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The availability, cost, and affordability of essential medicines for asthma and COPD in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review

The Lancet Global Health, 2022
Summary: Background: Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) cause a considerable burden of morbidity and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Marie Stolbrink, BMBCh, Helen Thomson, MBChB, Ruth M Hadfield, PhD, Obianuju B Ozoh, PhD, Rebecca Nantanda, PhD, Shamanthi Jayasooriya, PhD, Brian Allwood, PhD, David M G Halpin, ProfDPhil, Sundeep Salvi, PhD, Maria Montes de Oca, ProfPhD, Kevin Mortimer, ProfPhD, Sarah Rylance, PhD   +11 more
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NOVEL INSIGHTS INTO CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD): AN OVERVIEW [PDF]

European Medical Journal Respiratory, 2014
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is mainly caused by smoking and presents with shortness of breath that is progressive and irreversible. It is a worldwide health problem and the fourth most common cause of chronic disability and mortality ...
Sukhwinder Singh Sohal, Mathew Suji Eapen, Shakti Dhar Shukla, Jo-Maree Courtney,, Malik Quasir Mahmood, Eugene Haydn Walters   +5 more
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Cardiac Function in Brain Death, Usage of Advanced Hemodynamic Monitoring

Archives of Anesthesia and Critical Care, 2022
Background: This study used advanced hemodynamic monitoring along with simultaneous echocardiography to assess donated heart function of brain death patients using advanced hemodynamic monitoring and its efficacy in organ donation.
Alireza Jahangirifard, Fateme Monjazebi, Alireza Ilbeigi, Nafiseh Naghdipour, Zargham Hossein Ahmadi, Farahnaz Sadegh Beigee, Sanaz Dehghani   +6 more
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Chronic lung diseases: entangled in extracellular matrix

European Respiratory Review, 2022
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is the scaffold that provides structure and support to all organs, including the lung; however, it is also much more than this. The ECM provides biochemical and biomechanical cues to cells that reside or transit through this micro-environment, instructing their responses.
Janette K. Burgess, Martin C. Harmsen
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Injury triggers fascia fibroblast collective cell migration to drive scar formation through N-cadherin

Nature Communications, 2020
Extensive scars develop in deep wounds as opposed to superficial wounds but it is unclear why. Here, the authors use live imaging of physiologic wounds and scars formed ex vivo to show that fascia fibroblasts upregulate N-cadherin allowing coordinated ...
Dongsheng Jiang, Simon Christ, Donovan Correa-Gallegos, Pushkar Ramesh, Shruthi Kalgudde Gopal, Juliane Wannemacher, Christoph H. Mayr, Valerio Lupperger, Qing Yu, Haifeng Ye, Martin Mück-Häusl, Vijayanand Rajendran, Li Wan, Juan Liu, Ursula Mirastschijski, Thomas Volz, Carsten Marr, Herbert B. Schiller, Yuval Rinkevich   +18 more
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Autophagy in chronic lung disease

, 2020
The development of chronic lung disease occurs as a consequence of multiple cellular events that involve an initial insult which often leads to the development of chronic inflammation, and the dysregulation of cellular proliferation and cell death mechanisms.
Alexandra C, Racanelli, Augustine M K, Choi, Mary E, Choi   +2 more
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Correlating changes in lung function with patient outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a pooled analysis. [PDF]

, 2011
Background Relationships between improvements in lung function and other clinical outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are not documented extensively.
Pinault, Gregory, Nedelman Jerry, Jones, Paul W, James F Donohue, Jones, PW, Donohue, JF, Steve Pascoe, Pinault Gregory, Pascoe Steve, Donohue James F, Lassen Cheryl, Pinault, G, Pascoe, S, Nedelman, J, Pascoe, Steve, Jerry Nedelman, Paul W Jones, Lassen, Cheryl, Jones Paul W, Cheryl Lassen, Gregory Pinault, Nedelman, Jerry, Donohue, James F, Lassen, C   +23 more
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Relationship between Angiogenic Squamous Dysplasia and Bronchogenic Carcinoma in Patients Undergoing White Light Bronchoscopy

Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2012
OBJECTIVE: To better understand the characteristic morphology of angiogenic squamous dysplasia (ASD) and its association with different types of common bronchogenic carcinomas using routine white light bronchoscopy.
Shirin Karimi, Forouzan Mohammadi, Kian Khodadad, Makan Sadr, Leila Seyfollahi, Mohammad Reza Masjedi   +5 more
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Pulmonary Thromboembolism Followed by Deep Vein Thrombosis In A Young Man With G6PD Deficiency After ChAd0x1 nCoV-19 Vaccine Administration

Vaccine Research, 2021
Recently the term vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) used for individual which have thrombotic phenomena followed by ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AstraZeneca) administration against SARS coronavirus.
Arda Kiani, Atefeh Abedini, Zahra Sadat Rouhani , Mohammadhossein Banitorfi, Amirhossein Saeidi, Hamidreza Zaheri   +5 more
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Chronic or Recurrent Invasive Fungal Sinusitis after COVID-19 Infection

Otorhinolaryngology and Facial Plastic Surgery, 2022
Background: During the COVID-19 epidemic, we have witnessed numerous manifestations and complications after contracting this disease. One of these complications in patients with COVID-19 is the increased risk of invasive fungal infections due to the ...
Jahangir Ghorbani, Nasim Raad, Mahboobeh Karimi Galougahi, Amrollah Dehghani Firouzabadi   +3 more
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