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Expert en Médecine, Optimisation des Parcours de Soins et Révision Médicale
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3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Division of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.
Publications dans "Expectoration" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Airway Research Center North (ARCN), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Großhansdorf, Germany.
Pulmonary Research Institute at LungenClinic Grosshansdorf, Großhansdorf, Germany.
Publications dans "Expectoration" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Medicines Evaluation Unit, The University of Manchester, Manchester University NHS Foundation Hospital Trust, Manchester, UK.
Publications dans "Expectoration" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Publications dans "Expectoration" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, Southampton Centre for Biomedical Research, Southampton, UK.
Publications dans "Expectoration" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Dept of Pulmonary Diseases, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Publications dans "Expectoration" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Dept of Pulmonary Diseases, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Publications dans "Expectoration" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Dept of Pulmonary Diseases, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, Groningen, The Netherlands.
University of Technology Sydney, Respiratory Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology (RBMB), School of Life Sciences, Sydney, Australia.
These authors contributed equally.
Publications dans "Expectoration" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Dept of Pulmonary Diseases, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, Groningen, The Netherlands.
These authors contributed equally.
Publications dans "Expectoration" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Unit, Dept of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
Publications dans "Expectoration" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Unit, Dept of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
Publications dans "Expectoration" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive, NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Publications dans "Expectoration" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive, NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive, NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Publications dans "Expectoration" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Publications dans "Expectoration" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive, NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. mdparkin@ucalgary.ca.
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive, NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. mdparkin@ucalgary.ca.
Publications dans "Expectoration" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
LungenClinic Grosshansdorf, Großhansdorf, Germany.
Airway Research Center North (ARCN), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Großhansdorf, Germany.
Pulmonary Research Institute at LungenClinic Grosshansdorf, Großhansdorf, Germany.
Publications dans "Expectoration" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
LungenClinic Grosshansdorf, Großhansdorf, Germany.
Airway Research Center North (ARCN), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Großhansdorf, Germany.
Publications dans "Expectoration" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Pathology & Clinical Labs, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Publications dans "Expectoration" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
Publications dans "Expectoration" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
Publications dans "Expectoration" :
Lung diseases affect pulmonary and respiratory function and are caused by bacterial viral and fungal infection as well as environmental factors. Unfortunately, symptom overlap between various pulmonar...
We aimed to conduct a state-of-the-art review of the current literature and offer further insights into the methodological aspects concerning induced sputum. The increasing popularity of sputum induct...
Recent advancements in asthma management include non-invasive methodologies such as sputum analysis, exhaled breath condensate (EBC), and fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO). These techniques offer...
Cough and sputum are major symptoms in cystic fibrosis (CF) that contribute to the impairment of quality of life....
This prospective single centre cross-sectional pilot study aimed to evaluate the results of a self-administered questionnaire assessing cough and sputum symptoms (2 domains), and their impact (2 domai...
Forty-eight patients were included in this analysis (69% men; median age of 27.8 ± 8.1 years; median body mass index of 21.8 + 3.3 kg/m²; mean FEV...
CASA-Q allows the assessment of cough and sputum in CF adult patients and is associated with quality of life impairment. This simple easy-to-use tool could be used in routine clinical practice and in ...
The study was registered on ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02924818, first posted on 5th October 2016)....
To assess differences in the sputum microbiota of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) patients with either COPD or asthma, specifically focusing on a patient population in Turkey....
This retrospective study included hospitalized patients > 18 years of age with a diagnosis of pneumonia between January of 2021 and January of 2023. Participants were recruited from two hospitals, and...
A total of 246 patients with CAP were included in the study, 184 (74.8%) and 62 (25.2%) being males and females, with a mean age of 66 ± 14 years. Among the participants, 52.9% had COPD, 14.2% had ast...
This study demonstrates that CAP patients with COPD tend to have more severe presentations, while CAP patients with asthma show varied microbial profiles, underscoring the need for patient-specific ma...
Hyper-secretion and/or hyper-concentration of mucus is a defining feature of multiple obstructive lung diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Mucus itself is composed of a m...
Sputum immunoglobulin G (Sp-IgG) has been discovered to induce cytolytic extracellular trap cell death in eosinophils, suggesting a potential autoimmune mechanism contributing to asthma. This study ai...
This study included 165 asthmatic patients and 38 healthy volunteers. We measured Sp-IgG and its five subtypes against eosinophil inflammatory proteins (Sp-IgG...
The levels of Sp-IgG and Sp-IgG...
This study identifies a significant association between airway eosinophilic inflammation, Sp-IgG, and asthma severity. The Sp-IgG...
Despite great progress in the field, chronic...
Different eosinophil subpopulations have been identified in asthma and other eosinophilic disorders. However, there is a paucity of data on eosinophil subpopulations in patients with chronic obstructi...
Limited data exist on longitudinal changes in the sputum bacterial microbiome during treatment in nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (NTM-PD) patients. We prospectively collected serial sp...