Ausgabe 1/2012
Inhalt (81 Artikel)
Up-to-date on mortality in COPD - report from the OLIN COPD study
Anne Lindberg, Lars-Gunnar Larsson, Hana Muellerova, Eva Rönmark, Bo Lundbäck
Systemic air embolism during percutaneous core needle biopsy of the lung: frequency and risk factors
Martin C Freund, Johannes Petersen, Katharina C Goder, Tillmann Bunse, Franz Wiedermann, Bernhard Glodny
A phase I study evaluating the pharmacokinetics, safety and tolerability of an antibody-based tissue factor antagonist in subjects with acute lung injury or acute respiratory distress syndrome
Peter E Morris, Jay S Steingrub, Bee Y Huang, Shamay Tang, Patrick M Liu, Peter R Rhode, Hing C Wong
Erratum to: effect of low tidal ventilation on lung function and inflammation in mice
Hans P Hauber, Dörte Karp, Torsten Goldmann, Ekkehard Vollmer, Peter Zabel
Population prevalence of asthma and its determinants based on European Community Respiratory Health Survey in the United Arab Emirates
Bassam H Mahboub, Suleiman Al-Hammadi, Mohamed Rafique, Nabil Sulaiman, Ruby Pawankar, Abdulla I Al Redha, Atul C Mehta
Interleukin 6, lipopolysaccharide-binding protein and interleukin 10 in the prediction of risk and etiologic patterns in patients with community-acquired pneumonia: results from the German competence network CAPNETZ
Katrin Zobel, Peter Martus, Mathias W Pletz, Santiago Ewig, Michael Prediger, Tobias Welte, Frank Bühling
The relationship of systemic inflammation to prior hospitalization in adult patients with cystic fibrosis
David A Ngan, Pearce G Wilcox, May Aldaabil, Yuexin Li, Jonathon A Leipsic, Don D Sin, SF Paul Man
Epidemiology of tobacco use and dependence in adults in a poor peri-urban community in Lima, Peru
Paul Logan Weygandt, Elisa Vidal-Cardenas, Robert H Gilman, Erika Avila-Tang, Lilia Cabrera, William Checkley
Cough aerosol in healthy participants: fundamental knowledge to optimize droplet-spread infectious respiratory disease management
Gustavo Zayas, Ming C Chiang, Eric Wong, Fred MacDonald, Carlos F Lange, Ambikaipakan Senthilselvan, Malcolm King
Particular characteristics of allergic symptoms in tropical environments: follow up to 24 months in the FRAAT birth cohort study
Nathalie Acevedo, Jorge Sánchez, Josefina Zakzuk, Adriana Bornacelly, Carlos Quiróz, Álvaro Alvarez, Marta Puello, Ketty Mendoza, Dalgys Martínez, Dilia Mercado, Silvia Jiménez, Luis Caraballo
The effect of obesity on spirometry tests among healthy non-smoking adults
Mohammed Al Ghobain
Lung function decline in relation to diagnostic criteria for airflow obstruction in respiratory symptomatic subjects
Reinier P Akkermans, Marvin A Berrevoets, Ivo J Smeele, Annelies E Lucas, Bart P Thoonen, Joke G Grootens-Stekelenburg, Yvonne F Heijdra, Chris van Weel, Tjard R Schermer
Non drowsy obstructive sleep apnea as a potential cause of resistant hypertension: a case report
Aibek E Mirrakhimov
Detection of air trapping in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by low frequency ultrasound
Katrin Morenz, Heike Biller, Frank Wolfram, Steffen Leonhadt, Dirk Rüter, Thomas Glaab, Stefan Uhlig, Jens M Hohlfeld
Utilization and responsiveness of the asthma control test (ACT) at the initiation of therapy for patients with asthma: a randomized controlled trial
Mohamed S Al Moamary, Ahmed G Al-Kordi, Mohammed O Al Ghobain, Hani M Tamim
The surfactant protein C mutation A116D alters cellular processing, stress tolerance, surfactant lipid composition, and immune cell activation
Ralf Zarbock, Markus Woischnik, Christiane Sparr, Tobias Thurm, Sunčana Kern, Eva Kaltenborn, Andreas Hector, Dominik Hartl, Gerhard Liebisch, Gerd Schmitz, Matthias Griese
Determinants of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T during acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a prospective cohort study
