Ausgabe 1/2016
Inhalt (180 Artikel)
Acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute myocarditis developed in a previously healthy adult with influenza B
Hsu-Liang Chang, Jui-Feng Hsu, Ying-Ming Tsai, Shang-Yi Lin, Hsuan-Fu Kuo, Chih-Jen Yang
Clinical and economic burden of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a retrospective cohort study
Karina Raimundo, Eunice Chang, Michael S. Broder, Kimberly Alexander, James Zazzali, Jeffrey J. Swigris
Efficacy of omalizumab (Xolair®) in patients with moderate to severe predominately chronic oral steroid dependent asthma in Taiwan: a retrospective, population-based database cohort study
Hao-Cheng Chen, Chien-Da Huang, Erin Chang, Han-Pin Kuo
Seeking and sharing: why the pulmonary fibrosis community engages the web 2.0 environment
Karen Albright, Tarik Walker, Susan Baird, Linda Eres, Tara Farnsworth, Kaitlin Fier, Dolly Kervitsky, Marjorie Korn, David J. Lederer, Mark McCormick, John F. Steiner, Thomas Vierzba, Frederick S. Wamboldt, Jeffrey J. Swigris
Survival with sildenafil and inhaled iloprost in a cohort with pulmonary hypertension: an observational study
Henning Gall, Natascha Sommer, Katrin Milger, Manuel J. Richter, Robert Voswinckel, Dirk Bandorski, Werner Seeger, Friedrich Grimminger, Hossein-Ardeschir Ghofrani
Association between personal exposure to ambient metals and respiratory disease in Italian adolescents: a cross-sectional study
Maria José Rosa, Chiara Benedetti, Marco Peli, Filippo Donna, Marco Nazzaro, Chiara Fedrighi, Silvia Zoni, Alessandro Marcon, Neil Zimmerman, Rosalind Wright, Roberto Lucchini
Treatment patterns, resource use and costs of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in Spain – results of a Delphi Panel
Ferran Morell, Dirk Esser, Jonathan Lim, Susanne Stowasser, Alba Villacampa, Diana Nieves, Max Brosa
Formoterol as reliever medication in asthma: a post-hoc analysis of the subgroup of the RELIEF study in East Asia
Qi Jian Cheng, Shao-Guang Huang, Yu Zhi Chen, Jiang-Tao Lin, Xin Zhou, Bao-Yuan Chen, Yu-Lin Feng, Xia Ling, Malcolm R. Sears
Transient symptomatic hyperglycaemia secondary to inhaled fluticasone propionate in a young child
Mara Lelii, Nicola Principi, Susanna Esposito
Qualitative European survey of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: patients’ perspectives of the disease and treatment
Anne-Marie Russell, Elena Ripamonti, Carlo Vancheri
Childhood asthma prevalence and risk factors in three Eastern European countries - the Belarus, Ukraine, Poland Asthma Study (BUPAS): an international prevalence study
Grzegorz Brozek, Joshua Lawson, Andrei Shpakou, Olga Fedortsiv, Leonid Hryshchuk, Donna Rennie, Jan Zejda
Comparison of serious inhaler technique errors made by device-naïve patients using three different dry powder inhalers: a randomised, crossover, open-label study
Henry Chrystyn, David B. Price, Mathieu Molimard, John Haughney, Sinthia Bosnic-Anticevich, Federico Lavorini, John Efthimiou, Dawn Shan, Erika Sims, Anne Burden, Catherine Hutton, Nicolas Roche
Biological quality control for cardiopulmonary exercise testing in multicenter clinical trials
Janos Porszasz, Susan Blonshine, Robert Cao, Heather A. Paden, Richard Casaburi, Harry B. Rossiter
Diagnosis of acute kidney injury and its association with in-hospital mortality in patients with infective exacerbations of bronchiectasis: cohort study from a UK nationwide database
Masao Iwagami, Kathryn Mansfield, Jennifer Quint, Dorothea Nitsch, Laurie Tomlinson
Expert opinion of mediastinal lymph node positions from an intrabronchial view
Kjetil Roth, Tomas Eagan, Jon Hardie
