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Pulmonary outcomes following specialized respiratory management for acute cervical spinal cord injury: a retrospective analysis. [PDF]

, 2017
Study designRetrospective analysis.ObjectivesTo identify multivariate interactions of respiratory function that are sensitive to spinal cord injury level and pharmacological treatment to promote strategies that increase successful liberation from ...
Crew, JD, Ferguson, AR, Kosarchuk, JJ, McKenna, SL, Nielson, JL, Zakrasek, EC   +5 more
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The lung function profile of once-daily tiotropium and olodaterol via Respimat® is superior to that of twice-daily salmeterol and fluticasone propionate via Accuhaler® (ENERGITO® study) [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Tiotropium + olodaterol has demonstrated improvements beyond lung function benefits in a large Phase III clinical program as a once-daily maintenance treatment for COPD and may be a potential option for the initiation of maintenance treatment
Beeh, Kai-Michael, Bjermer, Leif,, Derom, Eric, Echave-Sustaeta, José, Grönke, Lars, Hamilton, Alan, Lund University., Lund University., Zhai, Dongmei   +8 more
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Lung volumes identify an at-risk group in persons with prolonged secondhand tobacco smoke exposure but without overt airflow obstruction. [PDF]

, 2018
IntroductionExposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) is associated with occult obstructive lung disease as evident by abnormal airflow indices representing small airway disease despite having preserved spirometry (normal forced expiratory volume in 1 s-to ...
Arjomandi, Mehrdad, Blanc, Paul D, Bos, Bruce, Elicker, Brett, Geerts, Jeroen, Gold, Warren M, Keene, Jason, Stiner, Rachel K, van Koeverden, Ian, Zeng, Siyang   +9 more
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Occupational health surveillance: pulmonary function testing and oxidative stress among photocopying workers in Pakistan

Medycyna Pracy, 2019
Background The photocopying occupation contributes to various health issues in workers. Elevated levels of oxidative stress have been found to be associated with respiratory problems in occupational workers.
Houda Javed, Nadia Ghani, Natasha Ghani, Ammara Fatima   +3 more
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Pulmonary Function Tests for the Radiologist [PDF]

RadioGraphics, 2017
Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) provide important quantitative information about lung function and can be used to elucidate pathologic conditions responsible for respiratory symptoms, assess the severity and course of disease, and evaluate the patient for suitability and timing for lung transplantation.
Hsiang-Jer, Tseng, Travis S, Henry, Srihari, Veeraraghavan, Pardeep K, Mittal, Brent P, Little   +4 more
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Pediatric Pulmonary Function Testing in COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond. A Position Statement From the Hellenic Pediatric Respiratory Society

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2021
As the COVID-19 pandemic is still evolving, guidelines on pulmonary function testing that may dynamically adapt to sudden epidemiologic changes are required.
Sotirios Fouzas, Dimos Gidaris, Nikolaos Karantaglis, Harry Opsimos, Emmanouil I. Alexopoulos, Konstantinos Douros, Fotios Kirvassilis, Emmanouil Paraskakis, Michael B. Anthracopoulos, Markos Marangos, Ioannis Tsanakas, the Hellenic Pediatric Respiratory Society   +11 more
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Under pressure: pulmonary hypertension associated with left heart disease. [PDF]

, 2015
© ERS 2015.Pulmonary hypertension (PH) associated with left heart disease (PH-LHD) is the most common type of PH, but its natural history is not well understood.
Farber, HW, Gibbs, S
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Discordance between lung function of Chinese university students of 20-year-old established norms

, 2005
Objective: We examined the validity of the 20-year-old established Asian norms for pulmonary function in a contemporary cohort of Hong Kong Chinese university students.
Dean, Elizabeth, Jones, Alice, Lam, Peggo Kwok-Wai, Lo, Sing Kai   +3 more
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Managing toxicities associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: consensus recommendations from the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Toxicity Management Working Group. [PDF]

, 2017
Cancer immunotherapy has transformed the treatment of cancer. However, increasing use of immune-based therapies, including the widely used class of agents known as immune checkpoint inhibitors, has exposed a discrete group of immune-related adverse ...
Abdallah, K., Anderson, J., Andrews, S., Arrindell, D., Ballesteros, J., Bingham, C. O., Boyer, J., Brogdon, C., Chen, D., Chonzi, D., Cotarla, I., Cunha, R., Dadu, R., Davies, M., Dawson, M., Diab, A., Dicker, Adam, Eifler, L., Ernstoff, M. S., Ferguson, A., Ferlini, C., Frankel, S., Go, W., Gochett, C., Goldberg, J., Goncalves, P., Goswami, T., Gregory, N., Gulley, J. L., Hamad, L., Hayreh, V., Helie, N., Holmes, W., Hsu, J. Y., Ibrahim, R., Kaufman, H. L., Kim, S., Lacouture, M. E., Lambotte, O., Larocca, C., LeBoeuf, N. R., Lehman, K., Lenihan, D., Ley-Acosta, S., Luke, J., McClure, J., Michelon, E., Nakamura, M., Onofrei, C., Patel, K., Piperdi, B., Puzanov, I., Rasheed, Z., Reshef, D., Riemer, J., Robert, C., Sarkeshik, M., Saylors, A., Schreiber, J., Shafer-Weaver, K., Shannon, V., Sharfman, W., Sharma, R., Sharon, E., Sherry, R., Silk, A. W., Simonson, C., Skondra, D., Suarez-Almazor, M. E., Thomas, C., Thompson, J. A., Trehu, E., Tresnan, D., Turner, M., Wang, Y., Wariabharaj, D., Waxman, I., Wiley, K., Wood, L., Zhang, L., Zheng, P.   +80 more
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Emerging role of angiogenesis in adaptive and maladaptive right ventricular remodeling in pulmonary hypertension [PDF]

, 2018
Right ventricular (RV) function is the primary prognostic factor for both morbidity and mortality in pulmonary hypertension (PH). RV hypertrophy is initially an adaptive physiological response to increased overload; however, with persistent and/or ...
Bonnet, Sébastien, de Jesus Perez, Vinicio A., Frump, Andrea L., Lahm, Tim   +3 more
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