Severe Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome Treated with Auto-CPAP [PDF]
, 2016 Summary Obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) is a serious medical condition that remains undiagnosed in seriously ill hospitalized patients. Significant improvement of daytime hypercapnia can be achieved with positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy. Bi-
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Demographics and Outcomes of Pulmonary Hypertension Patients in United States Emergency Departments [PDF]
, 2020 Introduction: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a common, yet under-diagnosed, contributor to morbidity and mortality. Our objective was to characterize the prevalence of PH among adult patients presenting to United States (US) emergency departments (ED ...
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International Journal of COPD, 2020 Joon Young Choi,1,* Shin Young Kim,2,* Jae Ha Lee,3 Yong Bum Park,4 Yee Hyung Kim,5 Soo-Jung Um,6 Ki Suck Jung,7 Kwang Ha Yoo,8 Seoung Ju Park,9 Hyoung Kyu Yoon10 1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Incheon
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Anesthesiology, 2019 Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension have exceptionally high perioperative risk. This review summarizes the clinical presentation and therapies for pulmonary arterial hypertension, and it highlights evidence for inflammation as a driver of ...
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Blood and sputum biomarkers in COPD and asthma: a review [PDF]
, 2016 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma are lung inflammatory diseases that represent major public health problems. The primary, and often unique, method to evaluate lung function is spirometry, which reflects disease severity rather than
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Four patients with a history of acute exacerbations of COPD: implementing the CHEST/Canadian Thoracic Society guidelines for preventing exacerbations [PDF]
, 2015 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if ...
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Mortality from COVID-19 in Patients with COPD: A US Study in the N3C Data Enclave
International Journal of COPD, 2021 Daniel Meza, Basil Khuder, Joseph I Bailey, Sharon R Rosenberg, Ravi Kalhan, Paul A Reyfman Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chicago, IL, USACorrespondence: Paul A ReyfmanNorthwestern
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Fuzzy Modeling of Electrical Impedance Tomography Image of the Lungs [PDF]
arXiv, 2007 Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a functional imaging method that is being developed for bedside use in critical care medicine. Aiming at improving the chest anatomical resolution of EIT images we developed a fuzzy model based on EIT high temporal resolution and the functional information contained in the pulmonary perfusion and ventilation ...
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Effectiveness of a patient mediated intervention in increasing the use of cochrane reviews of evidence in clinical practice : a controlled clinical trial in COPD [PDF]
, 2006 Interventions are needed to improve health outcomes by increasing the practice of evidence based medicine ( EBM ). Patient mediated interventions have been little studied but hold promise : they target identified barriers to EBM and particular types of ...
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Editorial: Advanced therapeutic delivery for the management of chronic respiratory diseases
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