Lung cancer risk test trial: study design, participant baseline characteristics, bronchoscopy safety, and establishment of a biospecimen repository
E. L. Crawford, A. Levin, F. Safi, M. Lu, A. Baugh, X. Zhang, J. Yeo, S. A. Khuder, A. M. Boulos, P. Nana-Sinkam, P. P. Massion, D. A. Arenberg, D. Midthun, P. J. Mazzone, S. D. Nathan, R. Wainz, G. Silvestri, J. Tita, J. C. Willey
Novel homozygous BMP9 nonsense mutation causes pulmonary arterial hypertension: a case report
Guoliang Wang, Rui Fan, Ruirui Ji, Wenxin Zou, Daniel J. Penny, Nidhy P. Varghese, Yuxin Fan
Graphic analysis of flow-volume curves: a pilot study
Jungsil Lee, Choon-Taek Lee, Jae Ho Lee, Young-Jae Cho, Jong Sun Park, Yeon-Mok Oh, Sang-Do Lee, Ho Il Yoon
Mycobacteria infect different cell types in the human lung and cause species dependent cellular changes in infected cells
Dariimaa Ganbat, Sophie Seehase, Elvira Richter, Ekkehard Vollmer, Norbert Reiling, Kurt Fellenberg, Karoline I. Gaede, Christian Kugler, Torsten Goldmann
Biopsy-proven IgG4-related lung disease
Xuefeng Sun, Hongrui Liu, Ruie Feng, Min Peng, Xiaomeng Hou, Ping Wang, Hanping Wang, Wenbing Xu, Juhong Shi
Case report: Subjective loss of performance after pulmonary embolism in an athlete– beyond normal values
Daniel Dumitrescu, Felix Gerhardt, Thomas Viethen, Matthias Schmidt, Eckhard Mayer, Stephan Rosenkranz
Evaluating the interstitial lung disease multidisciplinary meeting: a survey of expert centres
Helen E. Jo, Tamera J. Corte, Yuben Moodley, Kovi Levin, Glen Westall, Peter Hopkins, Daniel Chambers, Ian Glaspole
Microbial yield from physiotherapy assisted sputum production in respiratory outpatients
Philip J. Langridge, Reyenna L. Sheehan, David W. Denning
Isolated anterior mediastinal tuberculosis in an immunocompetent patient
S. Maguire, S. H. Chotirmall, V. Parihar, L. Cormican, C. Ryan, C O’Keane, K. Redmond, C. Smyth
A randomised controlled trial of supplemental oxygen versus medical air during exercise training in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: supplemental oxygen in pulmonary rehabilitation trial (SuppORT) (Protocol)
Jennifer A Alison, Zoe J McKeough, Sue C Jenkins, Anne E Holland, Kylie Hill, Norman R Morris, Regina WM Leung, Kathleen A Williamson, Lissa M Spencer, Catherine J Hill, Annemarie L Lee, Helen Seale, Nola Cecins, Christine F McDonald
Later emergence of acquired drug resistance and its effect on treatment outcome in patients treated with Standard Short-Course Chemotherapy for tuberculosis
Jingtao Gao, Yan Ma, Jian Du, Guofeng Zhu, Shouyong Tan, Yanyong Fu, Liping Ma, Lianying Zhang, Feiying Liu, Daiyu Hu, Yanling Zhang, Xiangqun Li, Liang Li, Qi Li
Impaired nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 expression increases apoptosis of airway epithelial cells in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease due to cigarette smoking
Kazuhiro Yamada, Kazuhisa Asai, Fumihiro Nagayasu, Kanako Sato, Naoki Ijiri, Naoko Yoshii, Yumiko Imahashi, Tetsuya Watanabe, Yoshihiro Tochino, Hiroshi Kanazawa, Kazuto Hirata
Risk factors for COPD exacerbations in inhaled medication users: the COPDGene study biannual longitudinal follow-up prospective cohort
Robert Busch, MeiLan K. Han, Russell P. Bowler, Mark T. Dransfield, J Michael Wells, Elizabeth A. Regan, Craig P. Hersh
Corticosteroids in treatment of aspiration-related acute respiratory distress syndrome: results of a retrospective cohort study
Jiang-nan Zhao, Yao Liu, Huai-chen Li
Simultaneous development of sarcoidosis and cutaneous vasculitis in a patient with refractory Crohn’s disease during infliximab therapy
Tadahisa Numakura, Tsutomu Tamada, Masayuki Nara, Soshi Muramatsu, Koji Murakami, Toshiaki Kikuchi, Makoto Kobayashi, Miho Muroi, Tatsuma Okazaki, Sho Takagi, Yoshinobu Eishi, Masakazu Ichinose