Arne Didrik Høiseth, Torbjørn Omland, Tor-Arne Hagve, Pål H Brekke, Vidar Søyseth
Increased hospitalizations among sarcoidosis patients from 1998 to 2008: a population-based cohort study
Alicia K Gerke, Ming Yang, Fan Tang, Joseph E Cavanaugh, Philip M Polgreen
The prevalence of clinically-relevant comorbid conditions in patients with physician-diagnosed COPD: a cross-sectional study using data from NHANES 1999–2008
Kerry Schnell, Carlos O Weiss, Todd Lee, Jerry A Krishnan, Bruce Leff, Jennifer L Wolff, Cynthia Boyd
Prevalence of asthma and other allergic conditions in Colombia 2009–2010: a cross-sectional study
Rodolfo J Dennis, Luis Caraballo, Elizabeth García, María X Rojas, Martín A Rondon, Adriana Pérez, Gustavo Aristizabal, Augusto Peñaranda, Ana M Barragan, Velky Ahumada, Silvia Jimenez
Pirfenidone inhibits TGF-β1-induced over-expression of collagen type I and heat shock protein 47 in A549 cells
Keiko Hisatomi, Hiroshi Mukae, Noriho Sakamoto, Yuji Ishimatsu, Tomoyuki Kakugawa, Shintaro Hara, Hanako Fujita, Seiko Nakamichi, Hisashi Oku, Yoshishige Urata, Hiroshi Kubota, Kazuhiro Nagata, Shigeru Kohno
25-hydroxyvitamin D deficiency, exacerbation frequency and human rhinovirus exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Jennifer K Quint, Gavin C Donaldson, Nancy Wassef, John R Hurst, Michael Thomas, Jadwiga A Wedzicha
Oxidative stress mediated arterial dysfunction in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea and the effect of continuous positive airway pressure treatment
Maria Del Ben, Mario Fabiani, Lorenzo Loffredo, Licia Polimeni, Roberto Carnevale, Francesco Baratta, Marco Brunori, Fabiana Albanese, Teresa Augelletti, Francesco Violi, Francesco Angelico
Pulmonary function in adults with recent and former asthma and the role of sex and atopy
Yue Chen, Donna C Rennie, Punam Pahwa, James A Dosman
Ventilatory efficiency testing as prognostic value in patients with pulmonary hypertension
Martin Schwaiblmair, Christian Faul, Wolfgang von Scheidt, Thomas M Berghaus
Respiratory tract mortality in cement workers: a proportionate mortality study
George Rachiotis, Spyros Drivas, Konstantinos Kostikas, Vasilios Makropoulos, Christos Hadjichristodoulou
Evaluation of the effectiveness of manual chest physiotherapy techniques on quality of life at six months post exacerbation of COPD (MATREX): a randomised controlled equivalence trial
Jane L Cross, Frances Elender, Gary Barton, Allan Clark, Lee Shepstone, Annie Blyth, Max O Bachmann, Ian Harvey
Assessing health status in COPD. A head-to-head comparison between the COPD assessment test (CAT) and the clinical COPD questionnaire (CCQ)
Ioanna G Tsiligianni, Thys van der Molen, Despoina Moraitaki, Ilaine Lopez, Janwillem WH Kocks, Konstantinos Karagiannis, Nikolaos Siafakas, Nikolaos Tzanakis
Genetic influences on right ventricular systolic pressure (RVSP) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Janet G Shaw, Annette G Dent, Linda H Passmore, Darryl J Burstow, Rayleen V Bowman, Paul V Zimmerman, Kwun M Fong, Ian A Yang
The ACE gene D/I polymorphism as a modulator of severity of cystic fibrosis
Fernando A L Marson, Carmen S Bertuzzo, Taís D R Hortencio, José D Ribeiro, Luciana C Bonadia, Antônio F Ribeiro
“Neurologist's contribution to the diagnosis of sine materia respiratory insufficiency: case report”
Cristiano Carbonelli, Marialuisa Zedde, Alberto Cavazza, Nicola Facciolongo, Francesco Menzella, Lucia Spaggiari, Luigi Zucchi
Predictors for length of hospital stay in patients with community-acquired Pneumonia: Results from a Swiss Multicenter study
Isabelle Suter-Widmer, Mirjam Christ-Crain, Werner Zimmerli, Werner Albrich, Beat Mueller, Philipp Schuetz
Impact of clinical pathway on clinical outcomes in the management of COPD exacerbation
