"Smoking Killed Me" Sign Placed on Grave
Man Who Died from Emphysema Had His Dying Wish Granted to Warn Young People about Dangers of Smoking (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)...
POSTED 03/03/2010 at 03:30 PM --
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'Smoking Killed Me' Sign Put On Hearse
A smoker who died after battling emphysema has had his dying wish granted with the placement of a "Smoking killed me" sign on his hearse and his grave. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)...
POSTED 03/03/2010 at 07:01 AM --
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AAAAI: Compound Protects Animals Against COPD (CME/CE)
NEW ORLEANS (MedPage Today) -- Preclinical research suggests that an analogue of an anti-AIDS drug might prove effective in protecting against bouts of emphysema or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), investigators reported here. (Source: MedPage Today Allergy)...
POSTED 03/02/2010 at 03:44 PM --
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Fla. Judge Cuts Jury Award to Former Smoker
Philip Morris will have to pay $38.9 million to a former smoker with emphysema instead of the $300 million ordered by a jury, a Florida judge has ruled. (Source: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News)...
POSTED 03/01/2010 at 11:56 AM --
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Pneumomediastinum: is this really a benign entity? When it can be considered as spontaneous? Our experience in 47 adult patients [Original articles]
Conclusions: (1) It is known that occasional consumption of cocaine causes diffuse alveolar damage, haemorrhage, etc. The cause–effect relationship consumption–appearance in a few hours of spontaneous pneumomediastinum leads us to appreciate this form of consumption as a causal factor rather than a predisposing/precipitating factor as it appears in the literature on the topic. (2) Spontaneous pneumomediastinum is considered a benign disorder but, as shown by our series, a bad outcome may represent an immediate life-threatening condition, forcing an invasive manoeuvre. We always recommend performing a chest CT scan on admission to predict the evolution. (Source: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery)...
POSTED 02/26/2010 at 04:01 PM --
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Tracheal lacerations after endotracheal intubation: a proposed morphological classification to guide non-surgical treatment [Original articles]
Conclusions: Level I or II PITL should be managed non-surgically. When adequate respiratory status is present, Level IIIA PITL can be managed conservatively in selected institutions only, because these injuries are high-risk injuries. Any PITL associated with injury involving the oesophagus or with mediastinitis (Level IIIB) must be treated as soon as possible by surgery. (Source: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery)...
POSTED 02/26/2010 at 04:01 PM --
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Identification of a rare p.G320R alpha-1-antitrypsin variant in emphysema and lung cancer patients
This study reports on the characterization of a p.G320R variant found in two patients, one with emphysema and the other with lung cancer. This variant results from a single base-pair substitution in exon 4 of the A1AT gene, and has been characterized as P by isoelectric focusing. Functional evaluation of the A1AT p.G320R variant was through comparing specific trypsin inhibitory activity in two patients with pulmonary disorders, carriers of the p.G320R variant, and 19 healthy individuals, carriers of normal A1AT M variants. Results showed that specific trypsin inhibitory activity was lower in both emphysema (2.45 mU/g) and lung cancer (2.07 mU/g) patients than in carriers of the normal variants (range 2.51-3.71 mU/g). This rare A1AT variant is associated with reduced functional activity of ......
POSTED 02/26/2010 at 10:04 AM --
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Alpha-1 antitrypsin gene polymorphism in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
In this study we tested the hypothesis that common AAT polymorphisms influence the risk of developing COPDs. We investigated PiM1 (Ala213Val), PiM2 (Arg101His), PiM3 (Glu376Asp), PiS (Glu264Val) and PiZ (Glu342Lys) SERPINA1 alleles in 100 COPD patients and 200 healthy controls. No significant differences were observed in allele frequencies between COPD patients and controls, neither did haplotype analysis show significant differences between the two groups. A cross-sectional study revealed no significant relationship between common SERPINA1 polymorphisms (PiM1, PiM2, PiM3) and the emphysematous type of COPD. In addition, FEV1 annual decline, determined during a two-year follow up period, revealed no difference among carriers of the tested polymorphisms. (Source: Genetics and Molecular Biol......
POSTED 02/26/2010 at 10:04 AM --
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Smoke from home fuels tied to emphysema
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who burn wood or other "biofuels" for heat or cooking may have a heightened risk of emphysema and related lung conditions, a new study suggests. (Source: Reuters: Health)...
POSTED 02/25/2010 at 12:16 PM --
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Smoke from Home Fuels Tied to Emphysema
People who burn wood or other "biofuels" for heat or cooking may have a heightened risk of emphysema and related lung conditions, a new study suggests.Source: Reuters Health
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Emphysema, Indoor Air Pollution (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)...
POSTED 02/25/2010 at 12:16 PM --
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Researchers Receive NIH Grant To Study Autoimmune Lung Disease
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati Interstitial Lung Disease Center have received a grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study ways ILD first appears in certain patient groups with autoimmune diseases and how to more efficiently diagnose and treat it. ILD is a group of diseases that affect the tissues of the lungs instead of the airways, like asthma and emphysema do. It causes scarring of the lungs, is more difficult to diagnosis and treat than other kinds of lung diseases and is often fatal... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)...
