BPI-ANCA Provides Additional Clinical Information to Anti-Pseudomonas Serology: Results from a Cohort of 117 Swedish Cystic Fibrosis Patients by Ulrika Lindberg, Malin Carlsson, Thomas Hellmark, Mårten Segelmark

“…Lung function and patient outcome, alive, lung transplanted, or dead, were registered. BPI-ANCA showed the highest correlation with lung function impairment with an r-value of 0.44. …”
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UAV With the Ability to Control with Sign Language and Hand by Image Processing by Hediyeh Hojaji, Alireza Delisnav, Mohammad Hossein Ghafouri Moghaddam, Fariba Ghorbani, Shadi Shafaghi, Masoud Shafaghi

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Mediators of monocyte chemotaxis and matrix remodeling are associated with mortality and pulmonary fibroproliferation in patients with severe COVID-19. by Sarah E Holton, Mallorie Mitchem, Hamid Chalian, Sudhakar Pipavath, Eric D Morrell, Pavan K Bhatraju, Jessica A Hamerman, Cate Speake, Uma Malhotra, Mark M Wurfel, Steven E Ziegler, Carmen Mikacenic

“…Pulmonary fibrosis following COVID-19 pneumonia has been described at autopsy and following lung transplantation. We hypothesized that protein mediators of tissue remodeling and monocyte chemotaxis are elevated in the plasma and endotracheal aspirates of critically ill patients with COVID-19 who subsequently develop features of pulmonary fibroproliferation. …”
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Nonlinear effect of body mass index on postoperative survival following isolated heart transplantation by Reid Dale, PhD, Nataliya Bahatyrevich, MD, MS, Matthew Leipzig, BSc, Maria Elizabeth Currie, MD, PhD

“…No inflection point was observed at either of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation recommended cutoffs of BMI = 30 (HR 1.11, confidence interval [CI] 1.07-1.15) or BMI = 35 (HR 1.29, CI 1.24-1.37). …”
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The value of FDG-PET/CT metabolic parameters and treatment metabolic response in predicting long-term survival of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma by Abbas Yousefikoma, Mohamad Mehdi Karimy Taha

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Nr5a2 promotes cancer stem cell properties and tumorigenesis in nonsmall cell lung cancer by regulating Nanog by Ting Ye, Jingyuan Li, Zhiwei Sun, Yongli Liu, Liangsheng Kong, Shixia Zhou, Junlin Tang, Jianyu Wang, H. Rosie Xing

“…Further, using the syngeneic and orthotopic lung transplantation model, we elucidated augmented cancer biological properties associated with Nr5a2 promotion of LLC‐SD self‐renewal. …”
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Surgical Treatment of Primary Intracardiac Myxoma: 20-Year Experience in “Shahid Modarres Hospital”—A Tertiary University Hospital—Tehran, Iran by Zahra Ansari Aval, Hamid Ghaderi, Hassan Tatari, Mahnoosh Foroughi, Seyedeh Adeleh Mirjafari, Mohammad Forozeshfard, Kamal Fani, Isa Khaheshi

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Harnessing deep learning to detect bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome from chest CT by Mateusz Koziński, Doruk Oner, Jakub Gwizdała, Catherine Beigelman-Aubry, Pascal Fua, Angela Koutsokera, Alessio Casutt, Argyro Vraka, Michele De Palma, John-David Aubert, Horst Bischof, Christophe von Garnier, Sahand Jamal Rahi, Martin Urschler, Nahal Mansouri

“…Abstract Background Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome (BOS), a fibrotic airway disease that may develop after lung transplantation, conventionally relies on pulmonary function tests (PFTs) for diagnosis due to limitations of CT imaging. …”
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Characteristics and outcomes of patients with LAM receiving sirolimus in France based on real-life data by Vincent Cottin, Vincent Cottin, Antoine Cases, Virginie Bourdin, Martine Reynaud-Gaubert, Sandrine Hirschi, Mallorie Kerjouan, Rémi Diesler, Rémi Diesler, Brieux Chardès, Stéphane Fiévez, Nada Assi, Aurélie Schmidt, Hélène Denis, Lidwine Wémeau-Stervinou, Yurdagul Uzunhan

“…In the absence of a specific LAM code in the system, an algorithm was developed to identify patients treated for possible LAM exclusion of other sirolimus indications (transplantation, graft-versus-host disease), or probable LAM (among possible LAM, patients hospitalized for pneumothorax, pleural drainage, pleurisy, ascites, chronic respiratory failure, lung transplantation, or angiomyolipoma). Over the entire study period, 638 patients were considered as treated with sirolimus for possible LAM, including 208 patients treated for “probable” LAM and 33 patients for TSC-LAM. …”
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Acute kidney injury recovery status predicts mortality and cardiorenal outcomes in patients admitted with acute decompensated heart failure by Kavitha Muthiah, Christopher Hayward, James Chong, Kirsty Pringle, Shehane Mahendran, Albert Vien, Sumita Barua, Sanjay Chavali, David Makarious, Phillip Lo

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A Systematic Review on Poisoned Patients as Potential Organ Donors by Kattamreddy Ananth Rupesh, Anirudh Suseel Nalumaru, Mohit Kumar Moses Thathapudi, Omkarnath Sivarchaka, Deekshitha Alla

“…However, the literature presents a plethora of instances showcasing successful organ donations arising from a diverse array of poisonings, ranging from nicotine to hemlock ingestion, and even encompassing lung transplantation following fume poisoning (multiple-18, methanol-12, CO-9, cyanide-5, organophosphate-3, ethylene glycol-3, brodifacoum-2, carbamate-2, ethanol-1, hydrogen sulphide-1, nicotine-1, fume-1, doxepin-1, paraquat-1, hemlock-1, cocaine-1, ecstasy-1, acetaminophen-1 amanita phalloides-1, and trimipramine-1). …”
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Epithelial stem cells from human small bronchi offer a potential for therapy of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosisResearch in context by Zeyu Liu, Qi Zheng, Zhoubin Li, Moli Huang, Cheng Zhong, Ruize Yu, Rong Jiang, Haotian Dai, Jingyuan Zhang, Xiaohua Gu, Yongle Xu, Chunwei Li, Shan Shan, Feng Xu, Yue Hong, Tao Ren

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