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Respiratory Effects Induced by Occupational Exposure to Formaldehyde among Health Care staff

International Journal of Occupational Hygiene, 2015
Formaldehyde is a common indoor pollutant with irritant properties. The present case control study was undertaken among 37 exposed staff with formaldehyde and 19 non exposed (referent) ones to study the acute and chronic effects of it in two educational ...
HODA RAHIMIFARD, HAMIDREZA HEIDARI, MARZIYEH ABBASINIA, MEHDI NORUZI, MOHSEN MAHDINIA, YALDA ARAST   +5 more
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Correlating Pulmonary Hemodynamics With HP 129Xe Dissolved‐Phase MRSI in a Controlled Porcine Intervention Study

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Pulmonary hypertension is related to a 1‐year mortality ranging from < 5% to > 20% in low‐ and high‐risk groups. Right heart catheterization is the diagnostic gold standard, associated with a 1.1% rate of severe adverse events, posing the need for a non‐invasive diagnostic tool.
Markus Phillip Andersen, Mattias Hedegaard Kristensen, Esben Søvsø Szocska Hansen, Rolf F. Schulte, Mohsen Redda, Uffe Kjærgaard, Michael Vaeggemose, Christoffer Laustsen   +7 more
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Respiratory Effects Induced by Occupational Exposure to Formaldehyde among Health Care staff

International Journal of Occupational Hygiene, 2013
Formaldehyde is a common indoor pollutant with irritant properties. The present case control study was undertaken among 37 exposed staff with formaldehyde and 19 non exposed (referent) ones to study the acute and chronic effects of it in two educational ...
Mehdi Noroozei, Marziyeh Abbasinia, Hamidreza Heidari, Hoda Rahimifard, Mohsen Mahdinia, Yalda Arast   +5 more
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Factors Influencing the Incidence of Complications After Thoracoscopic Pulmonary Resection in Elderly Patients

Xiehe Yixue Zazhi
ObjectiveTo investigate the influencing factors of postoperative complications following thoracoscopic lung resection in elderly patients and to provide a scientific basis for developing preoperative prehabilitation strategies for high-risk elderly ...
ZHANG Huiling, ZHENG Zhibo, LIANG Naixin, ZHAO Xiaoyi, LIU Shufen, WANG Riwang, LIU Lunxu, CHEN Lixia, ZHANG Lu   +8 more
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On‐Time Meal Delivery Assisted by Drone Resupply

Naval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ensuring timely delivery is crucial with the increasing competition in online meal delivery services. This requires the industry to adopt new technologies and the corresponding operational models, including the use of drones. Concerning the desired features of meal delivery, such as safety and reliability, we propose an operational model that ...
Wenqian Liu, Lindong Liu, Xiangtong Qi
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison between peak expiratory flow rate and forced expiratory volume in one second in the evaluation of children suspected to have asthma.

Iranian journal of allergy, asthma, and immunology, 2004
This study was conducted to evaluate whether forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) for the diagnosis of bronchial reactivity by means of the free-running exercise test and bronchodilator inhalation, could be appropriately replaced by simple measurements of peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) in children.We studied 108 referred symptomatic children ...
Mohammad Gharagozlou, Farshid Kompani, Masoud Movahedi   +2 more
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Emphysema in an 11‐month‐old boy with alpha‐1 antitrypsin deficiency

Pediatric Investigation, EarlyView.
Pediatric development of emphysema in Alpha‐1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (A1ATD) has been rarely described. In this case report, we document an 11‐month boy with A1ATD phenotype PiZZ with basilar centrilobular emphysema, the earliest such documented case.
Irvin Yi, Rachel Williams, Leela Chandrasekar, Saif Al‐Qatarneh   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lung function improvement on triple modulators: high-resolution, nationwide data from the Danish Cystic Fibrosis Cohort

ERJ Open Research
Background People living with cystic fibrosis in Denmark had early, universal access to triple modulator treatment with elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor.
Christian Leo-Hansen, Daniel Faurholt-Jepsen, Tavs Qvist, Christine Højte, Bibi U. Nielsen, Thomas Bryrup, Esben H. Henriksen, Terese Katzenstein, Marianne Skov, Inger H.M. Mathiesen, Majbritt Jeppesen, Søren Jensen-Fangel, Hanne V. Olesen, Frederik Fouirnaies Buchvald, Kim Gjerum Nielsen, Espen Jimenez-Solem, Christian Ritz, Tacjana Pressler, Mette F. Olsen, the TransformCF Study Group   +19 more
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Innovative technologies for gait rehabilitation in incomplete spinal cord injury: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

PM&R, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective This systematic review and meta‐analysis aimed to synthesize the current evidence on the efficacy of various technological interventions for gait rehabilitation in adults with incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI). Literature survey MEDLINE (accessed by PubMed), Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Cochrane CENTRAL),
Emerson de Carvalho, Thainara Cruz da Rosa, Maira Jaqueline da Cunha, Aline S. Pagnussat   +3 more
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Diagnosis of Portal Hypertension: Advancing Towards Non‐Invasive Solutions

Portal Hypertension &Cirrhosis, EarlyView.
This review systematically summarizes a full spectrum of non‐invasive diagnostic approaches for portal hypertension (PH), including imaging modalities, elastography, serum biomarkers, composite scoring systems and endoscopic ultrasound‐guided portal pressure gradient (EUS‐PPG), and analyzes their performance across different liver disease etiologies ...
Lijia Yin, Huikuan Chu, Ling Yang
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