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Predictive significance of the six-minute walk distance for long-term survival in chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure [PDF]

, 2007
Background: The 6-min walk distance ( 6-MWD) is a global marker of functional capacity and prognosis in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( COPD), but less explored in other chronic respiratory diseases.
Aida A, Andre P. Hitzl, ATS Committee on Proficiency Standards for Clinical Pulmonary Function Laboratories, Barreiro E, Bittner V, Bowen JB, Budweiser S, Budweiser S, Cano NJ, Cano NJ, Carter R, Casanova C, Chailleux E, Criee CP, Enright PL, Fabbri L, Farre R, Felix Heidtkamp, Frank Heinemann, Fuschillo S, Gustafson T, Highcock MP, Kathrin Schmidbauer, Koechlin C, Kossler W, Lederer DJ, Lloyd-Owen SJ, Marquis K, Mascolo MC, Michael Arzt, Michael Pfeifer, Miyamoto S, Quanjer PH, Rudolf A. Jörres, Sauleda J, Schols AM, Sciurba F, Stephan Budweiser, Stephan Schroll, Vestbo J   +39 more
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The relation of the pleural thickening in tuberculosis pleurisy with the activity of adenosine deaminase

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2005
Selvi, A. Kant, S. Arslan, M. Ozgel. Background: Residual pleural thickening (RPT) still occurs in most patients with tuberculosis pleurisy despite advances in the treatment of tuberculosis.
B. Uskul, H. Turker, C. Ulman, M. Ertugrul, A. Selvi, A. Kant, S. Arslan, M. Ozgel   +7 more
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Boosted Cascaded Convnets for Multilabel Classification of Thoracic Diseases in Chest Radiographs

, 2017
Chest X-ray is one of the most accessible medical imaging technique for diagnosis of multiple diseases. With the availability of ChestX-ray14, which is a massive dataset of chest X-ray images and provides annotations for 14 thoracic diseases; it is ...
Grewal, Monika, Kumar, Pulkit, Srivastava, Muktabh Mayank   +2 more
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Thoracic and Lumbar Vertebral Bone Mineral Density Changes in a Natural Occurring Dog Model of Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis [PDF]

, 2015
Ankylosing spinal disorders can be associated with alterations in vertebral bone mineral density (BMD). There is however controversy about vertebral BMD in patients wuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH).
A El Maghraoui, A Unnanuntana, AJ Schoenfeld, B Mermerci Baskan, BL Riggs, D Marshall, D Resnick, D Uebelhart, Damian Christopher Genetos, DS Meredith, E Klingberg, E Lubberts, G Diederichs, G Sahin, HC Kranenburg, HC Kranenburg, HC Kranenburg, Holger A. Volk, Ingrid M. V. L. Gielen, J Gratacós, J-M Berthelot, JB Jun, JJ Schreiber, JJ Schreiber, K Engelke, KF Holton, L Mosekilde, LA Westerveld, LA Westerveld, LA Westerveld, M Di Franco, M Ortega, N Maruotti, O Rutherford, P Eser, PJ Pickhardt, PJ Pickhardt, PN Sambrook, R Mader, Richard Lam, Rowena M. A. Packer, RY-C Lau, S De Decker, S Lee, S Takata, Steven De Decker, T Caron, WG Liu   +47 more
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Surgical and Non-surgical Treatments in Pleural Empyema

Bezmiâlem Science
Objective: Increasing number of patients are developing complicated pleural infection. We aimed at revealing the differences of treatment modalities performed in patients with empyema.
Sami DENİZ, Nimet AKSEL, Özer ÖZDEMİR, Görkem VAYISOĞLU ŞAHİN, Ezgi ÇİMEN ÇELİK, Mutlu Onur GÜÇSAV, Filiz GÜLDAVAL, Ahmet Emin ERBAYCU, Ahmet ÜÇVET   +8 more
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Endobronchial ultrasound in Dieulafoy’s disease of the bronchus: an additional application of EBUS

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2016
Dieulafoy’s disease is a rare vascular malformation represented by an abnormally enlarged submucosal arterial vessel. This malformation is mostly found in gastrointestinal tract causing spontaneous bleeding although a few cases have been described in the
C. Gurioli, G.L. Casoni, C. Gurioli, S. Tomassetti, M. Romagnoli, C. Ravaglia, V. Poletti   +6 more
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Treatment of thoracic actinomycosis: A retrospective analysis of 40 patients

Annals of Thoracic Medicine, 2010
Background : The aim of this study was to evaluate treatment outcomes in patients with thoracic actinomycosis and identify patient characteristics associated with unfavorable responses to antibiotic therapy.
Song Jae-Uk, Park Hye, Jeon Kyeongman, Um Sang-Won, Kwon O, Koh Won-Jung   +5 more
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Videothoracoscopic Right Pneumonectomy for Destroyed Lung

Southern Clinics of Istanbul Eurasia, 2019
Destroyed lung is a term used when there is disseminated destruction of the lung parenchyma caused by a chronic infectious or inflammatory pulmonary disease.
İlker Kolbaş, Çağatay Tezel, Serdar Evman, Serkan Bayram, Volkan Baysungur   +4 more
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The Long-term Outcomes of Completion Pneumonectomy from a Tertiary Center

Haseki Tıp Bülteni, 2022
Aim:Completion pneumonectomy is a compelling procedure that is associated with high rates of mortality and morbidity. The aim of the present study was to investigate long-term surgical and oncologic outcomes of completion pneumonectomy.Methods:A ...
Yunus Aksoy, Ozkan Saydam, Necati Citak, Celal Bugra Sezen, Volkan Erdogu, Levent Cansever, Mehmet Ali Bedirhan, Muzaffer Metin, Ali Cevat Kutluk, Atilla Pekcolaklar   +9 more
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The Significance of Video-Mediastinoscopy in Diagnostic Accuracy

Çukurova Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi, 2013
Purpose: Video-mediastinoscopy, which has been recently employed, is a method for the diagnosis of mediastinal diseases and staging lung cancer. Material and Method: In our study, we retrospectively evaluated patients admitted to our clinic between 2008 ...
Murat Oncel, Guven Sadi Sunam
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