Analysis of mitochondrial DNA alteration in new phenotype ACOS
G. E. Carpagnano, D. Lacedonia, M. Malerba, G. A. Palmiotti, G. Cotugno, M. Carone, M. P. Foschino-Barbaro
Home Non Invasive Ventilation (NIV) treatment for COPD patients with a history of NIV-treated exacerbation; a randomized, controlled, multi-center study
Kasper Linde Ankjærgaard, Philip Tønnesen, Lars Christian Laursen, Ejvind Frausing Hansen, Helle Frost Andreassen, Jon Torgny Wilcke
Knowledge and perceptions of asthma in Zambia: a cross-sectional survey
Emilia Jumbe Marsden, Somwe Wa Somwe, Chishala Chabala, Joan B. Soriano, Cesar Picado Vallès, Julio Anchochea
The relationship between serum fatty-acid binding protein 4 level and lung function in Korean subjects with normal ventilatory function
Hye-Jeong Park, Se Eun Park, Cheol-Young Park, Seong Yong Lim, Won-Young Lee, Ki-Won Oh, Sung-Woo Park, Eun-Jung Rhee
Study protocol for an evaluation of the effectiveness of ‘care bundles’ as a means of improving hospital care and reducing hospital readmission for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
M. J. E. Chalder, C. L. Wright, K. J. P. Morton, P. Dixon, A. R. Daykin, S. Jenkins, J. Benger, J. Calvert, A. Shaw, C. Metcalfe, W. Hollingworth, S. Purdy
BMC Pulmonary Medicine reviewer acknowledgement 2015
Dirk Krüger
Applicability of visceral adiposity index in predicting metabolic syndrome in adults with obstructive sleep apnea: a cross-sectional study
Gong-Ping Chen, Jia-Chao Qi, Bi-Ying Wang, Xin Lin, Xiao-Bin Zhang, Jian-Ming Zhao, Xiao Fang Chen, Ting Lin, Dong-Dong Chen, Qi-Chang Lin
Administration of nintedanib after discontinuation for acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a case report
Satoshi Ikeda, Akimasa Sekine, Tomohisa Baba, Hideaki Yamakawa, Masato Morita, Hideya Kitamura, Takashi Ogura
A mortality prediction rule for non-elderly patients with community-acquired pneumonia
Masato Tashiro, Kiyohide Fushimi, Takahiro Takazono, Shintaro Kurihara, Taiga Miyazaki, Misuzu Tsukamoto, Katsunori Yanagihara, Hiroshi Mukae, Takayoshi Tashiro, Shigeru Kohno, Koichi Izumikawa
The use of inhaled antibiotic therapy in the treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia and tracheobronchitis: a systematic review
Christopher J. Russell, Mark S. Shiroishi, Elizabeth Siantz, Brian W. Wu, Cecilia M. Patino
Safety of indwelling pleural catheter use in patients undergoing chemotherapy: a five-year retrospective evaluation
Charleen Chan Wah Hak, Parthipan Sivakumar, Liju Ahmed
A randomized, double-blinded, double-dummy efficacy and safety study of budesonide–formoterol Spiromax® compared to budesonide–formoterol Turbuhaler® in adults and adolescents with persistent asthma
J. Christian Virchow, Roberto Rodriguez-Roisin, Alberto Papi, Tushar P. Shah, Gokul Gopalan
Infection biomarkers in primary care patients with acute respiratory tract infections–comparison of Procalcitonin and C-reactive protein
Marc Meili, Alexander Kutz, Matthias Briel, Mirjam Christ-Crain, Heiner C. Bucher, Beat Mueller, Philipp Schuetz
Erratum to: Knowledge and perceptions of asthma in Zambia: a cross-sectional survey
Emilia Jumbe Marsden, Somwe Wa Somwe, Chishala Chabala, Joan B. Soriano, Cesar Picado Vallès, Julio Ancochea
Early mortality in lung cancer: French prospective multicentre observational study
Michel Grivaux, Didier Debieuvre, Dominique Herman, Christine Lemonnier, Jean-Michel Marcos, Jacky Crequit, Sylvie Vuillermoz-Blas, Patricia Barre, Marie Saillour, Francis Martin
Detailed analysis of sputum and systemic inflammation in asthma phenotypes: are paucigranulocytic asthmatics really non-inflammatory?
