Periodontal Diseases: Major Exacerbators of Pulmonary Diseases? by Bakey Kouanda, Zeeshan Sattar, Patrick Geraghty

“…Pulmonary diseases, such as pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, tuberculosis, COVID-19, and bronchiectasis, significantly contribute to poor quality of life and mortality. …”
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Successful Use of Plasma Exchange in the Treatment of Corticosteroid-Refractory Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis Associated with Gastrointestinal Manifestations by Kohei Tsujimoto, Masato Yagita, Masashi Taniguchi, Masaaki Fujita

“…We describe the case of a 33-year-old woman having corticosteroid-refractory eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) who presented with abdominal pain and responded dramatically to plasma exchange. Eosinophilia, asthma history, neuropathy, pulmonary infiltrates, and paranasal sinus abnormalities confirmed the diagnosis of EGPA. …”
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Ectopic thyroid tissue in the airway: a case report by Qun Zhang, Lin Zhou, Wei Li, Yanling Xu

“…This condition can lead to diagnostic challenges, especially when located within the airway, as it mimics other respiratory disorders such as asthma. Case presentation We report the case of a 69-year-old man with endotracheal ETT presenting with severe dyspnea, and the lesion was initially suspected to be malignant. …”
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Hamman syndrome. A case report by Osvaldo Barrios Viera, Marleny González Machín

“…The case of a 19-years-old male patient, referred to the General Surgery Service of the Leopoldito Martínez General Teaching Hospital, presenting with moderate intensity dyspnea, accompanied by a sudden increase in volume of the neck and anterior region of the thorax, after a coughing fit during an acute attack of bronchial asthma is presented. The physical examination identified subcutaneous emphysema in the neck, thorax, anterior wall of the abdomen and upper limbs. …”
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Guiding Inspiratory Flow: Development of the In-Check DIAL G16, a Tool for Improving Inhaler Technique by Mark Jeremy Sanders

“…Use of the tool has been shown to be contributory to significant improvements in asthma care and control, and it is being advocated for assessment and training in irreversible lung disease.…”
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Sleeptalking! Sleepwalking! Side Effects of Montelukast by Samer Alkhuja, Natalya Gazizov, Mary Ellen Alexander

“…A 16-year-old Caucasian female presented to the pulmonary clinic for a followup on her asthma. Due to the worsening of allergy-related symptoms, therapy with montelukast 10 mg daily was started and resulted in good relief of the patient’s symptoms. …”
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PEMANFAATAN DAN BIOAKTIVITAS SIDAGURI (Sida rhombifolia) by Marina Silalahi

“…In ethnobotany SR used as traditional medicine include gout, broken bones, wounds, fever, treatment of diarrhea, malaria, gastrointestinal dysentery, fever, asthma, and inflammation and anti-inflammation. SR has bioactivity as an anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, antioxidant, anti-cancer, drug for kidney disorders, hepatoprotective, anti-diabetes mellitus, and analgesics. …”
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Diffuse Panbronchiolitis in a Caucasian Man in Canada by Alessandra Sandrini, MS Balter, Kenneth R Chapman

“…In this report the authors describe a Caucasian man of Canadian descent who presented with progressive clinical and lung function impairment despite three years of bronchodilator and corticosteroid treatment with presumed asthma. His chest computed tomography scan showed diffuse centrilobular opacities. …”
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Life quality related to health in asthmatic children and their caretaker. by Rafael Alejandro Gómez Baute, Yaney Gonzalez Iglesias, Juana María Morejón Fernández, Roberto Travieso Peña

“…<strong>Objective:</strong> to evaluate health-related life quality in children with asthma and their caretakers through 4 measurement devices. …”
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Study of some parameters of humoral immunity in asthmatic elderly patients by Marisela Pérez Pacareu, Alina González Paredes, Rafael Zamora Puerta, Dayamí García Torres

“…Reductions of immunoglobulin secretion, together with environmental factors, increases susceptibility of elderly people to a more severe type of asthma. One of the effective ways of evaluating their immune system is the study of humoral immunity through immunoglobulin quantification. …”
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Clinical benefits and risks of remote patient monitoring: an overview and assessment of methodological rigour of systematic reviews for selected patient groups by Constanze Wartenberg, Helen Elden, Malte Frerichs, Lennart L Jivegård, Kajsa Magnusson, Georgios Mourtzinis, Ola Nyström, Kajsa Quitz, Helen Sjöland, Therese Svanberg, Helena Vallo Hult

