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Background. Head-to-head comparison of treatment failure and costs among chronic obstruct pulmonary disease (COPD) patients who used noninvasive ventilation (NIV) in the ward versus in the ICU is lacking. Methods.
Yueling Hong +8 more
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Asthma Treatments for Children and Adolescents: Strategies for a Global Approach
Strategies for a global approach to the management of asthma in children and adolescents are described. Such an approach requires the physician to explain to the patient the pathophysiology of asthma, to evaluate and, whenever possible, change ...
Robert L Thivierge
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The present pilot study was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of an aerobic exercise training (AET) program alone or combined with an antihypertensive agent (irbesartan) to reduce blood pressure (BP) and enhance heart rate ...
Karine Marquis +5 more
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The Epidemiology of Childhood Asthma in Red Deer and Medicine Hat, Alberta
OBJECTIVES: To document the prevalence of asthma among school-aged children in two Alberta communities, to understand host and indoor environmental factors associated with asthma, and to compare these factors between the two communities.
Patrick A Hessel +5 more
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Immersion Pulmonary Edema in Female Triathletes
Pulmonary edema has been reported in SCUBA divers, apnea divers, and long-distance swimmers however, no instances of pulmonary edema in triathletes exist in the scientific literature.
Eric A. Carter, Michael S. Koehle
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Interstitial Lung Disease in Rheumatoid Arthritis in the Era of Biologics
Interstitial lung disease (ILD) represents a severe manifestation in connective tissue diseases (CTD), with an overall incidence of 15%, and it is still a challenge for clinicians evaluation and management.
A. Picchianti Diamanti +4 more
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BACKGROUND: During acute ventilatory failure in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), applying external positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEPe) will reopen small airways and, thus, may enhance peripheral deposition as well as the ...
Claude Guerin +9 more
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Objective. There is increasing evidence of adverse outcomes associated with blood transfusions for adult traumatic brain injury patients. However, current evidence suggests that pediatric traumatic brain injury patients may respond to blood transfusions ...
Kevin F. Yee +2 more
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Histiocytosis X and Bronchopulmonary Adenocarcinoma: A Rare Coexistence
There exists a rarely observed association between pulmonary histiocytosis X and bronchopulmonary cancer. However, the frequency of bronchopulmonary cancer in these patients is higher than in the general population.
Akýn Kaya +5 more
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Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Long Term Follow-Up of 40 Non-HIV-Infected Patients
BACKGROUND: There has been a steady increase in referrals of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) who are human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) negative.
Monica Avendaño, RS Goldstein
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