As a result, the specificity of IBP was lower and the diagnostic gain of IBP was smaller than expected. In the rheumatology setting no striking differences among defined IBP criteria (Calin, Berlin, ...

The results of this review of response to treatment forms part of the diagnostic ... oxygen rather than the criteria for deciding who needs oxygen therapy. Exacerbations are now recognised as key ...

Objective: To provide more rigorous diagnostic criteria for PNS. Methods: An international panel of neurologists interested in PNS identified those defined as “classical” in previous studies. The ...

Background In hospitalised patients with exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary ... history of 10 or more cigarette pack years. Exclusion criteria were any illness, other than COPD, that was ...

University of Alabama at Birmingham-led researchers have refined and validated a new framework for diagnosing chronic ...

9. Myocardial Infarction Associated With Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (Type 4a Myocardial Infarction) e629 10. Stent/Scaffold Thrombosis Associated With Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (Type ...

Objective: COPD is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Health care providers should counsel their smoking patients with COPD to quit smoking as the first treatment step.

This study evaluated the potential impact of starting LTOT on acute exacerbation and hospital burden in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), interstitial ... and not fulfilling ...

Current recommendations for diagnosis of COPD in patients with respiratory symptoms require detection of airflow obstruction ...

Incorporating chest CT imaging and respiratory symptoms into the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnostic ...

Current diagnostic criteria for PLS may be a barrier to therapeutic development, requiring long delays between symptom onset and formal diagnosis. While new technologies sensitive to both upper and ...

Suggested diagnostic and treatment recommendations for AM and chronic inflammatory cardiomyopathy are mainly based on expert opinion given the lack of well-designed contemporary clinical studies in ...