Sophie Demarche, Florence Schleich, Monique Henket, Virginie Paulus, Thierry Van Hees, Renaud Louis
Prevalence of thoracic pain in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and relationship with patient characteristics: a cross-sectional observational study
D. J. A. Janssen, E. F. M. Wouters, Y. Lozano Parra, K. Stakenborg, F. M. E. Franssen
The estimated prevalence of exposure to asthmagens in the Australian workforce, 2014
Lin Fritschi, Julie Crewe, Ellie Darcey, Alison Reid, Deborah C. Glass, Geza P. Benke, Tim Driscoll, Susan Peters, Si Si, Michael J. Abramson, Renee N. Carey
Ectopic expression of a small cell lung cancer transcription factor, INSM1 impairs alveologenesis in lung development
Chiachen Chen, Mary B. Breslin, Michael S. Lan
Extracellular microRNA-21 and microRNA-26a increase in body fluids from rats with antigen induced pulmonary inflammation and children with recurrent wheezing
Congshan Jiang, Hongchuan Yu, Qingzhu Sun, Wenhua Zhu, Jing Xu, Ning Gao, Rui Zhang, Li Liu, Xiaoying Wu, Xudong Yang, Liesu Meng, Shemin Lu
Role of CD248 as a potential severity marker in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Domokos Bartis, Louise E. Crowley, Vijay K. D’Souza, Lee Borthwick, Andrew J. Fisher, Adam P. Croft, Judit E. Pongrácz, Richard Thompson, Gerald Langman, Christopher D. Buckley, David R. Thickett
Extra corporeal membrane oxygenation to facilitate lung protective ventilation and prevent ventilator-induced lung injury in severe Pneumocystis pneumonia with pneumomediastinum: a case report and short literature review
Husain Shabbir Ali, Ibrahim Fawzy Hassan, Saibu George
Treatment of multiple-level tracheobronchial stenosis secondary to endobronchial tuberculosis using bronchoscopic balloon dilatation with topical mitomycin-C
Mohamed Faisal, Hafaruzi Harun, Tidi M. Hassan, Andrea Y. L. Ban, Sanjay H. Chotirmall, Jamalul Azizi Abdul Rahaman
Mean pulmonary arterial pressure as a prognostic indicator in connective tissue disease associated with interstitial lung disease: a retrospective cohort study
Kota Takahashi, Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Masahiko Ando, Koji Sakamoto, Yasuhiro Kondoh, Naohiro Watanabe, Tomoki Kimura, Kensuke Kataoka, Atsushi Suzuki, Satoru Ito, Yoshinori Hasegawa
Age of asthma onset and vulnerability to ambient air pollution: an observational population-based study of adults from Southern Taiwan
Tsung-Ju Wu, Chang-Fu Wu, Bing-Yu Chen, Yungling Leo Lee, Yue Leon Guo
Effects of a 12-month multi-faceted mentoring intervention on knowledge, quality, and usage of spirometry in primary care: a before-and-after study
Samir Gupta, Dilshad Moosa, Ana MacPherson, Christopher Allen, Itamar E. Tamari
The first reported case of Burkholderia contaminans in patients with cystic fibrosis in Ireland: from the Sargasso Sea to Irish Children
Rachel F. Power, Barry Linnane, Ruth Martin, Noelle Power, Peig Harnett, Brian Casserly, Nuala H. O’Connell, Colum P. Dunne
Lung functions among patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Dar es Salaam – a cross-sectional study
Mohamed Manji, Grace Shayo, Simon Mamuya, Rose Mpembeni, Ahmed Jusabani, Ferdinand Mugusi
Effects of acute hemorrhage on intrapulmonary shunt in a pig model of acute respiratory distress-like syndrome
Nils Siegenthaler, Raphael Giraud, Delphine S. Courvoisier, Claes U. Wiklund, Karim Bendjelid
