[PDF] Top 20 Interrelationship between serum and sputum inflammatory mediators in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

... h and a long-acting bron- chodilator 24 h before the ...before and 15-20 min after the administration of 400 µg salbutamol inhaled via a spacer device and groups were defined according to ... See full document

... Relationship between serum lipid level in chronic obstructive lung dis- ease (COLD) and lung cancer was not well ...documented. In our study we planned to compare ... See full document

... 1980s, sputum induction by inhala- tion of hypertonic saline has been successfully used for diagnosing Pneumocystis carinii pneu- monia in patients infected with ...HIV. In recent years, ... See full document

... Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a highly prevalent disease that has a large impact on quality of life for patients and their families and kills millions of ... See full document

... Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is progressive and is characterized by abnormal inflammation of the lungs in response to inhalation of noxious particles or toxic gases, ... See full document

... volume in 1 second (FEV1) to forced vital capacity (FVC)] < 0.70 and a < 15% or 200-mL increase in FEV1 following inhalation of a β2 agonist; age ≥ 18 years; stable ischemic heart ... See full document

... status and being illiterates, they were not able to recollect the age when they started smoking, the method of smoking, the years of smoking and the number of cigarettes or beedis smoked per ... See full document

... achieved in the symptom-limited cardiorespiratory exercise testing (CRET); and the third group (RMT+PTG) associated 10 minutes of RMT to 15 minutes of PT with the same intensities previously ...MIP ... See full document

... COPD and bronchiectasis in the upper left lobe for 20 ...volume in one second/forced vital capacity, which was ...bronchodilator in the pulmo- nary function ... See full document

... teste de caminhada de 6 minutos. No entanto, e tendo em conta o nú- mero de doentes que compunham a amostra, procurou-se, por um lado, testar variáveis já citadas na li- teratura como potenciais determi- nantes para a ... See full document

... an in-depth analysis of the mutational spectrum for a gene of interest. In the particular case of SERPINA1 it was possible to compile a total of 100 mutations including those described in this work, ... See full document

... 0.7 and body mass index between 18 and 30 were ...smokers and none had any clinical or physiological features of bronchial asthma or a history of exacerbation in the previous 6 ...usual ... See full document

... conducted between April of 2004 and January of 2006, were evaluated: 620 were indicative of a diagnosis of asthma, and 441 were indicative of a diagnosis of ...stable disease at the time of ... See full document

... receptor, and is stored in cells bound to ...transferrin and ferritin expression was found in COPD lungs, and transferrin receptor was higher in BAL from COPD subjects than ... See full document

... surveys in Brazil is restrict- ed to individuals up to the age of 74 which does not permit the investigation of outcomes among older individuals that represent an increasing proportion of the ...out in the ... See full document

... data, and deviations from the ...irresolvable. In addition, most of the data used for clinical audits are characterized by a hierarchical (multilevel) ...(resulting in a loss of statistical ... See full document

... depletion in COPD was high, especially in females, and was not associated with lower levels of airway ...effects and important outcomes in patients with COPD, little information is ... See full document

... 25(OH)D between 25 and 50 nmol/L; vitamin D sufficiency: 25(OH)D > 50 nmol/L (Borissova et ...for Chronic Obstruc- tive Lung Disease (GOLD) criteria (GOLD, ...status and number of ... See full document

... use in subjects with COPD using a 5% fee-for- service Medicare beneficiary population from ...Board and informed consent was not obtained due to the nature of the ...enrollment in- formation ... See full document

... involved in Th1 immune responses and induce mainly cell-mediated ...immunity. In contrast, interleukin-4 (IL-4), interleukin-5 (IL-5) and interleukin- 10 (IL-10) are involved in Th2 ... See full document