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We present our early experience with an attempt to optimize extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, emphasizing reduced adjunctive mechanical ventilatory support and aggressive rehabilitation, with a goal of ambulation. This strategy has been enabled by the introduction of a dual-lumen draw and return...
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PMID: 21924145
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Pulmonary suppuration is defined as necrosis of the pulmonary parenchyma caused by microbial infection. Pulmonary suppuration may be primary or secondary based upon the presence or absence of common associated conditions. Abscesses in patients prone to aspiration are usually consider...
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PMID: 21916187
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Monoclonal antibodies have emerged as a new class of agents causing drug-related pulmonary involvement in patients with systemic rheumatologic autoimmune diseases. The most frequently associated noninfectious pulmonary diseases are interstitial pneumonia (118 cases reported by August 2010), sarcoid-l...
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PMID: 21531225
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To document post-discharge feeding practices of preterm infants with chronic lung disease (CLD) and determine if sufficient protein and energy is consumed for optimal growth.
Protein and energy intakes of preterm infants with CLD were quantified through detailed analy...
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PMID: 21091585
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The theory of gastric CO(2) ventilation describes a previously unrecognized reflex mechanism controlled by neurons in the caudal solitary complex (cSC) for non-alveolar elimination of systemic CO(2) during respiratory acidosis. Neurons in the cSC, which is a site of CO(2) chemosensit...
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PMID: 21144912
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This article presents the results of a study on the association between measured air pollutants and the respiratory health of resident women and children in Lao PDR, one of the least developed countries in Southeast Asia. The study, commissioned by the World Health Organisation, included PM(10), CO...
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PMID: 20846211
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We have reported that human bronchial epithelial cells express AhR, and AhR activation induces mucin production through reactive oxygen species. This review discusses the role of AhR in lung disease, focusing in particular on airway epithelial cells. In addition, although it is not yet clear how the...
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PMID: 21646808
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While all states have regulations requiring reporting of diseases from healthcare professionals and facilities, underreporting is substantial. To improve reporting to the New York State (NYS) Occupational Lung Disease Registry (OLDR), the NYS Department of Health's Bureau of Occupati...
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PMID: 21337928
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This review focuses on vasculitides with prominent pulmonary manifestations and discusses key contributions from the recent literature. Pulmonary vasculitis should be considered when clinical findings include alveolar hemorrhage, nodular and cavitary lung disease, airway stenosis, pulmonary artery a...
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PMID: 20882372
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We aimed to determine the effect of femur fractures on mortality, pulmonary complications, and adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). In addition, we aimed to compare the effect of femur fractures with other major musculoskeletal injuries and to determine the effect of timing to surgery on thes...
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PMID: 21150530
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We aimed to develop a predictive index for a broad surgical population.
Patients undergoing surgical procedures given general, neuraxial, or regional anesthesia in 59 hospitals were randomly selected for this prospective, multicenter study. The main outcome was the development of at least one of the...
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PMID: 21045639
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We describe a new prophylactic method to repair the residual lobe by using an absorptive sheet and fibrin glue.
Between January 2009 and March 2010, 6 patients underwent this simple prophylactic fixation for lung torsion, and their clinical records were retrospectively reviewed.
No postoperative com...
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PMID: 21095357
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We performed a systematic and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials comparing a surgical sealant with buttressed staple lines using standard methods. The aim of our meta-analysis was to determine the effectiveness and safety of different techniques to reduce the proportion of patients with p...
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PMID: 21095309
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To investigate the effects of enalapril on the expressions of IL-1beta and IL-6 in the lung of rats treated with acrolein inhalation.
Inflammatory lung injury was induced by acrolein inhalation in rats. The rats were divided into natrium solution (NS) group, acrolein...
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PMID: 21265103
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We review some of the basic workings of unfolded protein response and relate them to processes that are of potential relevance to pulmonary disease....
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PMID: 21030513
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We review the cell and molecular biology as well as the prominent pathophysiological aspects of the endothelin system.
Copyright (c) 2010. Published by Elsevier Inc....
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PMID: 20466059
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This study examined the levels of interleukin (IL)-1β, IL-6, IL-8 and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) in peripheral blood of premature infants with chronic lung disease (CLD) in order to investigate the possible role of immunologic factors in CLD.
Twenty-six premature infants who had been admi...
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PMID: 21083977
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To determine the relationship of pulmonary abnormalities and bowel disease activity in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Thirty ulcerative colitis (UC) and nine Crohn's disease patients, and 20 control subjects were enrolled in this prospective study. Detailed clinical information was obtained. Exte...
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PMID: 20954282
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We present the case of a 49-year old male who presented with dyspnoea, cough, weight loss, night sweats and general malaise. He had been on treatment with oral fumaric acid esters (FAE, Fumaderm®; Biogen Idec GmbH, Ismaning, Germany) for 6 months.
Report of a case.
His chest X-ray showed pa...
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PMID: 20887349
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Nontuberculous mycobacteria were identified from 45891 samples of 19553 patients with a prediagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis between November 2004 and January 2009. Among 10041 (21.9%) culture positive samples, 208 (2.1%) pulmonary samples recovered from 77 individual patients were differentiated...