Design of a prospective, multicenter, global, cohort study of electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy
Erik E. Folch, Mark R. Bowling, Thomas R. Gildea, Kristin L. Hood, Septimiu D. Murgu, Eric M. Toloza, Momen M. Wahidi, Terence Williams, Sandeep J. Khandhar
Effectiveness of the Polish program for the treatment of severe allergic asthma with omalizumab: a single-center experience
Izabela Kupryś-Lipińska, Paweł Majak, Joanna Molinska, Piotr Kuna
Ultrathin bronchoscopy for solitary pulmonary lesions in a region endemic for tuberculosis: a randomised pilot trial
Daniel Franzen, Andreas H. Diacon, Lutz Freitag, Pawel T. Schubert, Colleen A. Wright, Macé M. Schuurmans
The relationship between exercise induced bronchial obstruction and health related quality of life in female and male adolescents from a general population
Henrik Johansson, Katarina Norlander, Christer Janson, Andrei Malinovschi, Leif Nordang, Margareta Emtner
Practice and knowledge about diagnosis and treatment of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency in Spain and Portugal
Cristina Esquinas, Miriam Barrecheguren, Maria Sucena, Esther Rodriguez, Sandra Fernandez, Marc Miravitlles
Efficacy and safety of ipratropium bromide/albuterol compared with albuterol in patients with moderate-to-severe asthma: a randomized controlled trial
James F. Donohue, Robert Wise, William W. Busse, Sandra Garfinkel, Valentina B. Zubek, Mo Ghafouri, Raymond C. Manuel, Rozsa Schlenker-Herceg, Eugene R. Bleecker
Impact of a bronchial genomic classifier on clinical decision making in patients undergoing diagnostic evaluation for lung cancer
J. Scott Ferguson, Ryan Van Wert, Yoonha Choi, Michael J. Rosenbluth, Kate Porta Smith, Jing Huang, Avrum Spira
Periostin levels and eosinophilic inflammation in poorly-controlled asthma
Jodie L. Simpson, Ian A. Yang, John W. Upham, Paul N. Reynolds, Sandra Hodge, Alan L. James, Christine Jenkins, Matthew J. Peters, Guiquan Jia, Cecile T. J. Holweg, Peter G. Gibson
A retrospective analysis to identify predictors of COPD-related rehospitalization
Melissa H. Roberts, Emmanuelle Clerisme-Beaty, Chris M. Kozma, Andrew Paris, Terra Slaton, Douglas W. Mapel
Exposure to high endotoxin concentration increases wheezing prevalence among laboratory animal workers: a cross-sectional study
Amanda Souza Freitas, Christian Silva Simoneti, Erica Ferraz, Ericson Bagatin, Izaira Tincani Brandão, Celio Lopes Silva, Marcos Carvalho Borges, Elcio Oliveira Vianna
Assessing health-related quality of life in COPD: comparing generic and disease-specific instruments with focus on comorbidities
Margarethe E. Wacker, Rudolf A. Jörres, Annika Karch, Sarah Wilke, Joachim Heinrich, Stefan Karrasch, Armin Koch, Holger Schulz, Henrik Watz, Reiner Leidl, Claus Vogelmeier, Rolf Holle
A case of Meigs’ syndrome with preceding pericardial effusion in advance of pleural effusion
Kenichi Okuda, Satoshi Noguchi, Osamu Narumoto, Masako Ikemura, Yasuhiro Yamauchi, Goh Tanaka, Daiya Takai, Masashi Fukayama, Takahide Nagase
Pulmonary arterial hypertension in adult onset Still’s disease: a case report of a severe complication
L. Guilleminault, S. Laurent, A. Foucher, P. Poubeau, F. Paganin
Vitamin D deficiency associates with susceptibility to tuberculosis in Pakistan, but polymorphisms in VDR, DBP and CYP2R1 do not
