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Interstitial lung disease [PDF]

European Respiratory Review, 2013
This article reviews the most important articles published in interstitial lung disease, as reviewed during the Clinical Year in Review session at the 2012 annual European Respiratory Society Congress in Vienna, Austria.Since the recent international guidelines for the management of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), important new evidence is ...
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Elastocapillary network model of inhalation [PDF]

Physical Review Research, 2, 043382 (2020), 2020
The seemingly simple process of inhalation relies on a complex interplay between muscular contraction in the thorax, elasto-capillary interactions in individual lung branches, propagation of air between different connected branches, and overall air flow into the lungs.
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Tropical Lung Disease

Chest, 1989
Lung disease is common in the tropics; lower respiratory tract infections are a major cause of mortality, especially in children under 5 years of age. The World Health Organization has launched strategies to tackle this killer of children. Infections, including tuberculosis and drug-resistant tuberculosis, find vulnerable hosts in the tropics where ...
Papanikolaou, Ilias C., Tsenempi, Xenia A.   +1 more
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Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria in Respiratory Specimens of Patients with Obstructive Lung Diseases—Colonization or Disease?

Antibiotics, 2020
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are increasingly a cause of human respiratory tract colonization and mycobacterial lung disease (NTM-LD), especially in patients with chronic lung diseases.
Monika Szturmowicz, Karina Oniszh, Dorota Wyrostkiewicz, Piotr Radwan-Rohrenschef, Dorota Filipczak, Anna Zabost   +5 more
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Novel folliculin gene mutations in Polish patients with Birt–Hogg–Dubé syndrome

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2021
Background Birt–Hogg–Dubé syndrome (BHDS) is a rare, autosomal dominant, inherited disease caused by mutations in the folliculin gene (FLCN). The disease is characterised by skin lesions (fibrofolliculomas, trichodiscomas, acrochordons), pulmonary cysts ...
Elżbieta Radzikowska, Urszula Lechowicz, Jolanta Winek, Lucyna Opoka   +3 more
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Studies on an antifibrinolytic agent trans-AMCHA [PDF]

, 1968
Lysis of fibrin was first recognized by MORGAGNI in 1769, observing a liquid blood in a patient of acute death, and the phenomenon was named as fibrinolysis by DASTRE in 1893.
Fujiyama, Noboru, Morimoto, Setsuo, Ohmoto, Takechiyo, Shigemoto, Hirosada, Shimizu, Hiroshi, Sunada, Terutake   +5 more
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Occupational lung disease [PDF]

Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2013
Occupational medicine represents the interface between work and health. As such, its breadth encompasses issues of clinical medicine, epidemiology, occupational hygiene, toxicology, ethics, and the law. The diagnosis of an occupational lung disease has implications not only for the health of the worker, but also in some circumstances for the health of
P T Reid, P A Reid
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A multicentre retrospective observational study on Polish experience of pirfenidone therapy in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: the PolExPIR study

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2020
Background Pirfenidone is an antifibrotic agent approved for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The drug is available for Polish patients with IPF since 2017. The PolExPIR study aimed to describe the real-world data (RWD) on the Polish
Sebastian Majewski, Adam J. Białas, Małgorzata Buchczyk, Paweł Gomółka, Katarzyna Górska, Hanna Jagielska-Len, Agnieszka Jarzemska, Ewa Jassem, Dariusz Jastrzębski, Aleksander Kania, Marek Koprowski, Rafał Krenke, Jan Kuś, Katarzyna Lewandowska, Magdalena M. Martusewicz-Boros, Kazimierz Roszkowski-Śliż, Alicja Siemińska, Krzysztof Sładek, Małgorzata Sobiecka, Karolina Szewczyk, Małgorzata Tomczak, Witold Tomkowski, Elżbieta Wiatr, Dariusz Ziora, Beata Żołnowska, Wojciech J. Piotrowski   +25 more
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Large Pericardial Effusion—Diagnostic and Therapeutic Options, with a Special Attention to the Role of Prolonged Pericardial Fluid Drainage

Diagnostics, 2022
Background: Large pericardial effusion (LPE) is associated with high mortality. In patients with cardiac tamponade or with suspected bacterial etiology of pericardial effusion, urgent pericardial decompression is necessary.
Małgorzata Dybowska, Monika Szturmowicz, Katarzyna Błasińska, Juliusz Gątarek, Ewa Augustynowicz-Kopeć, Renata Langfort, Paweł Kuca, Witold Tomkowski   +7 more
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Diagnostic ability of multidisciplinary discussion in interstitial lung diseases and rare lung diseases [PDF]

, 2022
The lessons contained herein were learned from a four-year multidisciplinary discussion (MDD) on interstitial lung diseases (ILD). ILDs describe a heterogeneous collection of lung disorders.
Khalifa, Abdelkarim
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