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Cryptogenic Fibrosing Pleuritis
European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2021 We report the case of a 46-year-old male patient who was referred for chest pain and bilateral pleural effusion. Despite treatment with antibiotics and steroids, the pleural effusion worsened over a few months until pulmonary function was halved.
Alessandra Anna Manco +6 more
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Pulmonology, 2023 Introduction The management and treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) are based on a cutoff point either of ≥ 10 on the COPD Assessment Test (CAT) or of ≥ 2 of the Medical Research Council (mMRC).
R. Pisi +6 more
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Early respiratory diagnosis: benefits of enhanced lung function assessment
BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 2021 Introduction The National Health Service for England Long Term Plan identifies respiratory disease as one of its priority workstreams. To assist with earlier and more accurate diagnosis of lung disease they recommend improvement in delivery of quality ...
Ravi Mahadeva +4 more
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Breathe, 2023 Pulmonary functional imaging modalities such as computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and nuclear imaging can quantitatively assess regional lung functional parameters and their distributions. These include ventilation, perfusion, gas exchange at the microvascular level and biomechanical properties, among other variables.
Sam Bayat, Jim Wild, Tilo Winkler
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Biomedicines, 2021 Airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) represents a central pathophysiological hallmark of asthma, with airway smooth muscle (ASM) being the effector tissue implicated in the onset of AHR.
Luigino Calzetta +6 more
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BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2023 Background Asthma exacerbations reduce the patient’s quality of life and are also responsible for significant disease burdens and economic costs.
Shiqiu Xiong +4 more
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Caveolins and Lung Function [PDF]
, 2012 The primary function of the mammalian lung is to facilitate diffusion of oxygen to venous blood and to ventilate carbon dioxide produced by catabolic reactions within cells. However, it is also responsible for a variety of other important functions, including host defense and production of vasoactive agents to regulate not only systemic blood pressure,
Maniatis, N.A. +3 more
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The Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2023 Purpose In COVID‐19 era, all forms of access of patients to the sleep units should be reduced as much as possible when implementing telemedicine.
Antonio Foresi +4 more
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Respirology Case Reports, 2020 We report the genetic variants associated with alpha‐1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) in 117 patients admitted to our outpatient clinic and characterized by a serum concentration of AAT lower than 113 mg/dL.
Marina Aiello +5 more
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Muscles and lungs: fatal attraction, but time for intervention
Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2005 -
J.C. Winck, M. Gonçalves
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