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Author discuss possible pathogenetic mechanisms of obesity complications. He separates metabolic complications, especially risk factors of atherosclerosis collected in syndrome of insulin resistance. Here can be added also hyperuricaemia and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Mechanical complications...
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PMID: 21105450
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The aim of our study was to evaluate whether mild to moderate infant respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) treated with nasal continuous positive airway pressure (NCPAP) might affect the pulmonary function in school-aged children.
50 children, aged 10.2 +/- 2.8 years, with a history of RDS and 90 cont...
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PMID: 21114096
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Our objective was to develop a pediatric-specific prehospital research agenda.
Representatives from all 4 PECARN nodes and from EMS agency partners participated in a 3-step process. First, participants ranked potential research priorities and suggested others. Second, participants reranked the list...
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PMID: 20930604
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Assessing plant size-related differences based on self-reported working conditions and their influence on perceived symptoms at workplace.
A total of 799 metal workers from 9 small-sized enterprises (SE) and 10 medium-sized enterprises (ME) German metal working plants were interviewed in 2007/2008....
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PMID: 20657309
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We report an unusual case of a recurrent laryngeal vascular leiomyoma in a 64-year-old woman who also had a concurrent parathyroid adenoma and a history of breast carcinoma. A surgical resection via an external approach along with laser resection of a small glottic component was needed....
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PMID: 20737377
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We review the existing epidemiologic and toxicologic evidence on synergistic effects of stress and pollution, and describe the physiologic effects of stress and key issues related to measuring and evaluating stress as it relates to physical environmental exposures and susceptibility. Finally, we ide...
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PMID: 20694328
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A significant increase in hospital admissions was associated with a 10 microg/m3 increase in the concentration of black smoke, for cardiovascular diseases: 3.14% (< 0.01) in children and youth under 19 years of age, 1.85% (< 0.001) in 19-64 age group, and 0.84% (< 0.05) in all ages, and for respirat...
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PMID: 20629426
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The ventilation defects appeared on xenon ventilation CT in asthmatics with more severe airflow limitation and airway wall thickening. The extent of the ventilation defects showed correlations with parameters of pulmonary function test....
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PMID: 20404734
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Mechanical ventilation is considered a supportive, nontherapeutic technology used to perform the work of breathing for patients who are unable to do so on their own. In neonatology, mechanical ventilation is often used for premature neonates who are unable to sustain ventilation because of reduced f...
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PMID: 21090082
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We conducted a review of the literature over the last 16years that has addressed the impact of atmospheric pollution on respiratory symptoms in the general population to estimate the magnitude of effect. The majority of studies demonstrated a significant association between exposure to air pollutant...
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PMID: 20610077
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Many patients with VC thrombosis do not have peripheral vein thrombosis. Moreover, nearly one third of patients with VC thrombosis have negative pulmonary angiograms but do have dyspnea and tachypnea.
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PMID: 19914035
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Boris Jung,
Jean-Michel Constantin,
Nans Rossel,
Charlotte Le Goff,
Mustapha Sebbane,
Yannael Coisel,
Gerald Chanques,
Emmanuel Futier,
Gerald Hugon,
Xavier Capdevila,
Basil Petrof,
Stefan Matecki and
Samir Jaber
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After 72 h of ventilation, transdiaphragmatic pressure decreased by 30% of its baseline value in the CMV group, whereas it did not decrease in the ASV group. Although CMV was associated with an atrophy of the diaphragm (evaluated by mean cross-sectional area of both the slow and fast myosin chains),...
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PMID: 20460996
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We reviewed the epidemiologic evidence of potential health effects of Asian dust events. PubMed was used to search for the following keywords: Asian dust, yellow sand, desert dust, dust storm, sandstorm, mortality, death, morbidity, hospitalization, hospital admission, health, pulmonary and respirat...
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PMID: 20508385
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We adopted a new 2-stage case-control design that is efficient when both exposure and disease are rare. Based on our experience in conducting air pollution epidemiologic studies, we review 2-stage case-control designs, case-crossover designs, generalized linear models, generalized additive models, a...
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PMID: 20431236
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This case report describes an 11-year-old Belgian Malinois dog with acute onset of cough caused by aspiration of barium-impregnated polyethylene spheres (BIPS) and pneumonia following an episode of suspected gastric dilation. Although bronchoscopic retrieval of the BIPS was largely unsuccessful, the...
