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Prognostic impact of residual SYNTAX score in patients with obstructive sleep apnea and acute coronary syndrome: a prospective cohort study

open access: yesRespiratory Research, 2019
Background There is a paucity of data from large prospective study evaluating the prognostic significance of the residual Synergy between percutaneous intervention with Taxus drug-eluting stents and cardiac surgery (SYNTAX) Score (rSS) in patients with ...
Yaping Zeng   +5 more
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Optimizing COPD treatment in patients with lung- or head and neck cancer does not improve quality of life – a randomized, pilot, clinical trial

open access: yesEuropean Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2020
Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common comorbidity in patients with lung and head- and neck cancer. Patients with lung cancer who also suffer from COPD have a worse prognosis than patients with lung cancer and no COPD.
Magnus Gottlieb   +3 more
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Potential role of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in air pollution-induced non-malignant respiratory diseases

open access: yesRespiratory Research, 2020
Epidemiological studies have found strong associations between air pollution and respiratory effects including development and/or exacerbation of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as well as increased occurrence of respiratory ...
Marit Låg   +3 more
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Atopy is a risk factor for adult asthma in urban community of Southwestern Nigeria

open access: yesLung India, 2012
Rationale: Factors affecting asthma course are not clearly elucidated in urban communities in developing countries. Furthermore, the interaction between factors such as atopy, environmental exposure, urbanization, and helminthic infections in modulating ...
O M Ige, A G Falade, O G Arinola
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Superior vena caval syndrome and ipsilateral pleural effusion: A rare presentation of anterior mediastinal thymoma

open access: yesLung India, 2014
Incidence of thymic malignancies is very low. Thymoma, a tumor of thymus gland, is of epithelial origin and is most common anterior mediastinal tumor. In most cases, thymomas are localized and locally advanced thymomas may rarely present with superior ...
Anirban Das   +4 more
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Role of ethambutol and rifampicin in the treatment of Mycobacterium avium complex pulmonary disease

open access: yesBMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2019
Background A three-drug regimen (macrolide, ethambutol, and rifampicin) is recommended for the treatment of Mycobacterium avium complex pulmonary disease (MAC-PD).
Hyung-Jun Kim   +6 more
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Autophagy and pulmonary disease

open access: yesTherapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease, 2019
Autophagy is a process of cell self-renewal that is dependent on the degradation of the cytoplasmic proteins or organelles of lysosomes. Many diseases, such as metabolic diseases, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and lung diseases, have been confirmed
Shi-xia Liao   +5 more
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Sonic hedgehog signalling as a potential endobronchial biomarker in COPD

open access: yesRespiratory Research, 2020
Background The hedgehog (HH) pathway has been associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in genome-wide association studies and recent studies suggest that HH signalling could be altered in COPD.
Julien Ancel   +11 more
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Derrame pleural secundário à hiperestimulação ovariana Pleural effusion following ovarian hyperstimulation

open access: yesJornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, 2012
A síndrome de hiperestimulação ovariana (SHEO) é uma complicação iatrogênica que ocorre na fase lútea de um ciclo hormonal induzido. Na maioria dos casos, os sintomas são autolimitados e regridem espontaneamente. Entretanto, casos graves comumente cursam
Jader Joel Machado Junqueira   +5 more
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Multiple endo bronchial lipoma: a rare case report

open access: yesBMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2020
Background Endobronchial lipoma is an extremely rare benign tumor, which is generally located in the first three subdivisions of the tracheobronchial tree. According to the existing literature, all endobronchial lipomas are single (one per patient). Here,
Shunjin Zhao, Yuexiang Shui, Zhong Dai
doaj   +1 more source

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