Aim: COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) is a lung disease that causes impairment in quality of life. NEWS (National Early Warning Score) scoring system evaluates patients' general condition and mortality. We examined the utility predicting clinical status patients. Materials methods: patients admitted to emergency department were included study. Age, gender, comorbid diseases, occupat...

2681 prednisone after emergency treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. N Engl J Med 2003;348:2618-25. 12. Snow V, Lascher S, Mottur-Pilson C. The evidence base for management of acute exacerbations of COPD: clinical practice guideline. Chest 2001;119:1185-9. 13. Callahan CM, Dittus RS, Katz BP. Oral corticosteroid therapy for patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disea...

This systematic review aimed to synthesize the evidence of psychometric properties self-efficacy patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary dise...

Serum creatinine, urinary creatinine and endogenous creatinine clearance were measured in various age groups in normal subjects and in those suffering from renal disorders. Serum creatinine was found to be significantly high in cases of chronic renal failure and renal hypertension. Serum and urinary creatinine levels in normal subjects were found to vary with the age. (JPMA 31:225, 1981).

SUMMARY A sensitive, reproducible and rapid analytical method that is capable of identifying the presence of lung damage at an early stage is required, We have developed a sensitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for desmosine in human body fluids. An amino group of des-mosine was exclusively linked to bovine gamma globulin and the high-titer antibody to this conjugate was prepared. This ant...

Increased tubular creatinine secretion by remnant nephrons—unexplained but informative? Sir, It is well known that declining kidney function is accompanied by an increasing contribution of tubular creatinine secretion to the total creatinine clearance; secretion may account for as much as 50% of creatinine clearance in the later stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD). The implications of this p...

The word ‘‘Obstructive’’ is misspelled in the article title. The correct title is: Increased Iron Sequestration in Alveolar Macrophages in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. The correct citation is: Philippot Q, Deslée G, Adair-Kirk TL, Woods JC, Byers D, et al. (2014) Increased Iron Sequestration in Alveolar Macrophages in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. PLoS ONE 9(5): e96285. doi:1...