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PMID: 20529021
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Readmission rates are associated with higher numbers of annual admissions and higher proportions of children discharged on the day of admission. Variations between hospitals suggest that other factors can also affect readmission rates. Readmission rates calculated from HES can contribute to assessme...
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PMID: 19773219
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Both aerosolized L-epinephrine and budesonide were equally effective in their initial therapeutic response in post-extubation stridor. However, epinephrine showed a more sustained effect....
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PMID: 19736368
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After superior vena cava (SVC) resection, the need for reconstruction varies among tangential resection, pericardial patch repair and prosthetic replacement. Patients undergoing complete prosthetic replacement often require a different surgical approach, intra-operative SVC cross-cla...
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PMID: 19939694
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We examined whether the incidence of neonatal respiratory disorders has increased with the increased rate of elective cesarean delivery in twin pregnancies. We reviewed the obstetric records of 292 twin deliveries with vertex presentation of the first twin after 37 weeks' gestation at our hospital f...
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PMID: 20453421
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The objective of the study is to evaluate the effect of the daily variation in concentrations of fine particulate matter (diameter less than 2.5 microm--PM2.5) resulting from the burning of biomass on the daily number of hospitalizations of children and elderly people for respiratory diseases, in Al...
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PMID: 20512215
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Chest indrawing was an independent predictor of hipoxemia (SaO2 < or = 95 and SaO2 < or = 91) (OR: 3.1 IC95%:1.6-5.9 and OR: 13.8 IC95%:1.8-105.4, respectively). The Argentinean score showed acceptable correlation with SaO2 (Spearman: -0,492; p< 0,0001). On SaO2 < or = 91 the Argentinean score showe...
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PMID: 20467706
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The crude death rate of respiratory disease in survey districts (2004-2005) was 100.12/100 000 (144 106 cases), the standardized death rate was 87.56/100 000. The crude death rate and standardized death rate in male were 106.49/100 000 (77 709 cases) and 104.52/100 000. Those in female were 95.27/10...
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PMID: 20654140
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We report the anesthetic management in a 13-year-old girl with Joubert syndrome, scheduled for cauterization of nasal mucosa under general anesthesia. She had episodes of tachypnea and apnea. Oral midazolam 10 mg and famotidine 20 mg were administered 30 min before surgery. Anesthesia was induced an...
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PMID: 20229761
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Conducted energy weapons (CEWs), such as TASER devices, may be applied to subjects in repeated or long-duration modes. Such applications may result in more potentially harmful effects (as reflected in blood factor changes) than shorter exposures. In this review, results from a number of studies of r...
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PMID: 19936976
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In infants, it is not always easy to distinguish between pathological and physiological gastroesophageal reflux based only on clinical criteria. In Brazil, studies about gastroesophageal reflux disease in infants are few and are even rare those that used prolonged esophageal pH monitoring for its ev...
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PMID: 20520978
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Vocal cord dysfunction involves inappropriate vocal cord motion that produces partial airway obstruction. Patients may present with respiratory distress that is often mistakenly diagnosed as asthma. Exercise, psychological conditions, airborne irritants, rhinosinusitis, gastroesophageal reflux disea...
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PMID: 20082511
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Expansion thoracoplasty of the constricted left hemithorax improved scoliosis but increased left lung volumes only moderately compared with Disease rabbits. For Disease and Thoracoplasty Treated rabbits, a compensatory increase in the volume of the right lung maintained total lung volumes equivalent...
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PMID: 20081510
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Of the methods used to calculate the MDC, the 95% limits of agreement and the reliable change index yielded the largest estimates. In the patient-rated psychometric instruments, 0.5 SD was always greater than 1 standard error of measurements (SEM), and both fell between the mean change and the ROC e...
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PMID: 19800198
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We analyze these effects, treatment of intoxication, and long-term sequelae, drawing on our experience and a review of the literature....
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PMID: 20109388
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Around adolescence and thereafter, many cases with severe cerebral palsy have worsening of respiration and swallowing due to worsening of deformity and other factors. Appropriate management including prone positioning, naso-pharyngeal air-way, and positive pressure breathing with mask and bag or in-...
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PMID: 20077786
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We performed a cross-sectional study including 80 subjects employed in the coking unit of a petroleum refinery (54 males and 26 females, aged 28-56 years, duration of exposure 7-28 years) and an equal number of office workers, matched by sex, age and smoking habits. Asthma and allergic rhinitis diag...