“…Some patient benefit of remote patient monitoring was reported for five patient groups (asthma, chronic obstructive lung disease, heart failure, hypertension, and elderly patients with multiple diseases). …”
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Contribution of Regulatory T Cell Methylation Modifications to the Pathogenesis of Allergic Airway Diseases by Jiani Li, Jichao Sha, Liwei Sun, Dongdong Zhu, Cuida Meng

“…., cytosine methylation at the promoter region of the transcription factor, Forkhead Box P3) have been found to be closely associated with allergic diseases, including allergic rhinitis, asthma, and food allergies. In this study, we highlighted the recent evidence on the contribution of epigenetic modifications in Treg cells to the pathogenesis of allergic diseases. …”
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Aspergillus-Related Lung Disease by Alia Al-Alawi, C Frank Ryan, Julia D Flint, Nestor L Müller

“…Three distinctive patterns of aspergillus-related lung disease are recognized: saprophytic infestation of airways, cavities and necrotic tissue; allergic disease including extrinsic allergic alveolitis, asthma, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, bronchocentric granulomatosis and chronic eosinophilic pneumonia; and airway and tissue invasive disease -- pseudomembranous tracheobronchitis, acute bronchopneumonia, angioinvasive aspergillosis, chronic necrotizing aspergillosis and invasive pleural disease. …”
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Respiratory Failure Secondary to Human Metapneumovirus Requiring Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in a 32-Month-Old Child by Abha Gupta, Melania Bembea, Anna Brown, Courtney Robertson, Lewis Romer, Ronald D. Cohn

“…Here, we report a case of a 32-month-old male with a previous history of asthma, who developed respiratory failure two weeks after onset of cough and rhinorrhea and required extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for 9 days after failing high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV). …”
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The Role of Noncoding RNA in Airway Allergic Diseases through Regulation of T Cell Subsets by Shenghao Cheng, Qingping Tang, Shaobing Xie, Sihui Wen, Hua Zhang, Zhihai Xie, Weihong Jiang

“…Allergic rhinitis and asthma are common airway allergic diseases, the incidence of which has increased annually in recent years. …”
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Self-Management for People with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Fred Saibil, Emily Lai, Andrew Hayward, Jeanne Yip, Cameron Gilbert

“…Conditions such as diabetes, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, recurrent urinary tract infections and others lend themselves to this paradigm of medical care for the informed patient. …”
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Anemia That Presented with Desaturation: A Focus on Core Concepts by Lakshmi Shobhavat, Antonio D’Costa, Karthik Shroff

“…Although a co-oximetry would give a prompt diagnosis, there have been multiple reports of misdiagnosing this treatable condition—from being diagnosed as sepsis to asthma and even being operated for “ruptured ectopic pregnancy.” …”
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Preconception reproductive risk factors in women from Office 12 of Area II by Lianet Pérez Rodríguez, Grissel Utrera Díaz, Pedro L. Toledo Yanes

“…High blood pressure and asthma were the most frequent biological risk factors. …”
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Analysis of cyt0kine gene expression in stimulated T cells of small children by semi-quantitative PCR by H. Koning, M. R. M. Baert, R. de Groot, H. J. Neijens, H. F. J. Savelkoul

“…This can be performed on T cells purified from blood samples of up to 5 ml in volume from children aged 0–4 years with allergic asthma and atopic dermatitis. This procedure includes multiple sampling of PCR products to determine the linear phase of the PCR; inter-experiment correction using a helper T-cell clone, expressing both IL-4 and IFN-γ; interpatient correction by comparing the expression of a housekeeping gene (HPRT); and finally the development of specific software to analyse densitometric data obtained by scanning photographs of agarose gels, separating PCR products. …”
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Efficacy of Omalizumab in Indolent Systemic Mastocytosis by Calum Slapnicar, Martina Trinkaus, Lisa Hicks, Peter Vadas

“…Omalizumab is an established, labelled therapy for allergic asthma and chronic urticaria, but its experience in the efficacy of SM is limited. …”
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