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... The patient was submitted to bronchial ther- moplasty (Figure 1) with the Alair system in three sessions (right lower lobe, left lower lobe, and upper lobes) with a three-week interval between sessions. Every ... See full document

... In order to measure the concentrations of the inflammatory mediators CCL5; sICAM-1; TNF- α; IL-6; and IL-10, nasopharyngeal aspirates and peripheral blood were collected in the first 24 h of the hospital stay, ... See full document

... peak expiratory flow and back-extrapolated volume < 5% of FVC or < 80 mL. Curves in which the difference in FVC and FEV 1 values did not exceed 10% were accepted as reproducibility criteria. In order to ... See full document

... Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study involving patients over 18 years of age hospitalized for over 24 h at the Federal University of Santa Catarina University Hospital[r] ... See full document

... In the first visit, the patients underwent clinical evaluation, using a structured form especially designed for patients with lung cancer, and completed the MMSE (Figure 1). The following independent variables ... See full document

... Objective: To measure exhaled carbon monoxide (COex) levels in smokers with and without COPD. Methods: Smokers treated at outpatient clinics of São Lucas Hospital in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, between September of ... See full document

... Various diseases can result in bronchiolitis and a nonspecific pattern of pulmonary function test results. An expiratory CT should be obtained in nonsmoking patients who do not have asthma but present with dyspnea, ... See full document

... QBEnd/10, 1:80; Novocastra Laboratories ...and 1-mm thick serial images were obtained for each vessel (resulting in a total of 20 images per vessel) in order to avoid autofluorescence problems related ... See full document

... Positive sputum smear results occurred only in the 3 cases of multidrug resistant TB; however, not all patients were submitted to the test, due to the lack of symptoms and because the initial diagnostic hypothesis was ... See full document

... In both studies, the use of FDC drugs reduced the risk of noncompliance with treatment by approximately 11%, although the 95% CIs were very wide (both spanning 1, that is, the null effect). The advantages ... See full document

... All of the types of AR were detected in most of the years evaluated in the present study. Acquired multidrug resistance was the highest but maintained a trend toward a decrease throu- ghout the study period. There was a ... See full document

... ular lymph node enlargement or digital clubbing was observed. Pulmonary auscultation revealed only a diffuse reduction in breath sounds. A chest X-ray taken at the onset of the condi- tion (4 years before) showed lung ... See full document

... most recent evaluation, the risk of exposure to TB was low in 687 (11.2%) of the HCWs evaluated, whereas it was moderate in 4,008 (65.6%) and high/ongoing in 1,417 (23.2%). The mean age was 38 ± 11 years, and the ... See full document

... In addition, 287 patients underwent post- bronchoscopic sputum smear testing for AFB, the results of which increased the diagnostic yield by 22% over that obtained through the analysis [r] ... See full document

... 2. Xavier RG, Sanches PR, de Macedo Neto AV, Kuhl G, Vearick SB, Michelon MD. Development of a modified Dumon stent for tracheal applications: an experimental study in dogs. J Bras Pneumol. 2008;34(1):21-6. ... See full document

... The mean age of the respondents in the present study was 30.00 ± 8.32 years. Of the 1,235 respondents, most (56.7%) were in the 20-29 year age bracket, had mixed skin color (55.2%), and had had more than eight years of ... See full document

... 22. Guerra MR, Mendonça GA, Teixeira MT, Cintra JR, Carvalho LM, Magalhães LM. Five-year survival and prognostic factors in a cohort of breast cancer patients treated in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State, Brazil [Article ... See full document

... In the present study, severe COPD (FEV 1 < 1.0 L) and the distance between the lesion and the chest wall were not considered absolute contraindications for the procedure. Three cases required immediate chest ... See full document

... culosis, which was confirmed by culture for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. He was admitted to the isolation ward and started on a quad- ruple anti-tuberculosis regimen with isoniazid, rifampin, ethambutol and pyrazinamide. ... See full document

... and open drainage of the residual pleural cavity was maintained. Bronchoscopy revealed that the fistula measured 12 mm, and a 15-mm atrial septal defect occluder (Occlutech Figulla; Occlutech GmbH, Jena, Germany) was ... See full document