OBJECTIVE To review the clinical associations between peritoneal dialysis (PD) and cough. METHODOLOGY A literature review was performed on PubMed for articles published between 1983 and 2004 using the search terms "dialysis" and "cough." RESULTS/CONCLUSIONS Patients receiving PD are more likely to develop a cough than other patients with end-stage renal disease who are receiving hemodialysi...

BACKGROUND Patients who complain of a persistent cough lasting >3 weeks after experiencing the acute symptoms of an upper respiratory tract infection may have a postinfectious cough. Such patients are considered to have a subacute cough because the condition lasts for no >8 weeks. The chest radiograph findings are normal, thus ruling out pneumonia, and the cough eventually resolves, usually on ...

Smoking is now universally recognized as the leading cause of two of the most frequent respiratory diseases, bronchial carcinoma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Despite this evidence, the problems associated with nicotine addiction and smoking cessation occupy a relatively small space in The Journal and at our Annual Congress, which suggests that respiratory physicians are not...

The vision of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) is that, in 20–30 years, most clinical pharmacy practitioners will be boardcertified specialists. 2 This White Paper develops a rationale for this position, describes specialty board certification in pharmacy, and articulates recommendations for attaining the vision. The justification of the need for board certification as a part of...

2007;132;306-313 Chest Douglas Arenberg (2nd Edition) Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines Bronchioloalveolar Lung Cancer: ACCP http://chestjournal.org/cgi/content/abstract/132/3_suppl/306S and services can be found online on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information ). ISSN: 0012-3692. http://www.chestjournal.org/misc/reprints.shtml ( of t...

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Background In patients with systemic scleroderma (SSD) overproduction of anti-U1ribonucleoprotein, there are features in the clinical picture and course disease. Objectives The aim study is to level major autoantibodies who positive for anti-U1ribonucleoprotein. Methods included 55 (48 women 7 men, mean age 41.5±11.5 years), anti-U1ribonucleoprotein meeting American College Rheumatology/Europea...

Background: An inflammatory condition that affects the joints in limbs is rheumatoid arthritis. The most common symptom chronic, recurrent joint inflammation. When patients are advanced, deformities and impairments may cause major impediments cardiac, skin, as well other tissues organs. A protein called cellular CCN3 implicated many biological processes such cell adhesion, migration, proliferat...