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- 1From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground Bronchodilators are a mainstay of treatment for patients with airflow obstruction. We hypothesized that patients with obesity and no objective documentation of airflow obstruction are inappropriately treated...
- 2From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground Recently it has been revealed that lung adenocarcinomas with distinct gene mutations or fusions are associated with particular histopathological entities. For example, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)...
- 3From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Aibek E Mirrakhimov1,2 , Talant Sooronbaev2 and Erkin M Mirrakhimov1,2 Background Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common medical condition and a form of sleep disordered breathing (SDB), which is...
- 4From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Dennis B Holmgaard1 , Lone H Mygind3 , Ingrid L Titlestad2 , Hanne Madsen2 , Svend Stenvang Pedersen1 , Julia S Johansen4 and Court Pedersen1 Background Airflow limitation is a central feature of chronic...
- 5From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Asthma, one of the most common chronic respiratory diseases, affects about 3 million Canadians. The objective of this study is to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the published literature that reports...
- 6From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Tumors with a massive inflammatory infiltration are described in several organs. There is agreement about considering the inflammatory infiltration as the host's immune response to neoplastic cells; such...
- 7From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Ana Sogo1 , Jaume Montanyà2 , Eduard Monsó1,3 , Lluís Blanch3,4 , Xavier Pomares1 and Manel Lujàn1,3 Background Non-invasive home mechanical ventilation monitoring is an area of increasing interest....
- 8From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Neil Barnes1 , Peter MA Calverley2 , Alan Kaplan3 and Klaus F Rabe4 Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major global health burden in both developed and developing countries....
- 9From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Denise Cosgrove1,4 , Joseph MacMahon2 , Jean Bourbeau3 , Judy M Bradley1,2 and Brenda O'Neill1 Background Pulmonary rehabilitation provides clinicians with an opportunity to deliver education and...
- 10From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
Long-term CPAP treatment partially improves the link between cardiac vagal influence and delta sleep
Background Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment improves the risk of cardiovascular events in patients suffering from severe sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (SAHS) but its effect on the link between... - 11From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Massimo Miniati1 , Simonetta Monti2,3 , Matteo Bottai4,5 , Ivana Pavlickova2 , Claudio Passino3,6 , Michele Emdin3 and Roberta Poletti3 Background Heart failure (HF) is a common clinical disorder...
- 12From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Alexandra Enocson1 , Richard Hubbard1 , Tricia McKeever1 , Nigel Russell2 , Jennifer Byrne2 , Emma Das-Gupta2 , Lynne Watson2 and Andrew W Fogarty1 Background The use of allogeneic hematopoietic stem...
- 13From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Melannie Alexander1 , Wilfried Karmaus2 , John W Holloway3,4 , Hongmei Zhang1 , Graham Roberts4,5 , Ramesh J Kurukulaaratchy4,5 , Syed Hasan Arshad4,5 and Susan Ewart6 Background Pregnancy is a critical...
- 14From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Chiyako Oshikata1 , Naomi Tsurikisawa1 , Akemi Saito1 , Maiko Watanabe2 , Yoichi Kamata2 , Maki Tanaka3 , Takahiro Tsuburai1 , Hiroyuki Mitomi1 , Kosuke Takatori3 , Hiroshi Yasueda1 and Kazuo Akiyama1...
- 15From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Smita Pakhale1,2,3 , Vanessa Luks1,3 , Andrew Burkett1,3 and Lucy Turner2 Background Asthma is a multifactorial disease with genetic, environmental and inflammatory components in its etiology. The...
- 16From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Francesca Patria1 , Benedetta Longhi1 , Claudia Tagliabue1 , Rossana Tenconi1 , Patrizia Ballista2 , Giuseppe Ricciardi2 , Carlotta Galeone3 , Nicola Principi1 and Susanna Esposito1 Background Recurrent...
- 17From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Yajian Jiang1,2 and Fangchun Shao1 Background Stone mining is a profession with high risks to occupational lung disease due to its harmful working environment [1, 2]. Among all the notorious pathogens...
- 18From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
Increased incidence of autoimmune markers in patients with combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema
Author(s): Argyris Tzouvelekis1 , George Zacharis1 , Anastasia Oikonomou2 , Dimitrios Mikroulis3 , George Margaritopoulos4 , Anastasios Koutsopoulos5 , Antonis Antoniadis6 , Andreas Koulelidis1 , Paschalis Steiropoulos1... - 19From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Pieter R Tuinman1,4 , Alexander D Cornet2 , Maria T Kuipers1 , Alexander P Vlaar1 , Marcus J Schultz1 , Albertus Beishuizen2 , AB Johan Groeneveld3 and Nicole P Juffermans1 Background Cardiac surgery is...
- 20From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Aleksandra Szczepankiewicz1 , Peter M Lackie2 and John W Holloway2,3 Background The airway epithelium has been recognized to play a central role in the integration of innate and adaptive immune...