Kashaf Junaid, Abdul Rehman, David A. Jolliffe, Tahir Saeed, Kristie Wood, Adrian R. Martineau
Phenotyping of difficult asthma using longitudinal physiological and biomarker measurements reveals significant differences in stability between clusters
T. Zaihra, C. J. Walsh, S. Ahmed, C. Fugère, Q. A. Hamid, R. Olivenstein, J. G. Martin, A. Benedetti
The temporal relationship between poor lung function and the risk of diabetes
Suneela Zaigham, Peter M. Nilsson, Per Wollmer, Gunnar Engström
Radial endobronchial ultrasound with a guide sheath for diagnosis of peripheral cavitary lung lesions: a retrospective study
Manabu Hayama, Norio Okamoto, Hidekazu Suzuki, Motohiro Tamiya, Takayuki Shiroyama, Ayako Tanaka, Takuji Nishida, Takashi Nishihara, Nobuko Uehara, Naoko Morishita, Kunimitsu Kawahara, Tomonori Hirashima
A systematic review of the burden of vaccine preventable pneumococcal disease in UK adults
James D. Chalmers, James Campling, Alison Dicker, Mark Woodhead, Harish Madhava
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus acquisition in healthcare workers with cystic fibrosis: a retrospective cross-sectional study
Michelle E. Wood, Laura J. Sherrard, Kay A. Ramsay, Stephanie T. Yerkovich, David W. Reid, Timothy J. Kidd, Scott C. Bell
The significance of oral streptococci in patients with pneumonia with risk factors for aspiration: the bacterial floral analysis of 16S ribosomal RNA gene using bronchoalveolar lavage fluid
Kentaro Akata, Kazuhiro Yatera, Kei Yamasaki, Toshinori Kawanami, Keisuke Naito, Shingo Noguchi, Kazumasa Fukuda, Hiroshi Ishimoto, Hatsumi Taniguchi, Hiroshi Mukae
Effectiveness of initiating extrafine-particle versus fine-particle inhaled corticosteroids as asthma therapy in the Netherlands
Thys van der Molen, Dirkje S. Postma, Richard J. Martin, Ron M. C. Herings, Jetty A. Overbeek, Victoria Thomas, Cristiana Miglio, Richard Dekhuijzen, Nicolas Roche, Theresa Guilbert, Elliot Israel, Wim van Aalderen, Elizabeth V. Hillyer, Simon van Rysewyk, David B. Price
CHI3L1 polymorphisms, cord blood YKL-40 levels and later asthma development
Jakob Usemann, Urs Frey, Ines Mack, Anne Schmidt, Olga Gorlanova, Martin Röösli, Dominik Hartl, Philipp Latzin
Case report: a patient with pulmonary arterial hypertension transitioning from a PDE-5 inhibitor to Riociguat
David S. Poch
Interactive digital interventions to promote self-management in adults with asthma: systematic review and meta-analysis
Gary McLean, Elizabeth Murray, Rebecca Band, Keith R. Moffat, Peter Hanlon, Anne Bruton, Mike Thomas, Lucy Yardley, Frances S. Mair
The MK2/HuR signaling pathway regulates TNF-α-induced ICAM-1 expression by promoting the stabilization of ICAM-1 mRNA
Ting Wu, Jia-Xin Shi, Shen Geng, Wei Zhou, Yi Shi, Xin Su
“A year-long, fortnightly, observational survey in three European countries of patients with respiratory allergies induced by house dust mites: Methodology, demographics and clinical characteristics”
Pascal Demoly, Andrea Matucci, Oliviero Rossi, Carmen Vidal
Raised serum levels of IGFBP-1 and IGFBP-2 in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
J. Guiot, B. Bondue, M. Henket, J. L. Corhay, R. Louis
From “traction bronchiectasis” to honeycombing in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: A spectrum of bronchiolar remodeling also in radiology?
