-Hirzel, Hélène, Roger, Thierry, Vacher, Gaëlle   +2 more
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Pulmonary hypertension and lung transplantation waitlist outcomes for hypersensitivity pneumonitis

JHLT Open
Background: Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is an interstitial lung disease that can progress to pulmonary hypertension which increases mortality. The European Society of Cardiology recently reduced the diagnostic criteria for precapillary pulmonary ...
Michael J. Nicholson, DO, Zehra Dhanani, MBBS, Shameek Gayen, MD   +2 more
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Significance of specific IgG against sensitizing antigens in extrinsic allergic alveolitis: Serological methods in EAA

Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia, 2011
The aim of our study is to find differences in IgG in sera of potentially exposed and nonexposed individuals and to detect differences in concentrations of specific serum IgG among subjects with and without EAA.Seventy-two patients being followed for ...
M. Sterclova, M. Vasakova, M. Metlicka
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Nekazarien birika. Gipuzkoako kasu-serie baten ikerketa erretrospektiboa eta errebisio bibliografikoa [PDF]

, 2017
[EUS] Nekazarien birika (NB) Gipuzkoan, azpidiagnostikatuta dagoen gaixotasuna da, bere prebalentzia oso baxua izanik (1,12 /100.000koa).
Sánchez Urrestarazu, Maddi
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T-bet controls severity of hypersensitivity pneumonitis [PDF]

, 2011
Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis (HP) is an interstitial lung disease that develops following repeated exposure to inhaled environmental antigens. The disease is characterized by alveolitis, granuloma formation and in some patients' fibrosis.
Hossam Abdelsamed, Meena Desai, Stephanie C Nance, Elizabeth A Fitzpatrick   +3 more
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Immunology of occupational lung diseases caused by dust: an overview [PDF]

, 1986
The lungs are exposed to numerous injurious substances.Such injury may be the result of immunological or non-immunological mechanisms. The lung clears itself of inhaled particles by means of ciliated cells lining the airways and the macrophages.The ...
Krishnan, S, Kumaraswami, V, Thiruvengadam, K V   +2 more
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Prognostic indicators in extrinsic allergic alveolitis

, 2013
Background: Extrinsic allergic alveolitis belongs among the most often diagnosed interstitial lung diseases.
M. Sterclova, M. Vašáková, P. Paluch
semanticscholar   +1 more source