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Associations of pulmonary microvascular blood volume with per cent emphysema and CT emphysema subtypes in the community: the MESA Lung study
Background Pulmonary microvasculature alterations are implicated in emphysema pathogenesis, but the association between ...
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Management of malignant pleural effusions
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Serum carotenoids, vitamins A and E, and 8 year lung function decline in a general population
Background: Oxidative stress is thought to have a major role in the pathogenesis of airway obstruction. A study was undertaken to determine whether subjects with low levels of antioxidants (serum ...
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The effect of acute morphine on obstructive sleep apnoea: a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled crossover trial
Objective Anaesthesiology guidelines suggest that opioids worsen obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) despite no randomised controlled trial evidence. We therefore conducted a randomised controlled trial to ...
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Cost effectiveness of an outpatient multidisciplinary pulmonary rehabilitation programme
BACKGROUND Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes improve the health of patients disabled by lung disease but their cost effectiveness is unproved. We undertook a cost/utility analysis in conjunction ...
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Highly discordant T cell responses in individuals with recent exposure to household tuberculosis
DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, ...
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Expression of protease activated receptor-2 (PAR-2) in central airways of smokers and non-smokers
8 Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Section of Occupational Medicine, University of Padova, Italy 9 Departments of Medicine, Oncology and Radiology, Section of Respiratory ...
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Development of the bronchial epithelial reticular basement membrane: relationship to epithelial height and age
Background The bronchial epithelium and underlying reticular basement membrane (RBM) have a close spatial and functional inter-relationship and are considered an epithelial–mesenchymal trophic unit ...
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Tension pneumothorax complicating autologous “blood patch” pleurodesis
Autologous “blood patching” has been used successfully for the treatment of persistent air leak in patients with spontaneous secondary pneumothorax. The case history is presented of a 19 year old ...
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A structural and metabolic framework for classifying pre-clinical tuberculosis infection phenotypes using 18F-FDG PET-CT: a prospective cohort analysis following M. tuberculosis exposure ...
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COPD exacerbations · 3: Pathophysiology
Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Correspondence to: Dr D E O’Donnell Division of Respiratory and Critical Care ...