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Inhaled steroids and risk of pneumonia for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
BACKGROUND: Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are anti-inflammatory drugs that have proven benefits for people with worsening symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and repeated exacerbations.
Agarwal   +163 more
core   +1 more source

Gasotransmitters in Modern Medicine: Promises and Challenges in the Use of Porous Crystalline Carriers

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This perspective provides an overview of the growing interest in utilizing various gasotransmitters—small gaseous signaling molecules namely nitric oxide (NO), carbon monoxide (CO), and hydrogen sulfide (H2S)—for several therapeutic applications, with emphasis on the potential use of porous materials as carriers to provide safe and controlled local ...
Rosana V. Pinto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decreased relative risk of pneumococcal pneumonia during the last decade, a nested case-control study

open access: yesPneumonia, 2018
Background Streptococcus pneumoniae (SP) is one of the most common pathogens of Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP), but recent reports suggest that its incidence may be declining in relation to the use of the conjugate 13-valent pneumococcal vaccine in ...
Carlos M. Luna   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk factors for childhood pneumonia at Adama Hospital Medical College, Adama, Ethiopia: a case-control study

open access: yesPneumonia, 2022
Background Pneumonia is an acute respiratory infection of the lungs. A child dies of pneumonia every 39 s globally. Even though pneumonia affects children worldwide, the risk and repercussions of the disease are more prevalent in poor and middle-income ...
Tsega-Ab Abebaw   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Primary Care Patient Experience in Pneumonia Patient and the Effects of Readmissions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Patient primary care experience is an essential component of patient care. Research has consistently demonstrated that patient experience correlates with clinical processes of care for prevention and disease management and with better health outcomes ...
Balogun, MBBS, MPHc, Abosede   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Bacterial Pneumonia in Dogs and Cats: An Update. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Bacterial pneumonia is a common clinical diagnosis in dogs but seems to occur less often in cats. Underlying causes include viral infection, aspiration injury, foreign body inhalation, and defects in clearance of respiratory secretions. Identification of
Dear, Jonathan D
core  

Gut microbiota in HIV-pneumonia patients is related to peripheral CD4 counts, lung microbiota, and in vitro macrophage dysfunction. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Pneumonia is common and frequently fatal in HIV-infected patients, due to rampant, systemic inflammation and failure to control microbial infection. While airway microbiota composition is related to local inflammatory response, gut microbiota has been ...
Byanyima, Patrick   +14 more
core   +2 more sources

Engineered MSC Aggregates with E/N‐Cadherin and IL‐6 Preconditioning for the Treatment of Systemic Sclerosis

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Engineered 3D‐Cad/IL6‐MSC, developed through synergistic hE/N‐cad‐Fc and IL‐6 preconditioning, show remarkable therapeutic potential for systemic sclerosis. These engineered MSC aggregates reduce pathogenic inflammatory cell infiltration and restore immune balance among CD4+ T‐cell populations, offering a promising approach to optimize MSC based ...
Yue Zhang   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The air we breathe: understanding the impact of the environment on pneumonia

open access: yesPneumonia, 2022
An increased risk of community-acquired pneumonia has been shown in residents of rural livestock farming areas in the Netherlands and United States, probably due to air pollution exposure or zoonotic infections.
Lidwien A. M. Smit
doaj   +1 more source

Expanded CURB-65: A new score system predicts severity of community-acquired pneumonia with superior efficiency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Aim of this study was to develop a new simpler and more effective severity score for communityacquired pneumonia (CAP) patients. A total of 1640 consecutive hospitalized CAP patients in Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University were included ...
Dong, Xiao Jun   +11 more
core   +1 more source

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