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Microplastics, potential threat to patients with lung diseases

open access: yesFrontiers in Toxicology, 2022
Air pollution is one of the major risk factors for lung disease. Microplastics are a ubiquitous environmental pollutant, both indoors and in outdoor air. Microplastics have also been found in human lung tissue and sputum.
Kuo Lu   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Phenotypes of Sarcoidosis-Associated Pulmonary Hypertension—A Challenging Mystery

open access: yesDiagnostics, 2023
Sarcoidosis has been a well-recognised risk factor for pulmonary hypertension (PH) for a long time, but still, the knowledge about this concatenation is incomplete.
Aneta Kacprzak   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Recent Progress of Ferroptosis in Lung Diseases

open access: yesFrontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2021
Ferroptosis is a new form of programmed cell death due to iron-dependent excess accumulation of lipid peroxides and differs from other programmed cell deaths in morphological and biochemical characteristics.
Shang Yu   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nintedanib in Progressive Fibrosing Interstitial Lung Diseases.

open access: yesNew England Journal of Medicine, 2019
BACKGROUND Preclinical data have suggested that nintedanib, an intracellular inhibitor of tyrosine kinases, inhibits processes involved in the progression of lung fibrosis.
K. Flaherty   +17 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The prevalence and burden of interstitial lung diseases in the USA

open access: yesERJ Open Research, 2021
Interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) are a heterogeneous group of diseases (i.e. idiopathic interstitial pneumonias, autoimmune ILDs, environmental exposure-related ILDs, sarcoidosis) but share several common clinical and pathophysiological features [1, 2].
N. Jeganathan, Matheni Sathananthan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Serum Levels of Interleukin-8 and Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha in Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis: One-year Follow-up Study

open access: yesSafety and Health at Work, 2010
Objectives: Various cytokines induced by inhalation of coal dust may mediate inflammation and lead to tissue damage or fibrosis, such as coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP).
Jong Seong Lee   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Imaging Plays a Key Role in the Diagnosis and Control of the Treatment of Bone Sarcoidosis

open access: yesBiomedicines, 2023
Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disease of unknown origin. The most frequent localizations are thoracic lymph nodes and/or parenchymal lung disease, nevertheless any other organ may be involved.
Katarzyna Błasińska   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Guanylyl cyclase activation reverses resistive breathing–induced lung injury and inflammation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Inspiratory resistive breathing (RB), encountered in obstructive lung diseases, induces lung injury. The soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC)/cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) pathway is down-regulated in chronic and acute animal models of RB, such as ...
Brouckaert, Peter   +15 more
core   +2 more sources

Palliative care for people with non-malignant lung disease: summary of current evidence and future direction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Background: The physical and psychosocial needs of patients with chronic non-malignant lung disease are comparable to those with lung cancer. This article will focus on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, interstitial lung disease and cystic fibrosis ...
Boland, Jason   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Severe Respiratory Failure Due to Pulmonary BCGosis in a Patient Treated for Superficial Bladder Cancer

open access: yesDiagnostics, 2022
Intra-vesical instillations with bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) are the established adjuvant therapy for superficial bladder cancer. Although generally safe and well tolerated, they may cause a range of different, local, and systemic complications.
Katarzyna Lewandowska   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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