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Acute respiratory health effects of urban air pollutants in adults with different patterns of underlying respiratory disease [PDF]

, 2012
OBJECTIVE: Whether underlying chronic respiratory diseases are susceptible factors for symptomatic episodes, which lead to primary-level care, in association with air pollutant exposures is unknown.
Tschopp, J. M., Probst-Hensch, N., Amar J Mehta, Schwartz, J., Mehta, A. J., Perez, L., Künzli, N., Joel Schwartz, Brändli, O., Rochat, T., Christian Schindler, Nino Künzli, Otto Brändl, Werner Karrer, Laura Perez, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Schindler, C., Jean Marie Tschopp, Karrer, W., Thierry Rochat   +19 more
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Comparison of 11 respiratory pathogens among hospitalized children before and during the COVID-19 epidemic in Shenzhen, China

Virology Journal, 2021
Background The effect of SARS-CoV-2 on existing respiratory pathogens in circulation remains uncertain. This study aimed to assess the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on the prevalence of respiratory pathogens among hospitalized children.
Li Li, Heping Wang, Ailiang Liu, Rongjun Wang, Tingting Zhi, Yuejie Zheng, Yanming Bao, Yunsheng Chen, Wenjian Wang   +8 more
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Different Airway Inflammatory Phenotypes Correlate with Specific Fungal and Bacterial Microbiota in Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Journal of Immunology Research, 2022
Background. Studies of chronic airway inflammatory diseases have increasingly focused on airway microbiota. However, the microbiota characteristics of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients with different airway inflammatory ...
Rui Yang, Qiao Zhang, Zhidong Ren, Hong Li, Qianli Ma   +4 more
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An Early Intensive Intervention for Inducing Inactive Asthma in Adults —A One-Year Follow-Up Observation Study—

Allergology International, 2011
Background: Treatment strategy that reduces dependence on long-term medication for chronic asthma is preferable. The purpose of the study is to investigate the efficacy of an early intensive intervention for inducing inactive asthma in adults and ...
Koichiro Kudo, Hiroko Arioka, Yuichiro Takeda, Takuro Shimbo, Satoko Handa, Akihiko Kawana, Mitsuhiro Kamimura, Yasuhiro Yamauchi, Hiroyuki Nagase, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Toshie Manabe, Junzaburo Kabe   +11 more
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Occupational respiratory diseases [PDF]

The first part of this book deals with the methods used to define and study occupational respiratory diseases and includes an assessment of chest x-rays, pulmonary function data, and lung impairment.

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Spontaneous breathing in patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome receiving prolonged extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2019
Background The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in awake, spontaneously breathing and non-intubated patients (awake ECMO) may be a novel therapeutic strategy for severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients.
Jingen Xia, Sichao Gu, Min Li, Donglin Liu, Xu Huang, Li Yi, Lijuan Wu, Guohui Fan, Qingyuan Zhan   +8 more
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Re-immunotherapy with nivolumab plus ipilimumab in advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients previously treated with anti-programmed death-1 and/or anti-programmed death ligand-1 antibodies

Discover Oncology, 2023
Background The role of re-immunotherapy in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains unclear. No studies have evaluated the re-immunotherapy regimen including anti-cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 antibody for lung cancer treatment.
Takuma Imakita, Kohei Fujita, Takanori Ito, Zentaro Saito, Issei Oi, Osamu Kanai, Hiromasa Tachibana, Satoru Sawai, Tadashi Mio   +8 more
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Future treatment for asthma

European Respiratory Review, 2016
The landscape of asthma has considerably changed after 40 years of inhaled corticosteroid development and nearly 20 years since the first monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) were approved. New members of pharmacological families and more effective drug-delivery
Jeremy Charriot, Isabelle Vachier, Laurence Halimi, Anne-Sophie Gamez, Clement Boissin, Marine Salama, Alina Cucu-Jarjour, Engi Ahmed, Arnaud Bourdin   +8 more
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Role of routine abdominal ultrasonography in intensified tuberculosis case finding algorithms at HIV clinics in high TB burden settings

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017
Background High proportion of TB in people living with HIV (PLHIV) is undiagnosed. Due to this active TB case finding is recommended for HIV clinics in high TB burden countries.
Sonam Spalgais, Upasna Agarwal, Rohit Sarin, Devesh Chauhan, Anita Yadav, Anand Jaiswal   +5 more
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Arterial Blood Gases in Normal Subjects at 2240 Meters Above Sea Level: Impact of Age, Gender, and Body Mass Index

Revista de Investigación Clínica, 2023
Background: The values of arterial blood gases (ABG) change with altitude above sea level; empirical verification is essential because ventilatory acclimatization varies with ethnicity and a population’s adaptation. Objective: The aim of the study was to
Silvia Cid-Juárez, Norma A. Téllez-Navarrete, Anaid Bautista-Bernal, Pablo León-Gómez, Isabel Salas-Escamilla, Laura Gochicoa-Rangel, Rogelio Pérez-Padilla   +6 more
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