STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the restrictive effects of two spinal immobilization strapping techniques on the respiratory capacity of normal, healthy children. DESIGN Prospective study with each subject serving as his own control. PARTICIPANTS Fifty-one healthy children 6 to 15 years old. INTERVENTIONS Participants' forced vital capacity (FVC) measurements were first obtained with children s...

Objectives: This study was aimed to determine the Effect effect of incentive spirometry on pulmonary function tests in patients undergoing hemodialysis. Methods: This study was a randomized clinical trial conducted in on hemodialysis patients. The obtained Data were collected from 26 patients in the experimental and 26 patients in the control group. In The the control group, patients received ...

PURPOSE Airway remodeling may be responsible for irreversible airway obstruction in asthma, and a low post-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC ratio can be used as a noninvasive marker of airway remodeling. We investigated correlations between airway wall indices on computed tomography (CT) and various clinical indices, including post-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC ratio, in patients with asthma. METHODS Volume...

BACKGROUND MicroRNAs are key transcriptional and network regulators previously associated with asthma susceptibility. However, their role in relation to asthma severity has not been delineated. OBJECTIVE We hypothesized that circulating microRNAs could serve as biomarkers of changes in lung function in asthma patients. METHODS We isolated microRNAs from serum samples obtained at randomizati...

The fractional vegetation coverage (FVC) can visually represent ecological changes in a region. Based on MDO12A1 data to calculate FVC, we investigated the spatial and temporal variations of FVC Qinghai Province from 2001 2015 performed correlation analysis with annual mean temperature rainfall. results indicate that increase gradually northwest southeast are discontinuous due topographic varia...

The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic and interpretative consequences of adopting the Global Lungs Initiative (GLI) 2012 spirometric prediction equations. We assessed spirometric records from 17 572 subjects (49.5% females), aged 18-85 years, from hospitals in Australia and Poland. We calculated predicted forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1), forced expiratory volume (FVC), FE...

Respiratory dysfunction is a major source of morbidity and mortality in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) and an abdominal binder improves efficiency of the diaphragm and inturn has an effect on respiratory function. To find out the effect on Pulmonary Function with Abdominal Compression Binder in Adult Paraplegics. Method: 20 Paraplegic was selected, informed consent was taken. In sitting...

Purified iron-saturated human lactoferrin (LF) was assessed in vivo for effects on the survival rates of C57BL x DBA/2 f, (hereafter called BD2F,) (Fv-2") mice and titers of spleen focus-forming viruses (SI-1-V) in BD2F, and DBA/2 (Fv-2") mice inoculated with the polycythemiainducing strain of the Friend virus complex (FVC-P). LF prolonged the survival rates and decreased the titers of SFFV in ...