Andrea Ban, Aniza Ismail, Roslan Harun, Azahirafairud Abdul Rahman, Saperi Sulung, Aljunid Syed Mohamed
Influence of HIV infection on the clinical presentation and outcome of adults with acute community-acquired pneumonia in Yaounde, Cameroon: a retrospective hospital-based study
Eric Walter Pefura Yone, Adamou Dodo Balkissou, André Pascal Kengne, Christopher Kuaban
Comparison of human lung tissue mass measurements from Ex Vivo lungs and high resolution CT software analysis
Erik Henne, Joseph C Anderson, Norma Lowe, Steven Kesten
Pitfalls associated with the therapeutic reference pricing practice of asthma medication
Zoltan Kalo, Zsolt Abonyi-Toth, Zoltan Bartfai, Zoltan Voko
Reduced rhinovirus-specific antibodies are associated with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease requiring hospitalisation
Stephanie T Yerkovich, Belinda J Hales, Melanie L Carroll, Julie G Burel, Michelle A Towers, Daniel J Smith, Wayne R Thomas, John W Upham
Intratracheally administered titanium dioxide or carbon black nanoparticles do not aggravate elastase-induced pulmonary emphysema in rats
Agnès Roulet, Lucie Armand, Maylis Dagouassat, Françoise Rogerieux, Angélique Simon-Deckers, Esther Belade, Jeanne Tran Van Nhieu, Sophie Lanone, Jean-Claude Pairon, Ghislaine Lacroix, Jorge Boczkowski
Beta-blocker use and COPD mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Mahyar Etminan, Siavash Jafari, Bruce Carleton, John Mark FitzGerald
Safety and efficacy of fluticasone/formoterol combination therapy in adolescent and adult patients with mild-to-moderate asthma: a randomised controlled trial
Robert A Nathan, Anthony D’Urzo, Viktor Blazhko, Kirsten Kaiser
Multidimensional analyses to assess the relations between treatment choices by physicians and patients’ characteristics: the example of COPD
Nicolas Roche, Christos Chouaid, Bertrand Delclaux, Yan Martinat, Jean-Michel Marcos, Hervé Pégliasco, Bruno Scherrer
Nurse led versus lay educators support for those with asthma in primary care: a costing study
Nicola J Roberts, Kathleen A Boyd, Andrew H Briggs, Ann L Caress, Martyn R Partridge
Prevalence and correlations with depression, anxiety, and other features in outpatients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in China: a cross-sectional case control study
Peian Lou, Yanan Zhu, Peipei Chen, Pan Zhang, Jiaxi Yu, Ning Zhang, Na Chen, Lei Zhang, Hongmin Wu, Jing Zhao
Efficacy of once-daily indacaterol 75 μg relative to alternative bronchodilators in COPD: A study level and a patient level network meta-analysis
Shannon Cope, Jie Zhang, James Williams, Jeroen P Jansen
Classification and regression tree (CART) model to predict pulmonary tuberculosis in hospitalized patients
Fabio S Aguiar, Luciana L Almeida, Antonio Ruffino-Netto, Afranio Lineu Kritski, Fernanda CQ Mello, Guilherme L Werneck
Neutrophil necrosis and annexin 1 degradation associated with airway inflammation in lung transplant recipients with cystic fibrosis
Francis H C Tsao, Zhuzai Xiang, Adnan Abbasi, Keith C Meyer
A predictive tool for an effective use of 18F-FDG PET in assessing activity of sarcoidosis
Rémy LM Mostard, Sander MJ Van Kuijk, Johny A Verschakelen, Marinus JPG van Kroonenburgh, Patty J Nelemans, Petal AHM Wijnen, Marjolein Drent
Physiological relevance and performance of a minimal lung model – an experimental study in healthy and acute respiratory distress syndrome model piglets
Yeong Shiong Chiew, J Geoffrey Chase, Bernard Lambermont, Nathalie Janssen, Christoph Schranz, Knut Moeller, Geoffrey M Shaw, Thomas Desaive
Measurement of MMP-9 and -12 degraded elastin (ELM) provides unique information on lung tissue degradation
Helene Skjøt-Arkil, Rikke E Clausen, Quoc Hai Trieu Nguyen, Yaguo Wang, Qinlong Zheng, Fernando J Martinez, Cory M Hogaboam, Meilan Han, Lloyd B Klickstein, Martin R Larsen, Arkadiusz Nawrocki, Diana J Leeming, Morten A Karsdal
