Legionella pneumophila is a thin, aerobic, Gram-negative, pathogenic bacillus and the leading cause of Legionnaires’ disease (LD) in human, especially those with high risk conditions including immune system disorders or chronic lung diseases. The mortality rate of LD has been reported to be 60% or higher in inappropriately treated cases. Investigating the prevalence of L. pneumophila and identi...

BACKGROUND It is well known that inhalation of chemical warfare, mostly sulfur mustard, causes injury of the respiratory system. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a common disease among these patients. Health-related quality of life is a common feature of studies in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The objective of our study was to assess the quality of life in these patients. ME...

Medical diagnosis is extremely important but complicated task that should be performed accurately and efficiently. Disease diagnosis is one of the applications where data mining tools are proving successful results. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (also known as COPD) is a condition that makes breathing difficult. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is the fourth leading cause of...

Patients at a single pulmonary centre who developed obstructive lung disease after bone marrow transplantation (BMT) and lung transplantation (LT) were studied, in order to compare the clinical expression of post-transplant obstructive lung disease (PTOLD) (bronchiolitis obliterans) in these two conditions, which have so far been studied separately. Nine out of 179 patients surviving more than ...

To determine whether airway receptors are responsible for the rapid, shallow breathing pattern seen in hypercapnic chronic obstructive lung disease, 10 patients underwent upper airway anaesthesia with inhaled lignocaine in a placebo controlled study. There was a significant reduction in breathing frequency after lignocaine (p less than 0.001) that was due to an increase in expiratory time (p le...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization has estimated that by 2030, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease will be the third leading cause of death worldwide. Most knowledge of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is based on studies performed in Europe or North America and little is known about the prevalence, patient characteristics and change in lung function over time in patients in develo...

obesity has been reported to be associated with an increase in asthma in children. if there is any association, it could be attributed to an effect of obesity on lung volume and thus airway’s obstruction. data from 2413 children aged 7–12 years in isfahan were analyzed. the subjects were included in this study if data were available for: height, weight, age, lung volume, and any measure of asth...

Communications to the Editor 5 Aoki T, Inoue H, Sasaki H, Shimura S. Maeda S, Tomioka M, et al. Relation between selective alveolo-bronchograms and pulmonary function tests in patients with chronic obstructive lung disease. Am Rev Respir Dis 1984; 129:465-72 6 Honda I, Shimura S, Sasaki T, Sasaki H, Takishima T, Nakamura M. Airway mucosal permeability in chronic bronchitis and bronchial asthmat...

BACKGROUND There is renewed interest in the chronic respiratory sequelae of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), particularly chronic airflow limitation. A number of South African epidemiological studies have been published, which, although not specifically designed to examine this association, provide useful data on the nature of the relationship. OBJECTIVE To review population-based and occupation...