50 Pleural fluid analysis is nonspecific but can help rule out other causes, such as malignant disease, tuberculosis, or pneumonia with a parapneumonic effusion.50,51 The fluid may be transudative or exudative, sometimes bloody, and the white blood cell count usually ranges from 100 to more ...
This study has been financially supported by the Organization for Respiratory Heath in Finland, The Research Foundation of the Pulmonary Diseases (JK), Jalmari and Rauha Ahokas Foundation (JK, RK), the Finnish Antituberculosis Association Foundation (MM, RK), Academy of Finland (MM, RK) and Sig...
In the next iteration of GBD, we plan to quantify a past history of pulmonary tuberculosis as an additional risk factor for COPD as there is growing evidence for a causal relationship.51, 52 We did not estimate air pollution as a risk for asthma, because we had insufficient evidence for ...
This study has been financially supported by the Organization for Respiratory Heath in Finland, The Research Foundation of the Pulmonary Diseases (JK), Jalmari and Rauha Ahokas Foundation (JK, RK), the Finnish Antituberculosis Association Foundation (MM, RK), Academy of Finland (MM, RK) and Sig...
Drug-specific risk of non-tuberculosis opportunistic infections in patients receiving anti-TNF therapy reported to the 3-year prospective French RATIO registry. Ann. Rheum. Dis. 2011, 70, 616–623. [CrossRef] [PubMed] 92. Hung, M.L.; Liao, H.T.; Chen, W.S.; Chen, M.H.; Lai, ...