The elevation of serum napsin A in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, compared with KL-6, surfactant protein-A and surfactant protein-D
Takuya Samukawa, Tsutomu Hamada, Hirofumi Uto, Masakazu Yanagi, Go Tsukuya, Tsuyoshi Nosaki, Masahiro Maeda, Takashi Hirano, Hirohito Tsubouchi, Hiromasa Inoue
Obstructive sleep apnea and multimorbidity
Laurence Robichaud-Hallé, Michel Beaudry, Martin Fortin
The modified Medical Research Council scale for the assessment of dyspnea in daily living in obesity: a pilot study
Claire Launois, Coralie Barbe, Eric Bertin, Julie Nardi, Jeanne-Marie Perotin, Sandra Dury, François Lebargy, Gaëtan Deslee
Predicting asthma in preschool children with asthma symptoms: study rationale and design
Esther Hafkamp-de Groen, Hester F Lingsma, Daan Caudri, Alet Wijga, Vincent WV Jaddoe, Ewout W Steyerberg, Johan C de Jongste, Hein Raat
Storage conditions for stability of offline measurement of fractional exhaled nitric oxide after collection for epidemiologic research
Yoshiko Yoda, Naruhito Otani, Hideki Hasunuma, Hiroshi Kanegae, Masayuki Shima
Singing classes for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomized controlled trial
Victoria M Lord, Victoria J Hume, Julia L Kelly, Phoene Cave, Judith Silver, Maya Waldman, Chris White, Cayley Smith, Rebecca Tanner, Melissa Sanchez, William D-C Man, Michael I Polkey, Nicholas S Hopkinson
Patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease feel safe when treated at home: a qualitative study
Ying Wang, Torbjørn Haugen, Sissel Steihaug, Anne Werner
Progressive dyspnoea following the treatment of Mycobacterium abscessus infection in an individual with relapsing granulamatosis with polyangitis (Wegener’s), complicated by hearing loss requiring cochlear implantation
Senyo K Tagboto, Ajay G Venkatesh
Vital capacity and inspiratory capacity as additional parameters to evaluate bronchodilator response in asthmatic patients: a cross sectional study
Karen S Azevedo, Ronir R Luiz, Patricia RM Rocco, Marcus B Conde
Development, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a new out-patient Breathlessness Support Service: study protocol of a phase III fast-track randomised controlled trial
Claudia Bausewein, Caroline Jolley, Charles Reilly, Paula Lobo, Jane Kelly, Helene Bellas, Preety Madan, Caty Panell, Elmien Brink, Chiara De Biase, Wei Gao, Caroline Murphy, Paul McCrone, John Moxham, Irene J Higginson
Predictive value of daily living score in acute respiratory failure of COPD patients requiring invasive mechanical ventilation pilot study
Ketty Langlet, Thierry Van Der Linden, Claire Launois, Caroline Fourdin, Philippe Cabaret, Nadia Kerkeni, Coralie Barbe, François Lebargy, Gaetan Deslée
Over prescription of antibiotics for adult pharyngitis is prevalent in developing countries but can be reduced using McIsaac modification of Centor scores: a cross-sectional study
Amber Hanif Palla, Rafeeq Alam Khan, Anwar H Gilani, Fawziah Marra
Early intravenous unfractionated heparin and outcome in acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome – a retrospective propensity matched cohort study
Jorrit J Hofstra, Alexander P J Vlaar, David J Prins, Gavin Koh, Marcel Levi, Marcus J Schultz, Jan M Binnekade, Nicole P Juffermans
Bench experiments comparing simulated inspiratory effort when breathing helium-oxygen mixtures to that during positive pressure support with air
Andrew R Martin, Ira M Katz, Katharina Jenöfi, Georges Caillibotte, Laurent Brochard, Joëlle Texereau
Assessment of measurement properties of peak VO2in children with pulmonary arterial hypertension
Joseph C Cappelleri, Lie-Ju Hwang, Jack Mardekian, Marko A Mychaskiw
