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Airway obstruction lability helps distinguish levels of disease activity in asthma
02 February 2012
Steven Greenberg, Nancy Liu, Amarjot Kaur, Mani Lakshminarayanan, Yijie Zhou, Linda M. Nelsen, Steven S. Smugar, Gertrude Noonan, Theodore F. Reiss, Barbara A. Knorr
Summary: Classifying disease activity in asthma relies on clinical and physiological variables, but these variables do not capture all aspects of asthma that distinguish levels of disease activity. We...
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Ethnic and racial differences in the presence of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at death
01 February 2012
Jeffrey J. Swigris, Amy L. Olson, Tristan J. Huie, Evans R. Fernandez-Perez, Joshua Solomon, David Sprunger, Kevin K. Brown
Summary: Background: In studies of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), whites makeup the vast majority of subjects. Whether ethnic/racial differences in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis occur in the gen...
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HIV and asthma, is there an association?
30 January 2012
Jessica A. Kynyk, Jonathan P. Parsons, Michael F. Para, Susan L. Koletar, Philip T. Diaz, John G. Mastronarde
Summary: Objective: To evaluate whether asthma and airway hyper-responsiveness are associated with HIV infection. Methods: We reviewed the literature on HIV-associated pulmonary diseases, pulmonary sy...
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Rituximab therapy for refractory interstitial lung disease related to antisynthetase syndrome
27 January 2012
I. Marie, S. Dominique, A. Janvresse, H. Levesque, J-F. Menard
Summary: Objective: To report our experience using rituximab as therapy for refractory antisynthetase syndrome (ASS)-associated interstitial lung disease. Methods: We retrospectively evaluated the med...
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Inhaler mishandling is very common in patients with chronic airflow obstruction and long-term home nebuliser use
25 January 2012
Andrea S. Melani, PierAldo Canessa, Isotta Coloretti, Giuseppe DeAngelis, Renato DeTullio, Mario DelDonno, Raffaela Giacobbe, Ines Scarlato, Antonella Serafini, Natalino Barbato, Adriano Vaghi, Piersante Sestini
Summary: Inhalers and nebulisers are devices used for delivering aerosolised drugs in subjects with Chronic Airflow Obstruction (CAO). This multicentre, cross-sectional observational study was perform...
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