Sara Piciucchi, Sara Tomassetti, Claudia Ravaglia, Christian Gurioli, Carlo Gurioli, Alessandra Dubini, Angelo Carloni, Marco Chilosi, Thomas V Colby, Venerino Poletti
Comparison of next generation sequencing, SNaPshot assay and real-time polymerase chain reaction for lung adenocarcinoma EGFR mutation assessment
Andrei-Tudor Cernomaz, Ina Iuliana Macovei, Ionut Pavel, Carmen Grigoriu, Mihai Marinca, Florent Baty, Simona Peter, Radu Zonda, Martin Brutsche, Bogdan- Dragos Grigoriu
Can fiberoptic bronchoscopy be applied to critically ill patients treated with noninvasive ventilation for acute respiratory distress syndrome? Prospective observational study
Pervin Korkmaz Ekren, Burcu Basarik Aydogan, Alev Gurgun, Mehmet Sezai Tasbakan, Feza Bacakoglu, Stefano Nava
Budesonide ameliorates lung injury induced by large volume ventilation
Ying-Nan Ju, Kai-Jiang Yu, Guo-Nian Wang
Efficacy of concurrent treatments in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients with a rapid progression of respiratory failure: an analysis of a national administrative database in Japan
Keishi Oda, Kazuhiro Yatera, Yoshihisa Fujino, Hiroshi Ishimoto, Hiroyuki Nakao, Tetsuya Hanaka, Takaaki Ogoshi, Takashi Kido, Kiyohide Fushimi, Shinya Matsuda, Hiroshi Mukae
Miliary pulmonary nodules due to Mycobacterium xenopi in a steroid-induced immunocompromised patient successfully treated with chemotherapy: a case report
Yoshio Okano, Tsutomu Shinohara, Shino Imanishi, Naoki Takahashi, Nobuhito Naito, Takanari Taoka, Naoki Kadota, Fumitaka Ogushi
Humoral immune factors and asthma among American Indian children: a case–control study
Lyle G. Best, Rae A. O’Leary, Marcia A. O’Leary, Joseph M. Yracheta
Eosinophils enhance WNT-5a and TGF-β1 genes expression in airway smooth muscle cells and promote their proliferation by increased extracellular matrix proteins production in asthma
Andrius Januskevicius, Simona Vaitkiene, Reinoud Gosens, Ieva Janulaityte, Deimante Hoppenot, Raimundas Sakalauskas, Kestutis Malakauskas
Effects of indacaterol/glycopyrronium (QVA149) on lung hyperinflation and physical activity in patients with moderate to severe COPD: a randomised, placebo-controlled, crossover study (The MOVE Study)
Henrik Watz, Claudia Mailänder, Monika Baier, Anne Kirsten
Heart rate response during 6-minute walking testing predicts outcome in operable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
Manuel Jonas Richter, Katrin Milger, Khodr Tello, Philipp Stille, Werner Seeger, Eckhard Mayer, Hossein A. Ghofrani, Henning Gall
Noninvasive ventilation for severely acidotic patients in respiratory intermediate care units
Juan F. Masa, Isabel Utrabo, Javier Gomez de Terreros, Myriam Aburto, Cristóbal Esteban, Enric Prats, Belén Núñez, Ángel Ortega-González, Luis Jara-Palomares, M. Jesus Martin-Vicente, Eva Farrero, Alicia Binimelis, Ernest Sala, José C. Serrano-Rebollo, Emilia Barrot, Raquel Sánchez-Oro-Gomez, Ramón Fernández-Álvarez, Francisco Rodríguez-Jerez, Javier Sayas, Pedro Benavides, Raquel Català, Francisco J. Rivas, Carlos J. Egea, Antonio Antón, Patricia Peñacoba, Ana Santiago-Recuerda, M. A. Gómez-Mendieta, Lidia Méndez, José J. Cebrian, Juan A. Piña, Enrique Zamora, Gonzalo Segrelles
Intra-patient comparison of parietal pleural biopsies by rigid forceps, flexible forceps and cryoprobe obtained during medical thoracoscopy: a prospective series of 80 cases with pleural effusion
H. Wurps, N. Schönfeld, T. T. Bauer, M. Bock, C. Duve, R. Sauer, T. Mairinger, S. Griff
Vitamin D nutritional status and vitamin D regulated antimicrobial peptides in serum and pleural fluid of patients with infectious and noninfectious pleural effusions
Carlos A. Amado, María T. García-Unzueta, M. Carmen Fariñas, Francisca Santos, María Ortiz, Pedro Muñoz-Cacho, José A. Amado
Burden of asthma with elevated blood eosinophil levels
Julian Casciano, Jerry A. Krishnan, Mary Buatti Small, Philip O. Buck, Gokul Gopalan, Chenghui Li, Robert Kemp, Zenobia Dotiwala
