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Sleep disordered breathing and pregnancy
1 David Read Laboratory, Department of Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia Correspondence to: Dr ...
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Serum carotenoids, vitamins A and E, and 8 year lung function decline in a general population
Background: Oxidative stress is thought to have a major role in the pathogenesis of airway obstruction. A study was undertaken to determine whether subjects with low levels of antioxidants (serum ...
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Management of malignant pleural effusions
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M11 The use of asthma care bundle proformas can improve quality of care in acute asthma admissions
Introduction Despite the introduction of dedicated asthma services and targeted therapies, asthma exacerbations remain a common cause of hospital admission with significant utilisation of health care ...
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Highly discordant T cell responses in individuals with recent exposure to household tuberculosis
DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, ...
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The incremental shuttle walking test in elderly people with chronic airflow limitation
1 Department of Geriatric Medicine, Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust, Bath, UK 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK 3 Department of Respiratory Medicine, ...
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The effect of acute morphine on obstructive sleep apnoea: a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled crossover trial
Objective Anaesthesiology guidelines suggest that opioids worsen obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) despite no randomised controlled trial evidence. We therefore conducted a randomised controlled trial to ...
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Expression of protease activated receptor-2 (PAR-2) in central airways of smokers and non-smokers
8 Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Section of Occupational Medicine, University of Padova, Italy 9 Departments of Medicine, Oncology and Radiology, Section of Respiratory ...
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Use of non-invasive haemodynamic measurements to detect treatment response in precapillary pulmonary hypertension
Background Haemodynamic measurements may be superior to the 6-min walk distance (6MWD) as outcome measures in pulmonary hypertension (PH) as they are directly linked to the mechanisms of disease and ...
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P216 Impact of Tachycardia and New Onset Atrial Fibrillation in Acute Exacerbations of COPD
Introduction and Objectives Cardiac arrhythmias are regularly found in patients with COPD, with higher frequencies reported during exacerbations. We wished to examine the impact of tachycardia and new ...
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P106 Tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI) is cleaved by multiple proteases in COPD lungs to affect circulating TFPI levels
Background Tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI) attenuates intravascular coagulation, a function limited by its proteolysis. Airway inflammation in COPD is associated with protease activity and ...
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Thoracoscopic fluorescence diagnosis (TFD) of pleural malignancies: experimental studies
1 Department of Surgery, University Hospital Mannheim, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Germany 2 Department of Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg ...