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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Lung Cancer
Common Pathogenesis, Shared Clinical Challenges Bartolome R. Celli1 1Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (Received in original form July 9, 2011; accepted in final form October 6, 2011) Correspondence and requests for reprints should be addressed to Bartolome R. Celli, M.D., 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA / прочети повече
Bronchial Thermoplasty for Severe Asthma
Momen M. Wahidi1 and Monica Kraft1 1Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina (Received in original form May 20, 2011; accepted in final form October 21, 2011) Author Contributions: Both authors have contributed to the review of data and writing of this manuscript. / прочети повече
Impact of Anxiety and Depression on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation Risk
Catherine Laurin1,2,3,4*, Gre´gory Moullec1,2,4*, Simon L. Bacon1,2,3,4, and Kim L. Lavoie1,2,3,5 1Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 2Research Centre, Hoˆpital du Sacre´-Coeur de Montre´al, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 3Research Centre, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 4Department of Exercise Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and 5Department of Psychology, Universite´ du Que´bec a` Montre´al, / прочети повече
Guidelines for the management of work-related asthma
ERS TASK FORCE REPORT Eur Respir J 2012; 39: 529–545 DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00096111 X. Baur, T. Sigsgaard, T.B. Aasen, P.S. Burge, D. Heederik, P. Henneberger, P. Maestrelli, J. Rooyackers, V. Schlu¨nssen, O. Vandenplas and D. Wilken on behalf of the ERS Task Force on the Management of Work-related Asthma ABSTRACT: Work-related asthma, which includes occupational asthma and work-aggravated asthma, / прочети повече
Building a Better Physician — The Case for the New MCAT
The NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL of MEDICINE april 5, 2012 The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), a prerequisite for admission to U.S. medical schools, currently consists of four sections: physical sciences, verbal reasoning, a writing sample, and biologic sciences. A 2004 Institute of Medicine report on “Improving Medical Education” and several years of evaluation identified / прочети повече
Признак на WESTERMARK при белодробна емболия – Westermark Sign in Pulmonary Embolism
Westermark Sign in Pulmonary Embolism Anant Subramanian Krishnan, M.D. Tristan Barrett, M.D. Addenbrooke’s Hospital Cambridge, United Kingdom A 47-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with acute shortness of breath and hypoxemia. Her medical history included sex reassignment, for which she was taking estrogen, and a deep-vein thrombosis on the left side, for which she / прочети повече
Вземането на диагностично решение при солитарни възли (нодули) на белия дроб – Decision Making in Patients with Pulmonary Nodules
Decision Making in Patients with Pulmonary Nodules David E. Ost1 and Michael K. Gould2 1Department of Pulmonary Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; and 2Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Integrating current evidence with fundamental / прочети повече
Guidelines for the management of adult lower respiratory tract infections
Introduction In 2005 the European Respiratory Society (ERS), in collaboration with The European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), published guidelines on the management of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) in adults [1]. This document was based on published scientific literature up to the end of 2002. We have now updated these guidelines / прочети повече
Treatment of Tuberculosis
SUMMARY Responsibility for Successful Treatment The overall goals for treatment of tuberculosis are (1) to cure the individual patient, and (2) to minimize the transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to other persons. Thus, successful treatment of tuberculosis has benefits both for the individual patient and the community in which the patient resides. For this reason the / прочети повече
New guidelines for the management of adult lower respiratory tract infections
Guidelines for the management of adult lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) were first published by a Task Force of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) in 1998 [1]. In 2005, a completely revised version was produced, this time by a joint Task Force of the ERS and the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases / прочети повече