Endobronchial ultrasound in real life: primary diagnosis and mediastinal staging of lung cancer in patients submitted to thoracic surgery
João Pedro Steinhauser Motta, Axel Tobias Kempa, Alexandre Pinto Cardoso, Marcos Eduardo Paschoal, Ronir Raggio Luiz, José Roberto Lapa e Silva, Franz Stanzel
Abediterol, a novel long-acting β2-agonist: bronchodilation, safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetic results from a single-dose, dose-ranging, active-comparator study in patients with COPD
Jutta Beier, Helena Pujol, Beatriz Seoane, Eulalia Jimenez, Carol Astbury, Eric Massana, Sandrine Ruiz, Gonzalo de Miquel
Measurement of lipocalin-2 and syndecan-4 levels to differentiate bacterial from viral infection in children with community-acquired pneumonia
Susanna Esposito, Sonia Bianchini, Monia Gambino, Barbara Madini, Giada Di Pietro, Giulia Umbrello, Maria Lory Presicce, Luca Ruggiero, Leonardo Terranova, Nicola Principi
Study protocol, rationale and recruitment in a European multi-centre randomized controlled trial to determine the efficacy and safety of azithromycin maintenance therapy for 6 months in primary ciliary dyskinesia
Helene E. Kobbernagel, Frederik F. Buchvald, Eric G. Haarman, Carmen Casaulta, Samuel A. Collins, Claire Hogg, Claudia E. Kuehni, Jane S. Lucas, Heymut Omran, Alexandra L. Quittner, Claudius Werner, Kim G. Nielsen
Erratum to: Effectiveness of initiating extrafine-particle versus fine-particle inhaled corticosteroids as asthma therapy in the Netherlands
Thys van der Molen, Dirkje S. Postma, Richard J. Martin, Ron M. C. Herings, Jetty A. Overbeek, Victoria Thomas, Cristiana Miglio, Richard Dekhuijzen, Nicolas Roche, Theresa Guilbert, Elliot Israel, Wim van Aalderen, Elizabeth V. Hillyer, Simon van Rysewyk, David B. Price
Re-biopsy by endobronchial ultrasound procedures for mutation analysis of non-small cell lung cancer after EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor treatment
Takehiro Izumo, Yuji Matsumoto, Christine Chavez, Takaaki Tsuchida
Variable course of disease of rheumatoid arthritis-associated usual interstitial pneumonia compared to other subtypes
Hanna M. Nurmi, Minna K. Purokivi, Miia S. Kärkkäinen, Hannu-Pekka Kettunen, Tuomas A. Selander, Riitta L. Kaarteenaho
PROGRESS – prospective observational study on hospitalized community acquired pneumonia
Peter Ahnert, Petra Creutz, Markus Scholz, Hartwig Schütte, Christoph Engel, Hamid Hossain, Trinad Chakraborty, Michael Bauer, Michael Kiehntopf, Uwe Völker, Sven Hammerschmidt, Markus Loeffler, Norbert Suttorp
Value of peripheral blood eosinophil markers to predict severity of asthma
Julian Casciano, Jerry A. Krishnan, Mary Buatti Small, Philip O. Buck, Gokul Gopalan, Chenghui Li, Robert Kemp, Zenobia Dotiwala
Time trends in leisure time physical activity, smoking, alcohol consumption and body mass index in Danish adults with and without COPD
Henrik Hansen, Nina Føns Johnsen, Stig Molsted
Adiposity influences airway wall thickness and the asthma phenotype of HIV-associated obstructive lung disease: a cross-sectional study
Julia H. Barton, Alex Ireland, Meghan Fitzpatrick, Cathy Kessinger, Danielle Camp, Renee Weinman, Deborah McMahon, Joseph K. Leader, Fernando Holguin, Sally E. Wenzel, Alison Morris, Matthew R. Gingo
A case–control study of innate immunity pathway gene polymorphisms in Puerto Ricans reveals association of toll-like receptor 2 +596 variant with asthma
Mario G. Ortiz-Martínez, Orquídea Frías-Belén, Sylvette Nazario-Jiménez, María López-Quintero, Rosa I. Rodríguez-Cotto, Braulio D. Jiménez-Vélez
Sedation during bronchoscopy: data from a nationwide sedation and monitoring survey
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Combined ultrasound-guided cutting-needle biopsy and standard pleural biopsy for diagnosis of malignant pleural effusions
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