Pulmonary function measures are the basis for the diagnosis of COPD, an important clinical outcome; therefore, we also looked-up the 52 novel loci identified in the European ancestry or multiethnic meta-analyses in the International COPD Genetics Consortium (ICGC). This consortium recently published ...
Second, although any ICD-9 code may be entered as a cause of readmission, many thoracic-relevant variables, such as atrial fibrillation, duration of air leak, and pulmonary function tests, are not collected during the index hospitalization. As such, these important factors were unable to be ...
freedom from any re-intervention, autograft re-intervention, or homograft re-intervention and time-related valve function, autograft diameter, and functional status. This study included 108 adults (92 [85 %] male) with a median age of 38 years (range of 19 to 66 years). Median duration of ...
Due to increased use of echocardiography over time and the common use of echocardiography to diagnose pulmonary hypertension, we created an echo risk score that estimates the probability of receiving an echocardiogram after 30 days of age as a function of year and site as predictors i...
It has been postulated that active TB infection is immunosuppressive and that treatment of TB would lead to improved immune function and an increase in antigen-specific IFN-γ production by T cells.[17] Our data support an alternate hypothesis that treatment leads to decreased antigen burden and,...
Prior studies indicate that pirfenidone and nintedanib use is associated with slowing of lung function deterioration, as well as reduced short-term mortality and reduction in hospital- izations [4–6, 12]. In this large cohort, we observed that only 10% of patients were initiated on an anti-...
J Cardiovasc Pharmacol Therapeut 2002; 7: 9-19.Kim NHS, Rubin LJ. Endothelin in health and disease: endothelin receptor antagonists in the management of pulmonary artery hypertension. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol Ther 2002; 7: 9-19.Kim NH, Rubin LJ. Endothelin in health and disease: endothelin ...
Gene set scoring was performed using the scanpy rank_gene_groups function with enrichment calculated using a t test score and benjamini-hochberg correction for multiple comparisons. Gene set enrichment analysis was performed using gseapy 0.10.5 using KEGG and GO Term gene sets as described. Dual ...
Due to increased use of echocardiography over time and the common use of echocardiography to diagnose pulmonary hypertension, we created an echo risk score that estimates the probability of receiving an echocardiogram after 30 days of age as a function of year and site as predictors ...
(ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) and incubated under 37° C., adding 10 ml medium B to cease the function of trypsin when cells come off the surface of the flask, collecting the medium containing the cells in the sterile centrifuge tube and discarding the supernatant after the centrifugation, ...