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... between asthma and GERD in two cohorts of patients treated at primary care facilities in the United Kingdom. Their results showed that, in that population, the risk of being diagnosed with GERD in the first three years ... See full document

... of the present study was to assess the association between health-related quality of life and degree of asthma control, as determined by the ACT, in outpatients with moderate to sever[r] ... See full document

... Os exemplos são abundantes: utiliza-se teste com fita reagente para a realização de triagem de diabetes, e, em seguida, teste de tolerância à glicose para confirmar ou excluir o diagn[r] ... See full document

... Observando a necessidade de valores de referência mais adequados, dois estudos publicados nesta edição do Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia sugerem equações de predição para o teste d[r] ... See full document

... Acreditamos que, com a abordagem robótica, é possível realizar a timectomia radical com segurança, e isso pode diminuir o limiar para neurologistas indicarem cirurgia para seus pacie[r] ... See full document

... The discontinuation of mechanical ventilation involves three diagnostic steps: measurement of weaning predictors; a trial of unassisted breathing (T-tube trial); and a trial of extuba[r] ... See full document

... Relatamos o caso de um paciente com um tumor do mediastino médio diagnosticado, após ressecção, como paraganglioma não funcional.. Trata-se de um tumor muito raro, e é incomum que se [r] ... See full document

... This means that, over the course of this year, the articles published in the BJP between 2009 and 2010 (the period considered for the calculation of the first impact factor) were eva[r] ... See full document

... To answer this question, we analyzed the behavior of physiological variables during acute hypoxia and maximal stress testing in adolescents clinically diagnosed with mild intermitten[r] ... See full document

... 5. Onders RP, Elmo M, Khansarinia S, Bowman B, Yee J, Road J, et al. Complete worldwide operative experience in laparoscopic diaphragm pacing: results and differences in spinal cord injured patients and ... See full document

... Objective: To evaluate the use of inhaler devices by patients with severe asthma treated via the Programa para o Controle da Asma e Rinite Alérgica na Bahia (ProAR, Bahia State Asthma [r] ... See full document

... The animals were randomly divided into five groups of 6 animals each: sham-operated (SO), in which the chest was opened with no pulmonary resection, a thin layer of adhesive was appl[r] ... See full document

... This was a prospective, cross-sectional study carried out between March of 2009 and March of 2010 and involving a nonrandom sample of patients treated at the University Hospital of th[r] ... See full document

... * Study carried out under the auspices of the Graduate Program in Medical Sciences, Department of Pulmonology, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre – HCPA, Porto Alegre Hospital de Clín[r] ... See full document

... A crossover study involving 25 patients with asthma compared the bronchodilator effect of 200 µg of albuterol administered via a small- volume (7.5 cm) spacer with that of 200 µg of a[r] ... See full document

... objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect that seasonality has on the occurrence of respiratory symptoms in subjects who sought outpatient treatment at a primary healt[r] ... See full document

... Through careful dissection and the application of numerous metal hemostatic clips, we successfully resected the tumor, which was a solid, elastic, highly vascularized mass, measuring [r] ... See full document

... 5. Onders RP, Elmo M, Khansarinia S, Bowman B, Yee J, Road J, et al. Complete worldwide operative experience in laparoscopic diaphragm pacing: results and differences in spinal cord injured patients and ... See full document

... Recent advances in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and minimally invasive surgical techniques have made thymectomy possible.. These approaches have reduced morbidity, mor[r] ... See full document

... Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte – UFRN, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte – Natal, Brazil..[r] ... See full document