Smoking in Systemic Sclerosis: a Longitudinal European Scleroderma Trials and Research Group Study [PDF]
, 2018 Data on the role of tobacco exposure in systemic sclerosis (SSc) severity and progression are scarce. We aimed to assess the effects of smoking on the evolution of pulmonary and skin manifestations in the EUSTAR ...
Airó, Paolo +25 more
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Lung ultrasound in systemic sclerosis: correlation with high-resolution computed tomography, pulmonary function tests and clinical variables of disease [PDF]
, 2015 Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a hallmark of systemic sclerosis (SSc). Although high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) is the gold standard to diagnose ILD, recently lung ultrasound (LUS) has emerged in SSc patients as a new promising technique ...
Amoroso, Antonio +8 more
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Development and validity testing of an IPF-specific version of the St George's Respiratory Questionnaire [PDF]
, 2010 Rationale The St George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) is often applied to assess health-related quality of life in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Some SGRQ items will inevitably have weaker measurement properties than others when
Jones, PW, Swigris, JJ, Yorke, J
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Fibrosis-Net: A Tailored Deep Convolutional Neural Network Design for Prediction of Pulmonary Fibrosis Progression from Chest CT Images [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Pulmonary fibrosis is a devastating chronic lung disease that causes irreparable lung tissue scarring and damage, resulting in progressive loss in lung capacity and has no known cure. A critical step in the treatment and management of pulmonary fibrosis is the assessment of lung function decline, with computed tomography (CT) imaging being a ...
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Bosentan for digital ulcers prevention does not worsen cardiopulmonary exercise test parameters in SSc patients with interstitial lung disease [PDF]
, 2016 Bosentan for digital ulcers prevention does not worsen cardiopulmonary exercise test parameters in SSc patients with interstitial lung ...
Amoroso, Daria +7 more
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The 6 minute walk in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: longitudinal changes and minimum important difference [PDF]
, 2010 The response characteristics of the 6 minute walk test (6MWT) in studies of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are only poorly understood, and the change in walk distance that constitutes the minimum important difference (MID) over time is ...
Behr, Jürgen +6 more
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PulmoBell: Home-based Pulmonary Rehabilitation Assistive Technology for People with COPD [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) can be fatal and is challenging to live with due to its severe symptoms. Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is one of the managements means to maintain COPD in a stable status. However, implementation of PR in the UK has been challenging due to the environmental and personal barriers faced by patients, which ...
arxiv
Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis Associated with Environmental Mycobacteria [PDF]
, 2005 A previously healthy man working as a machine operator in an automotive factory developed respiratory symptoms. Medical evaluation showed abnormal pulmonary function tests, a lung biopsy showed hypersensitivity pneumonitis, and his illness was traced to ...
Akshay Sood +7 more
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Clinical and serological features of systemic sclerosis in a multicenter African American cohort: Analysis of the genome research in African American scleroderma patients clinical database. [PDF]
, 2017 Racial differences exist in the severity of systemic sclerosis (SSc). To enhance our knowledge about SSc in African Americans, we established a comprehensive clinical database from the largest multicenter cohort of African American SSc patients assembled
Boin, Francesco +28 more
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Automatic Emphysema Detection using Weakly Labeled HRCT Lung Images [PDF]
, 2017 A method for automatically quantifying emphysema regions using High-Resolution Computed Tomography (HRCT) scans of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that does not require manually annotated scans for training is presented. HRCT scans of controls and of COPD patients with diverse disease severity are acquired at two different ...
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