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Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2018 Purpose: Different respiratory sampling methods exist to identify lower airway pathogens in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), of which bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), and expectorated sputum are considered the “gold standard.” Because BAL cannot be ...
Hanneke Eyns +8 more
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Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.Pretomanid is a component of the World Health Organization‐recommended treatment regimen for drug‐resistant tuberculosis in patients aged ≥ 14 years. While preclinical rodent studies identified testicular toxicity as a potential clinical liability at elevated doses, no corresponding effects were observed in nonhuman primates nor clinical hormone ...
Pauline Howell +13 more
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Strongyloides stercoralis in sputum [PDF]
QJM, 2013 A 68-year-old man had the initial presentation of poor appetite, productive cough for 1 month and body weight loss for 10 kg in half a year. His medical history included bladder cancer and diabetes mellitus. Laboratory testing demonstrated a white blood count of 15 800 cells/μl with a neutrophil count of 11 060 (70%) cells/μl and eosinophil count of ...
C-U, Cheong, S-J, Gau, C-C, Lai
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Diagnostic Cytopathology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Clear cell sarcoma of soft tissue (CCSST) with malignant effusion is a rare yet clinically aggressive appearance, which may pose a diagnostic pitfall with its overlapping cytomorphologic features with metastatic melanoma and carcinoma.
William H. Wu +2 more
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2020 BackgroundGenetic association studies have identified single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) susceptibility.
Alejandro Ortega-Martínez +11 more
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Safety of sputum induction [PDF]
European Respiratory Journal, 2002 One of the most important recent advances in the investigation of airway inflammation has been the introduction of sputum induction by inhalation of an aerosol of hypertonic saline, by Pin et al. 1 in 1992, to directly obtain airway secretions in asthma. This method has a number of advantages over invasive methods.
Pizzichini, E. +4 more
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Head &Neck, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background The benefit of consolidation programmed cell death protein 1 (PD‐1) blockade after chemoradiotherapy in locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) remains unclear. Methods Patients with stages II–IVB NPC were randomized (2:1) to pembrolizumab 200 mg or placebo every 3 weeks for up to 17 cycles after chemoradiotherapy ...
Sang Hoon Chun +11 more
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Consumed by Abdominal Distention
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Abimbola Fadairo‐Azinge +3 more
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A case report: Diagnosis and treatment of idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis
Ibrain, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 112-116, Spring 2025.We reported a case of idiopathic hypertrophic dura meningitis diagnosed in our hospital. The patient repeatedly suffered from headaches, followed by blurred vision in the right eye. During this period, multiple sclerosis was considered for diagnosis, and it improved after hormone treatment.
Zhong Luo +7 more
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DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF SPUTUM AND ENDOTRACHEAL ASPIRATE GRAM STAIN
Zdravniški Vestnik, 2002 Background. For decades the microscopic examination of sample Gram stain has been one of the basic diagnostic procedures in the microbiology laboratory. Still opinions about usefulness of sputum and endotracheal aspirate Gram stains in initial management
Viktorija Tomič, Jurij Šorli
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