A novel model-based approach for dose determination of glycopyrronium bromide in COPD
Helen Arievich, Tim Overend, Didier Renard, Michael Gibbs, Vijay Alagappan, Michael Looby, Donald Banerji
Improving lung cancer survival; time to move on
Marlies E Heuvers, Joost P Hegmans, Bruno H Stricker, Joachim G Aerts
Changes in healthcare utilization and costs associated with sildenafil therapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension: a retrospective cohort study
Ariel Berger, John Edelsberg, Simon Teal, Marko A Mychaskiw, Gerry Oster
Factors associated with patient visits to the emergency department for asthma therapy
Hamdan AL-Jahdali, Ahmed Anwar, Abdullah AL-Harbi, Salim Baharoon, Rabih Halwani, Abdulllah Al Shimemeri, Saleh Al-Muhsen
Abdominal adiposity and obstructive airway disease: testing insulin resistance and sleep disordered breathing mechanisms
Matthew T Haren, Gary Misan, Tracey-Jayne Paterson, Richard E Ruffin, Janet F Grant, Jonathan D Buckley, Peter RC Howe, Jonathan Newbury, Anne W Taylor, Robyn A McDermott
Efficacy of a whole-body vibration intervention to effect exercise tolerance and functional performance of the lower limbs of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Trentham Furness, Nicole Bate, Liam Welsh, Geraldine Naughton, Christian Lorenzen
Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis: consideration of a clinicopathological entity in a series of Japanese patients
Hideki Kusagaya, Yutaro Nakamura, Masato Kono, Yusuke Kaida, Shigeki Kuroishi, Noriyuki Enomoto, Tomoyuki Fujisawa, Naoki Koshimizu, Koshi Yokomura, Naoki Inui, Takafumi Suda, Thomas V Colby, Kingo Chida
Confirmatory spirometry for adults hospitalized with a diagnosis of asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation
Valentin Prieto Centurion, Frank Huang, Edward T Naureckas, Carlos A Camargo Jr, Jeffrey Charbeneau, Min J Joo, Valerie G Press, Jerry A Krishnan
Pneumothorax Ex-vacuo or “trapped lung” in the setting of hepatic hydrothorax
Yan S Kim, Irawan Susanto, Catherine A Lazar, Ali Zarrinpar, Patricia Eshaghian, M Iain Smith, Ronald Busuttil, Tisha S Wang
Endotoxin as a determinant of asthma and wheeze among rural dwelling children and adolescents: A case–control study
Joshua A Lawson, James A Dosman, Donna C Rennie, Jeremy R Beach, Stephen C Newman, Trever Crowe, Ambikaipakan Senthilselvan
Airway symptoms and lung function in the local population after the oil tank explosion in Gulen, Norway
Jens-Tore Granslo, Magne Bråtveit, Bjørg Eli Hollund, Ågot Irgens, Cecilie Svanes, Nils Magerøy, Bente Elisabeth Moen
Correlation of respiratory symptoms and spirometric lung patterns in a rural community setting, Sindh, Pakistan: a cross sectional survey
Imran Naeem Abbasi, Adeel Ahsan, Asaad Ahmed Nafees
Health effects of the Federal Bureau of Prisons tobacco ban
Stephen A Martin, Bartolome R Celli, Joseph R DiFranza, Stephen J Krinzman, Jennifer G Clarke, Herbert Beam, Sandra Howard, Melissa Foster, Robert J Goldberg
Polymorphisms in ADRB2 gene can modulate the response to bronchodilators and the severity of cystic fibrosis
Fernando A L Marson, Carmen S Bertuzzo, Antônio F Ribeiro, José D Ribeiro
Symptoms of respiratory tract infection and associated care-seeking in subjects with and without obstructive lung disease; The Tromsø Study: Tromsø 6
Hasse Melbye, Lisa Joensen, Mette Bech Risør, Peder A Halvorsen
Inhaled corticosteroids inhibit substance P receptor expression in asthmatic rat airway smooth muscle cells
Miao Li, Yun-xiao Shang
A systematic review with attempted network meta-analysis of asthma therapy recommended for five to eighteen year olds in GINA steps three and four
Lonneke B van der Mark, PH Edo Lyklema, Ronald B Geskus, Jacob Mohrs, Patrick JE Bindels, Wim MC van Aalderen, Gerben ter Riet