Lower Respiratory Tract (LRT) Disease in Cats

Relationship Between Upper Respiratory Tract Influenza Test Result and Clinical Outcomes Among Critically Ill Influenza Patients

Among critically ill patients with lower respiratory tract (LRT)-confirmed influenza, we retrospectively observed worse 28-day clinical outcomes in upper respiratory tract (URT)-negative versus URT-positive subjects. This finding may reflect disease progression and highlights the need for influenza testing of both URT and LRT specimens to improve diagnostic yield and possibly inform prognosis.

Does Detection of Respiratory Viral Infection in Upper Respiratory Tract (URT) Predict Lower Respiratory Tract (LRT) Disease in Hematopoietic Cell Transplant (HCT) Patients?

Inflammatory Airway Disease ( 16-aug-2002 )

Glossary BAL – Bronchoalveolar Lavage BALF – Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid cfu – colony forming unit EIPH – Exercise-Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhage IAD – Inflammatory Airway Disease LRT – Lower Respiratory Tract LRTI – Lower Respiratory Tract Inflammation NIAD – Non-infectious Inflammatory Airway Disease PAM – Pulmonary Alveolar Macrophage RAO – Recurrent Airway Obstruction SAD – Small Airway Dise...

Feline herpesvirus 1 infections in a domestic cat population in Ahvaz, Iran

Feline herpesvirus 1 (FeHV-1) and feline calicivirus (FCV), associated with upper respiratory tract disease, are highly prevalent in cats worldwide. With the aim of investigating the importance of FeHV-1 in a population of cats, samples were taken in a hospital in Ahvaz, south-west Iran, between June 2007 and June 2008. Oropharyngeal, nasal and ocular swabs were collected from 65 domestic cats,...

Acute inhalation of cigarette smoke increases lower respiratory tract nitric oxide concentrations.

BACKGROUND Cigarette smoking is associated with a number of common pulmonary diseases including chronic airflow limitation and bronchial carcinoma. Lower respiratory tract (LRT) nitric oxide (NO) concentrations are reduced in habitual cigarette smokers between cigarettes, and although this finding has been implicated in the pathogenesis of smoking related disease, the underlying mechanisms are ...