BACKGROUND Bronchodilators are used for managing the symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and minimizing the risk of hospitalization and readmission. Hospital readmission is predictive of morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVE The study objective was to compare all-cause readmission risk in COPD patients receiving nebulized long-acting β2-agonists (neb-LABAs) versus nebulized ...

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S.Tartakover-Matalon1,5, N.Cherepnin1, M.Kuchuk2, L.Drucker1,4, I.Kenis2, A.Fishman3,4, M.Pomeranz3 and M.Lishner1,2,4 Oncogenetic Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Meir Medical Centre, Kfar-Saba and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel–Aviv University, Israel To whom corresponding should be addressed at: Oncogenetic Laboratory, Meir Medical Centre, 45 Tsher...

Rosenthal [R] introduced the Lp space Xp in 1971. Among its interesting properties are that it contains and is contained in isomorphs of lp ⊕ l2, but is not isomorphic to a complemented subspace of lp⊕ l2. These properties have made Xp rather resistant to standard approaches to classifying its complemented subspaces. For example it was first proved that Xp was primary in [JO2] where the device ...

Glycoconjugates expressed on gastric mucosa play a crucial role in host-pathogen interactions. The FUT2 enzyme catalyzes the addition of terminal alpha(1,2)fucose residues, producing the H type 1 structure expressed on the surface of epithelial cells and in mucosal secretions of secretor individuals. Inactivating mutations in the human FUT2 gene are associated with reduced susceptibility to Hel...

u in a a n in li h r la d c ta H T SUMMARY A self-answered, anonymously completed questionnaire survey was performed between June 2002 and May 2003 where doctors from government and private sectors in Malaysia were invited to participate by post or during medical meetings. One hundred and sixteen government doctors and 110 private doctors provided satisfactorily completed questionnaires (effect...

Organisms belonging to the genus Streptomyces produce numerous important secondary metabolites and undergo a sophisticated morphological differentiation program. In many instances these processes are under the control of gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) autoregulatory systems. Streptomyces acidiscabies strain 84.104 produces the secondary metabolite aromatic angucyclinone polyketide WS5995B. In order ...