Purpose: The aim of our study was to determine whether the RS time measured on an electrocardiogram is associated with severity chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
 Materials and Methods: population made up 100 COPD patients a mean age 63 ± 10 years (86% were males). These divided into mild moderate (GOLD 1–2) group (n = 45) severe very 3–4) 55) according Global Initiative for Ch...

BACKGROUND Reasons for the excess risk for cardiovascular disease among people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease remain unclear. Our objective was to examine the cardiovascular risk profile for adults with obstructive and restrictive impairments of lung functioning in a representative sample of adults from the United States. METHODS We used data from adults aged 20-79 years who parti...

Previous studies have shown that some patients with chronic obstructive lung disease and hypercapnia will respond to medroxyprogesterone with improvement in arterial blood gases. The exact mechanism of this effect is unclear but it is presumed to be a result of ventilatory stimulation. To determine whether the ability to correct arterial blood gas abnormalities by voluntary hyperventilation wou...

♦Corresponding Author: Maher Soliman, MD Oncology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria 21526, Alexandria, Egypt Tel: (+2) 03-4848280 Fax: (+2) 03-4848280 E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Background: Radiation-induced lung toxicity is an important dose-limiting toxicity in lung cancer radiotherapy, for which there are no generally accepted predictive fa...

Cogswell, J. J., Risdon, R. A., and Taylor, B. (1974). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 49, 520. Chronic suppurative lung disease in sisters mimicking cystic fibrosis. Two sisters are described with fatal chronic obstructive lung disease of unknown origin. The lung condition was clinically and histologically indistinguishable from cystic fibrosis and the salivary glands showed pathological cha...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic, progressive lung disease resulting from exposure to cigarette smoke, noxious gases, particulate matter, and air pollutants. COPD is exacerbated by acute inflammatory insults such as lung infections (viral and bacterial) and air pollutants which further accelerate the steady decline in lung function. The chronic inflammatory process in t...

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INTRODUCTION Invasive and semi-invasive pulmonary aspergillosis usually occurs in immunocompromised patients. It has been described occasionally in patients with normal immunity and previous lung disease such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Swyer-James-MacLeod Syndrome is a rare condition characterized by hyperlucency of one lung, lobe or part of a lobe due to decreased vascularity and...

Objective: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by systemic inflammation and accelerated inflammaging of the lungs. Some studies showed that conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) has anti-inflammatory effects. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of CLA supplementationon serum levels of interleukin (IL)-6 and sirtuin1 (SIRT1) in patients wit...

The mounting burden of chronic respiratory diseases Chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) are chronic diseases of the airways and other structures of the lungs. Major CRDs are asthma and respiratory allergies, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), occupational lung diseases, sleep apnoea syndrome and pulmonary hypertension. Globally, they affect 1 billion people and account for 7% of all ...