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PMID: 21213600
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Strain KIT 00200-70066-1(T) was isolated from the sputum of a patient with pulmonary disease. Cells of the strain were Gram-variable, facultatively anaerobic, motile, spore-forming rods and formed colourless to white colonies on tryptic soy agar at 30 °C and pH 7. The pathogenicity of...
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PMID: 19946060
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Information on the medical problems and diseases encountered by practicing Internists in the hospital environment is lacking. The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence of various diagnostic categories that present to internists in the hospital setting in Europe.
A pan-European study used the...
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PMID: 20816603
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We compared isolates obtained in 1999 and 2005 and used data from the Queensland notification scheme to report the clinical relevance of these isolates. The incidence of notified cases of clinically significant pulmonary disease rose from 2.2 (1999) to 3.2 (2005) per 100,000 population. The pattern...
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PMID: 20875283
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Cordyceps sinensis is a medicinal fungus of Traditional Chinese Medicine. There are a wide range of reported uses of Cordycep sinensis in the literature. However, the production of Cordyceps sinensis is so limited that can not be widely used. Cultured Cordyceps sinensis (Bailing Capsule) and natural...
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PMID: 21246839
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We observed 124 asymptomatic patients with a noncalcified single lung nodule highlighted by computerised tomography (CT) of the thorax. Patients were divided into 2 groups: Group A consisted of 57 patients with lesion diameters between 0.5 cm and 0.99 cm; Group B consisted of 67 patients with lesion...
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PMID: 20922626
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We investigated 147 patients suffering from Hodgkin's disease after a follow-up of at least 5 years from the completion of CT-RT. Seventy-eight patients were submitted to ABVD-RT, 36 to VEBEP-RT and 33 to MOPP-ABVD-RT. Patients underwent spirometry, 2D-doppler echocardiography at rest, cardiopulmona...
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PMID: 21036768
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Among 450 patients who underwent lung transplantation (LuT) between April 1994 and April 2009 at a single academic hospital, 75 received surgical consultation, and 52 underwent 65 abdominal operations. Operations included colectomy (17), cholecystectomy (14), exploratory laparotomy (10), ulcer repai...
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PMID: 21105627
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We examined whether erythromycin would eradicate intra-amniotic ureaplasma infections in pregnant sheep. At Gestational Day (GD) 50 (term, GD 150), pregnant ewes received intra-amniotic injections of erythromycin-sensitive Ureaplasma parvum serovar 3 (n = 16) or 10B medium (n = 16). At GD 100, amnio...
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PMID: 20610808
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Systematic review.
To determine whether early spinal stabilization in the multiple trauma patient is safe and does not increase morbidity or mortality.
There is no consensus regarding the timing of surgical stabilization of the injured spine, especially in patients with multiple trauma. Designing an...
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PMID: 20881461
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Although chemokines, as chemotactic factors, were already known in 70's of the past century, it was only the progress in molecular biology, genetics and immunology which occurred in the past few years that opened the way to discover new molecules, their chemical structure and biological functions. F...
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PMID: 19388544
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We report a rare case of retained wooden foreign body in the lung parenchyma that was found on chest X-ray and computerized tomography as a thick wall cavity. Surgical resection was performed and a wooden particle was revealed. Review of the literature shows that presence of wooden foreign bodies in...
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PMID: 21038131
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Goodpasture's syndrome is an autoimmune disease that has rarely been described in children, and only 21 cases have been reported till now. Here is a case of a 9-year-old boy who was diagnosed to have Goodpasture's syndrome.
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PMID: 20814136
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We report on the case of a teenager in whom the onset of CD was dominated by respiratory symptoms. Because of this presentation, we also suspected opportunistic infections such as tuberculosis and other granulomatous pulmonary diseases such as sarcoidosis or hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
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PMID: 20709507
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We have developed a CADx system for evaluation of pulmonary nodule based on a two-step feature selection and ensemble classifier algorithm. We have shown that by combining classifier ensemble algorithms in this two-step manner, it is possible to predict the malignancy for solitary pulmonary nodules...
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PMID: 20570118
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While variability between readers-based estimates of fissure integrity was smaller than differences between the computerized scheme and each of the readers, the result reported here are quite encouraging in that the magnitude of these differences were in the same magnitude, demonstrating the feasibi...
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PMID: 20964185
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Nuclear medicine techniques have the capacity to investigate neuronal dysfunction at the synapse level. For instance, metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) shows a similar uptake, storage and release as norepinephrine. Intravenously injected radiolabeled MIBG is able to reflect neuronal damage induced by i...
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PMID: 20592600
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The results showed a difference between the group with the highest socio-economic status and the other two groups [mean (standard deviation) FVC: high 3.63l (0.33), middle 3.57l (0.41), low 3.38l (0.35)]. The mean difference between the high and middle socio-economic groups was 0.07l [95% confidence...
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PMID: 20674650
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We present a systematic review of the literature, which we performed to compile data to describe better the syndrome of LON. Systematic studies, case series, and case reports were extracted. Most studies dealing with LON are retrospective by design and are limited by the heterogeneous populations in...
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PMID: 20827108
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We present the case of a 23-year-old woman with 2 episodes of hemoptysis. Computed tomography showed a small mass lesion with an adjacent cyst in the left lower lobe. On whole-body fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography, the lesion had a high focal fluorodeoxyglucose-upt...
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PMID: 20706053
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