Interstitial lung disease (ILD) induces overwhelming morbidity and kills more patients with connective tissue disease (CTD) than any other CTD-related manifestation. Because of this, there is a keen and growing interest in the rheumatology and pulmonary communities to identify prognostic variables for CTDassociated ILD (CTD-ILD). Treatment options for patients with ILD, idiopathic as well as th...

The World Health organization has recommended childhood immunization with Teatuns vaccine (or TT containing vaccines) with a 5 doses schedule [1]. This included a 3 doses in infancy as DPT, followed by booster at 4-7 year and another dose at 12-15 years of age [1]. However, the national immunization schedule in Universal Immunization Program (UIP) in India, recommends at least 7 doses of Tetanu...

The development of pulmonary fibrosis is the end point of a wide range of respiratory diseases including organic and inorganic dust exposure, pulmonary infection, acute lung injury, radiation, the idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIP), and connective tissue diseases. The most common fibrotic lung disorder is idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), an IIP with the histological appearance of usua...

A 75-year-old man was referred to our hospital with a 1-year history of persistent dry cough and progressive dyspnoea on exertion. He was treated with aspirin due to thrombosis of internal carotid artery. He was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)/usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP), and started on inhaled N-acetylcysteine therapy and pirfenidone. Since his clinical condition prog...

This paper test for multiple unknown breaks in UIP regressions for seven major currencies and the years 1980-98. For periods of EMS turbulence and crises we observe a switch from the “usual” negatively signed OLS slope coefficient to high positive values. This result can be nicely explained in the framework of McCallum’s (1994) monetary policy reaction model as a consequence of a decrease in th...

Decorin, a small leucin-rich proteoglycan, is a negative regulator of transforming growth factor-beta, but the antifibrotic effect of decorin gene transfer has not been examined in a mouse model of usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP). We constructed a replication-defective recombinant adenovirus harboring human decorin gene (AdCMV.DC) and administered 1 x l0(9) plaque-forming units of AdCMV.DC i...

We report a case of immunoglobulin(Ig)G4-related disease with the radiologic and histopathological manifestations resembling usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP). The patient was a 62-year-old man who presented with progressive dyspnea of insidious onset. High resolution computed tomography of the chest showed lower-lobe predominant peripheral reticulation and traction bronchiectasis but no honey...

Representing Australian Curriculum for education in a form amenable to the Semantic Web and conforming to the Achievement Standards Network (ASN) schema required a new RDF instance data editor for describing bounded graphs—what the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative calls a ‘description set’. Developed using a ‘describe and relate’ metaphor, the editor reported here eliminates all need for authors...