Airway response to methacholine following eucapnic voluntary hyperpnea in athletes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 To evaluate the changes in airway responsiveness to methacholine inhalation test (MIT) when performed after an eucapnic voluntary hyperpnea challenge (EVH) in athletes.Two MIT preceded (visit 1) or not (visit 2) by an EVH, were performed in 28 athletes ...
Valérie Bougault +3 more
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, 2001 Clinical effects of spa therapy were examined in 150 patients with asthma in relation tobronchial hyperresponsiveness and patient age. 1. The efficacy rate of spa therapy was larger as the patient age was higher: the rate was 73.3% in patients under age ...
Ashida, Kozo +8 more
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Airway responses and inflammation in subjects with asthma after four days of repeated high-single-dose allergen challenge [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Both standard and low-dose allergen provocations are an established tool in asthma research to improve our understanding of the pathophysiological mechanism of allergic asthma.
Rose, Markus A. +5 more
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Bronchial thermoplasty : a new therapeutic option for the treatment of severe, uncontrolled asthma in adults [PDF]
, 2014 Bronchial thermoplasty is a young yet promising treatment for severe asthma whose benefit for long-term asthma control outweighs the short-term risk of deterioration and hospitalisation in the days following the treatment.
Alagha, Khuder +10 more
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Bronchial hyperresponsiveness and analysis of induced sputum cells in Crohn's disease
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 2005 With the aim of investigating the presence of latent inflammatory process in the lungs of patients with Crohn's disease, 15 patients with Crohn's disease were evaluated by spirometry, the methacholine challenge test, induced sputum, and skin tests for ...
R.M. Bartholo +8 more
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What makes a difference in exercise-induced bronchoconstriction: an 8 year retrospective analysis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 BACKGROUND: Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) was recently classified into EIB alone and EIB with asthma, based on the presence of concurrent asthma.
Han-Ki Park +4 more
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The effect of lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 deficiency on pulmonary allergic responses in Aspergillus fumigatus sensitized mice. [PDF]
, 2012 BackgroundLipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2)/platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase (PAF-AH) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease.
Fehrenbach, Melane L +8 more
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Study of airway hyperresponsiveness in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis
Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2019 Background Airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) is an overstated constrictor response of the airways to a diverse types of specific plus nonspecific stimuli, and it is a major, but not necessarily unique, feature of asthma.
Noha M El Sayed El Shourbagy +3 more
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BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 2023 Background Athletes are at risk for developing exercise-induced lower airway narrowing. The diagnostic assessment of such lower airway dysfunction (LAD) requires an objective bronchial provocation test (BPT).Objectives Our primary aim was to assess if ...
Roald Bahr +6 more
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Methacholine challenge test as indicator for add on inhaled corticosteroids in COPD patients
Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2014 Background: Bronchial hyperreactivity (BHR) has been described in COPD. Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are used in the treatment of asthma, but the beneficial effects of steroid treatment in COPD are debatable.
M. Hantera, H. Abdel-Hafiz
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