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PAS staining of bronchoalveolar lavage cells for differential diagnosis of interstital lung disease
Diagnostic Pathology, 2009 Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is a useful diagnostic tool in interstitial lunge diseases (ILD). However, differential cell counts are often non specific and immunocytochemistry is time consuming.
Zabel Peter, Hauber Hans P
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Effects of bioaerosol exposure on work-related symptoms among Swiss sawmill workers [PDF]
, 2018 Objective: Exposure to bioaerosols in the occupational environment of sawmills could be associated with a wide range of health effects, in particular respiratory impairment, allergy and organic dust toxic syndrome.
Charrière, N. +3 more
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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 +11 more
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Journal of Medical Primatology, Volume 53, Issue 1, February 2024.Abstract In recent times, global viral outbreaks and diseases, such as COVID‐19 (SARS‐CoV‐2), Zika (ZIKV), monkeypox (MPOX), Ebola (EBOV), and Marburg (MARV), have been extensively documented. Swiftly deciphering the mechanisms underlying disease pathogenesis and devising vaccines or therapeutic interventions to curtail these outbreaks stand as ...
Taeho Kwon
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Interstitial lung disease in Malta [PDF]
, 2012 Aim: To establish the prevalence, management and response to treatment of interstitial lung disease (ILD) in Malta. Methodology: The personal files of 102 living and 26 deceased patients with ILD under the care of 4 respiratory physicians were reviewed ...
Fenech, Manwel +2 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 +5 more
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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 +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 +2 more
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Pulmonary hypertension and lung transplantation waitlist outcomes for hypersensitivity pneumonitis
JHLT OpenBackground: 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 +2 more
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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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