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PMID: 21105591
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The results suggest that the levels of particulate matter from biomass burning in the Amazon are associated with adverse effects on the respiratory health of children....
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PMID: 20209226
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A J Elliot,
N Singh,
P Loveridge,
S Harcourt,
S Smith,
R Pnaiser,
K Kavanagh,
C Robertson,
C N Ramsay,
J McMenamin,
A Kibble,
V Murray,
S Ibbotson,
M Catchpole,
B McCloskey and
G E Smith
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The Health Protection Agency and Health Protection Scotland used existing syndromic surveillance systems to monitor community health in the UK following the volcanic eruption in Iceland in April 2010.
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PMID: 20546694
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The emergence of the 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) virus in North America and its subsequent global spread highlights the public health need for early warning of infectious disease outbreaks. Event-based biosurveillance, based on local- and regional-level Internet media reports, is one approach to...
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PMID: 20684815
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The relation between respiratory disorders and reflux symptoms has been debated since the beginning of the last century and the interest in this question has increased during the last few decades. This study aims to investigate the relation between specified respiratory disorders and reflux symptoms...
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PMID: 20339176
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We review four issues related to interaction of NO and lung helminthic diseases. Firstly, we evaluated data available on the NO synthesis and release by helminths and their biological role. Next, we summarized the effect of antigens obtained from different phases of the biological cycle on NO produc...
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PMID: 20169170
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Tachypnoea is one of the first signs of patient deterioration and accurate measurement of respiratory rate is a fundamental part of assessment. This article aims to describe the assessment and management of tachypnoea.
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PMID: 20218442
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We review the applications and controversies of a non-invasive method of defining reflux injury in the lung transplant population: the detection of biomarkers of aspiration in the exhaled breath condensate. Only by means of assay standardization and directed collaboration may such a non-invasive met...
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PMID: 20331688
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Alfonso Cristaudo,
Rudy Foddis,
Alessandra Bonotti,
Silvia Simonini,
Agnese Vivaldi,
Giovanni Guglielmi,
Nicolino Ambrosino,
Pier Aldo Canessa,
Antonio Chella,
Marco Lucchi,
Alfredo Mussi and
Luciano Mutti
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We measured OPN in 239 plasma samples from 207 asbestos-exposed subjects including 94 healthy controls and 113 subjects with BRD, and 32 patients with epithelial MPM, employing a commercially available ELISA. Serum OPN was measured in 196 of the same 239 samples from 80 healthy subjects, 92 BRD pati...
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PMID: 20878622
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Risk factors for wheezing specifically during the first year of life have been studied in well-developed countries, but the information from developing countries is very scarce. There are no such studies focusing on factors derived from poverty. The aim of the present study was to determine if risk...
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PMID: 20338682
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Late preterm infants are physiologically immature and at risk for respiratory complications. The study's objective was to determine the incidence of respiratory illnesses in a group of preterm infants (33-35 weeks) during the first six months of life.
Parents were contacted by phone in the six month...
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PMID: 20853568
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These findings suggest that COPD patients with diaphragmatic dysfunction, characterized by low diaphragm mobility, have a higher risk of death than do those without such dysfunction....
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PMID: 20126918
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It is necessary to expand the survey to the entire country population. Country results are likely to be useful and interesting for local doctors and managers, as well as for officials....
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PMID: 20440917
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Of the 245 patients whose records were audited, 185 were male; mean age was 70 years (SD, 10), and mean APACHE II score was 17.5 (SD, 5.14). Almost half the patients (122, 49.8%) were extubated within 8 hours of ICU admission. The most common oxygen delivery device used immediately after extubation...
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PMID: 20001870
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Different designs can be used to analyze the relationships between respiratory mortality and long term exposure to atmospheric pollution: epidemiological studies (cohort, prevalence study) demonstrate the reality of the relationship and toxicological studies explain it. Cohort studies have the advan...
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PMID: 20032841
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Endotoxins are cell-wall components of Gram-negative bacteria that are commonly present in plants and plant products and in faecal matter. This review presents an overview of endotoxin exposure levels, associated health effects, and relevance regarding veterinary practice. Exposure to airborne endot...
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PMID: 19891327
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There were 3.2 billion airline passengers in 2006, compared to only 30 million in 1950. Intercontinental health disparities create a risk of pandemics such as SARS and so-called bird flu. Precautions are now being implemented both in airports and in aircraft, in addition to measures intended to prev...
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PMID: 20669640
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