Pulmonary fibrosis
Aging and Pulmonary Fibrosis
... Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a chronic, progressive, and usually fatal lung disorder of unknown ...Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis occurs in middle-aged and mainly elderly adults, and in ...
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Overexpression of MMP9 in macrophages attenuates pulmonary fibrosis induced by bleomycin
... Pulmonary fibrosis is a common response to a variety of lung injuries, characterized by fibroblast/myofibroblast expansion and abnormal accumulation of extracellular ...lung fibrosis has been ...
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Associated Interstitial Lung Disease and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Shared Mechanistic and Phenotypic Traits Suggest Overlapping Disease Mechanisms
... Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Network (IPFNet) found increased rates of death and hospitalization in the group receiving immunosuppres- sion with prednisone, azathioprine, and N-acetylcyste- ine 52 ...
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A multicenter study confirms CD226 gene association with systemic sclerosis-related pulmonary fibrosis.
... ACA. Pulmonary fibro- sis was diagnosed by High Resolution Computed Tomography ...and pulmonary fibrosis data were avail- able for all the patients included in this report (Table S1 in Additional ...
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Lung function in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis--extended analyses of the IFIGENIA trial.
... Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a distinct clinical and histopathologic entity, which accounts for approxi- mately two thirds of the idiopathic interstitial pneumo- nias (IIP), and is associated with ...
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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: new insights in its pathogenesis
... Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a unique type of chronic fibrosing lung disease of unknown etiology. The sequence of the pathogenic mechanisms is unknown, but the disease is characterized by ...
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Gene Expression Profiles Distinguish Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis from Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
... Taken together, these results support the existence of at least two different routes for developing diffuse pulmonary fibrosis. One of them is through an inflammatory pathway represented by HP, where there is an ...
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Surfactant protein A and B genetic variants predispose to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
... in pulmonary function (Takahashi et ...to pulmonary disease, we deem them to be good candidates in the study of IPF and speculate that their genetic polymorphisms will help to identify sub- groups at ...
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Up-Regulation and Profibrotic Role of Osteopontin in Human Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
... Using oligonucleotide microarrays we previously demon- strated that osteopontin is highly up-regulated in bleomycin- induced lung fibrosis in mice, and we reported similar results in a preliminary report involving five IPF ...
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Major histocompatibility complex and alveolar epithelial apoptosis in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
... Abstract Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic disease characterized by fibroblast expansion, and tissue remodeling. It is considered a multifactorial disease but the possible involved genes are largely ...
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Support System for Semiautomatic Quantification of Pulmonary Fibrosis in CT Images
... El método propuesto fue probado en 10 imágenes en 2D de TAC provenientes de dos pacientes diagnosticados con fibrosis pulmonar. Los resultados encontrados mostraron ser comparables cualitativamente con el proceso ...
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Unbalanced collagenases/TIMP-1 expression and epithelial apoptosis in experimental lung fibrosis
... in pulmonary fibrosis, and several mechanisms seem to be involved (11, 17, 18, ...pathic pulmonary fibrosis induce alveolar epithelial cell apoptosis by secreting angiotensin peptides (55), ...
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Enfermedades pulmonares intersticiales. Una perspectiva actual.
... idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, advances in the diagnosis and management of hypersensitivity pneumonitis and a review of the broad spectrum of interstitial diseases associated with connective tissue ...
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Fibrosis Pulmonar Idiopática Tratamiento Consderaciones generales pdf
... Los otros dos ensayos, incluyendo pacientes norteamericanos y europeos se enmarcan bajo el acrónimo CAPACITY (Clinical Assessing Pirfenidone in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Research of Efficacy and Safety ...
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Portopulmonary hypertension: state of the art
... the pulmonary he- modynamics (mPAP, PVR or TPG) or severity of liver dis- ease between survivors and non-survivors suggesting that in POPH we cannot predict who is going to do poor- ly based on pulmonary ...
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Pulmonary Vasoreactivity and Phenotypes in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Associated to Connective Tissue Diseases
... of pulmonary hypertension: the joint task force for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension of the European society of cardiology (ESC) and the European respiratory society (ERS): endorsed by: ...
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Alteraciones oxidativas en el pulmón
... La fibrosis pulmonar primaria, caracterizada por daño en la región alveolar y acumulación de macrófagos y neutrófilos, lesión de las células parenquimatosas y fibrosis de las paredes alveolares, parece ...
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Fibrosis pulmonar ideopática
... Dr. Moisés Selman. En los pacientes con la forma acelerada de la enfermedad (progresores rápidos) encontramos una disminución de la expresión del receptor de los productos finales de la glicación avanzada denominado RAGE ...
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Enfermedad hepática por alcohol
... Excessive alcohol consumption is an important cause of preventable morbidity and mortality. We have to be alert to chronic alcohol usage or abuse. Simple tests (AUDIT, CAGE) can be applied quickly on outpatient care. We ...
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Farmacogenética en Fibrosis Quística
... El defecto pancreático en la FQ es un síndrome de alteraciones digestivas debido a la deficiencia en la secreción de enzimas pancreáticas 2 . En el páncreas, CFTR está localizado en la superficie apical de las células de ...
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