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P149 Management Algorithm For Pulmonary Embolism (PE) with Right Heart Strain: A Case Series
Current guidelines state thrombolysis is first line therapy in hypotensive PE patients and may be of benefit in normotensive patients with right heart strain. There is, however, no specific guidance ...
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Smoking uptake in UK children: analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study
We used data from 11 577 children in the UK Millennium Cohort Study, collected at approximately 14 years of age (early teens), to assess characteristics associated with smoking, and generated regional ...
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Acute respiratory failure secondary to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease treated in the intensive care unit: a long term follow up study
4 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia Correspondence to: Dr D Breen, Intensive Care Unit, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Missenden Road, Camperdown, NSW ...
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The importance of ultrasound in staging and gaining a pathological diagnosis in patients with lung cancer—a two year single centre experience
1 Department of Clinical Radiology, University Hospitals of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, ...
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Immunohistochemical localisation of the matrix metalloproteinases MMP-3 and MMP-9 within the airways in asthma
a Division of Respiratory Medicine, Thoracic Clinics, Karolinska Hospital, SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden, b University Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK Dr B ...
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A structural and metabolic framework for classifying pre-clinical tuberculosis infection phenotypes using 18F-FDG PET-CT: a prospective cohort analysis following M. tuberculosis exposure ...
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the older adult: what defines abnormal lung function?
1 Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky, USA 2 Department of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, ...
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Neural correlates of cough hypersensitivity in humans: evidence for central sensitisation and dysfunctional inhibitory control
2 The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Introduction Chronic non-productive coughing is a major complication of pulmonary ...
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Quality of Life Questionnaire-Bronchiectasis: final psychometric analyses and determination of minimal important difference scores
Background The Quality of Life-Bronchiectasis (QOL-B), a self-administered, patient-reported outcome measure assessing symptoms, functioning and health-related quality of life for patients with ...
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Will SUMMIT reach the peak in COPD?
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PiSZ alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD): pulmonary phenotype and prognosis relative to PiZZ AATD and PiMM COPD
Introduction The PiSZ genotype results in less severe deficiency of alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) than PiZZ. Less is known about phenotypic and prognostic features. Methods We studied 699 PiZZ, 126 PiSZ ...
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Association of positive airway pressure termination with mortality and non-fatal cardiovascular events in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea
Background and aims The recurrence of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) after positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy termination has physiological consequences that may increase cardiovascular (CV) risk.