JNK activation is responsible for mucus overproduction in smoke inhalation injury
Respiratory Research, 2010 Background Increased mucus secretion is one of the important characteristics of the response to smoke inhalation injuries. We hypothesized that gel-forming mucins may contribute to the increased mucus production in a smoke inhalation injury.
Kwon Kun Young +4 more
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Cats with thermal burn injuries from California wildfires show echocardiographic evidence of myocardial thickening and intracardiac thrombi. [PDF]
, 2020 Recent increases in the prevalence and severity of wildfires in some regions have resulted in an increased frequency of veterinary burn patients. Few studies exist regarding diagnostics and management of burn wounds in veterinary patients and current ...
Epstein, Steven E +4 more
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Clinical outcome and comparison of burn injury scoring systems in burn patient in Indonesia
African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2021 Introduction: The purpose of this study was to explore and compare the performance of four burn injury scoring systems in Indonesia. In a retrospective study, data of all burn patients admitted to the emergency centre (EC) were collected.
Risa Herlianita +3 more
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Outcome following burns from 1985 to 2004 in the centre for severely burned patients, Ghent University Hosptial, Belgium [PDF]
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Blot, Stijn +6 more
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Adults with well‐healed burn injuries have lower pulmonary function values decades after injury
Physiological Reports, 2022 Sub‐acute (e.g., inhalation injury) and/or acute insults sustained during a severe burn injury impairs pulmonary function. However, previous work has not fully characterized pulmonary function in adults with well‐healed burn injuries decades after an ...
Joseph C. Watso +9 more
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Nebulized heparin in burn patients with inhalation trauma : safety and feasibility [PDF]
, 2020 Background: Pulmonary hypercoagulopathy is intrinsic to inhalation trauma. Nebulized heparin could theoretically be beneficial in patients with inhalation injury, but current data are conflicting.
Binnekade, Jan M. +17 more
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Effect of inhaled iloprost on gas exchange in inhalation injury
Burns Open, 2017 Objective: Inhalation injury is an independent risk factor for mortality in burn patients. The purpose of this study was to observe the effect of inhaled iloprost on gas exchange in patients with inhalation injury and acute respiratory failure as ...
Andrea Sikora Newsome +10 more
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Protective effect of surfactant inhalation against warm ischemic injury in an isolated rat lung ventilation model. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Warm ischemia-reperfusion injury remains a crucial issue in transplantation following the cardiac death of donors. Previously, we showed that surfactant inhalation during warm ischemia mitigated ischemia-reperfusion injury.
Akihiro Ohsumi +6 more
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Ammonia toxicity: from head to toe? [PDF]
, 2016 Ammonia is diffused and transported across all plasma membranes. This entails that hyperammonemia leads to an increase in ammonia in all organs and tissues.
Dasarathy, Srinivasan +6 more
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Invasive Aspergillus outbreak in inhalation injury: a case presentation and literature review
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022 Background Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis often occurs in patients with poor immune function, who abuse steroids or broad-spectrum antibiotics, or who use intravenous drugs.
Shengli Liu +3 more
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