POSTED 02/25/2010 at 02:00 AM --
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Gierada DS, Woods JC, Bierhals AJ, et al. Effects of diffusion time on short-range hyperpolarized 3He diffusivity measurements in emphysema. J Magn Reson Imaging 2009;30:801-808
No abstract. (Source: Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging)...
POSTED 02/24/2010 at 06:00 PM --
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Letter to the Editor re: Evolution of emphysema in relation to smoking
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Letter to the EditorDOI 10.1007/s00330-010-1728-4Authors
Nicola Sverzellati, University of Parma Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Radiology Ospedale Maggiore di Parma, Padiglione Barbieri, V. Gramsci 14 43100 Parma ItalyElisa Calabrò, National Cancer Institute of Milan Division of Thoracic Surgery V. Venezian 1 20133 Milan ItalyJan-Martin Kunighk, Institute for Medical Image Computing Fraunhofer MEVIS Universitätsallee 29 28359 Bremen GermanyGiorgia Randi, University of Milan Institute of Medical Statistics and Biometry “G. A. Maccacaro” Cascina Rosa, V. Vanzetti 5 20133 Milan ItalyUgo Pastorino, National Cancer Institute of Milan Division of Thoracic Surgery V. Venezian 1 20133 Milan Italy
Journal European RadiologyOnline I......
POSTED 02/24/2010 at 12:47 AM --
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Reply to Letter to the Editor re: Evolution of emphysema in relation to smoking
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory ReplyDOI 10.1007/s00330-010-1724-8Authors
Massimo Bellomi, European Institute of Oncology Department of Radiology 435, Via Ripamonti 20141 Milan ItalyPatrick Maisonneuve, European Institute of Oncology Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Milan ItalySara Raimondi, European Institute of Oncology Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Milan ItalyGiulia Veronesi, European Institute of Oncology Department of Thoracic Surgery Milan Italy
Journal European RadiologyOnline ISSN 1432-1084Print ISSN 0938-7994 (Source: European Radiology)...
POSTED 02/24/2010 at 12:47 AM --
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Unilateral Extrapulmonary Airway Bypass in Advanced Emphysema [ORIGINAL ARTICLES: GENERAL THORACIC]
Conclusions
An extrapulmonary airway bypass increases expiratory flow in emphysema. This may be a useful approach in hyperinflated patients with homogeneous emphysema. (Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery)...
POSTED 02/23/2010 at 04:46 PM --
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Transplant Pneumonectomy in a Patient With an Acutely Thrombosed Allograft [CASE REPORTS]
We present a case of an elderly woman who is 3 years postoperative left, single lung transplantation with a history of emphysema that developed extensive infarction of her transplanted lung secondary to thromboembolic disease. She required an allograft pneumonectomy as treatment for this and was eventually discharged on bi-level nasal positive pressure at night and 3 L nasal cannula oxygen during the day. (Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery)...
POSTED 02/23/2010 at 04:46 PM --
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Transplant Pneumonectomy in a Patient With an Acutely Thrombosed Allograft.
We present a case of an elderly woman who is 3 years postoperative left, single lung transplantation with a history of emphysema that developed extensive infarction of her transplanted lung secondary to thromboembolic disease. She required an allograft pneumonectomy as treatment for this and was eventually discharged on bi-level nasal positive pressure at night and 3 L nasal cannula oxygen during the day.
PMID: 20172174 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery)...
POSTED 02/23/2010 at 07:09 AM --
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Density-based MDCT quantification of lobar lung volumes: a study of inter- and intraobserver reproducibility
Conclusions MDCT quantification of total and emphysematous lung volume and emphysema index is overall reproducible. Quantitative assessment
of those parameters performed on single lobes is affected by variability. An improvement of the reproducibility of q-MDCT
is expected from the use of advanced methods for lobar segmentation.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Chest Radiology/Radiologia ToracicaDOI 10.1007/s11547-010-0536-xAuthors
F. Molinari, Catholic University of Rome, Policlinico A. Gemelli Department of Bioimaging and Radiological Sciences L.go F. Vito 1 00168 Rome ItalyM. Amato, Catholic University of Rome, Policlinico A. Gemelli Department of Bioimaging and Radiological Sciences L.go F. Vito 1 00168 Rome ItalyM. Stefanetti, Catholic University of Rome, P......
POSTED 02/23/2010 at 01:59 AM --
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Pulmonx raises $31.5M in funding
Emphysema treatment company Pulmonx Corp. has raised $31.5 million in funding, according to a filing from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)...
POSTED 02/22/2010 at 06:08 PM --
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Endoscopic Management of Emphysema
Lung volume reduction surgery has proven benefits in emphysema. However, high postoperative morbidity and stringent selection criteria for suitable candidates are limitations in clinical practice. Endoscopic approaches to lung volume reduction have used a range of different techniques such as endobronchial blockers, airway bypass, endobronchial valves, biologic sealants, and airway implants to address the limitations of surgery. The underlying physiologic mechanisms of endoscopic modalities vary, and homogeneous and heterogeneous emphysema are targeted. Currently available data on efficacy of bronchoscopic lung volume reduction are not consistently conclusive, and subjective benefit in dyspnea scores is a more frequent finding than improvements on spirometry or exercise tolerance. The safe......
POSTED 02/22/2010 at 09:57 AM --
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