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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Respiratory Medicine and Allergy"”.
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Alternative Lead Systems for Diagnostic Electrocardiography: Validation and Clinical Applicability
The standard 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) remains one of the most important and most frequently used tools for diagnosing cardiac diseases, although several different examination modalities in cardio¬logy have been developed over the years. The standard ECG uses 10 electrodes placed on …
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Tissue repair in lung disorders
… disease, asthma, obliterative bronchiolitis, and after lung transplantation is not well understood. One of the key players in fibrosis is the fibroblast and its progenitor, the fibrocyte. The fibroblast is the main producer of extracellular matrix molecules such as collagen, versican, …
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From sneeze to wheeze: Non-invasive studies on asthma and rhinitis
Asthma and allergic rhinitis are diseases that cause major disability and illness in all ethnic groups and ages. It is well established that allergic rhinitis and asthma are closely linked entities and more than 75 % of the patients with asthma reports concomitant rhinitis. Asthma is also closely …
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New aspects of tissue mast cells in inflammatory airway diseases
… milieu such as the skin, gastrointestinal tract and lungs. Mast cells are commonly recognized for their detrimental role in allergic reactions and can, upon activation through the high-affinity receptor for IgE (FcεRI), rapidly produce and secrete many of the mediators responsible for the typical …
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Midkine - a host defence protein
… constitute an anatomical barrier protecting us and they also produce antimicrobial polypeptides (AMPs) that act as a chemical barrier. These AMPs are small and positively charged, killing a broad range of microbes rapidly. They can either be constitutively produced or rapidly induced when …
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Role of Toll-like receptors in airway inflammation
… that detect different microbial structures and activate the immune system. The human TLR family presently comprises ten members (TLR1-TLR10), each with distinct properties. Although the TLRs protect the host from infection, they have become increasingly implicated in the pathogenesis of …
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Assessment of myocardial viability using magnetic resonance imaging
… occlusion is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. During revascularization, microemboli may complicate treatment and affect cardiac function. The long-term effects of microembolization are not fully elucidated. Following an MI it is important to accurately determine the size of the …
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Immunopathological and Structural Alterations in Difficult to Control Asthma
Asthma is a chronic respiratory disorder affecting an estimated 300 million people worldwide. Most patients with asthma can be controlled with bronchodilators and low to moderate dose inhaled corticosteroids. However, an estimated 5-10% of the population presents a more troublesome disease, often …
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The impact of nocturnal CPAP-treatment on sexuality and closeness in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.
Sleep has a major impact on our wellbeing and how we perform.OSA has an estimated prevalence of 2 % in women and 4 % in male and is characterized by repetitive complete (apnoea) or partial (hypopnoea) cessation of breathing. I wondered how the patients managed sexuality and closeness when suffering …
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New Mediators and Novel Mechanisms in Allergic Airway Inflammation
Hyperresponsiveness and inflammation are major pathophysiological features of both allergic rhinitis and asthma. The mechanisms behind these are not fully understood. The aims of this thesis were to investigate if cytokines involved in the allergic response can induce airway hyperreactivity by …
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Exercise physiology and cardiac function. Aspects on determinants of maximal oxygen uptake
… the athletes heart is needed in order to understand how training affects cardiac dimensions and function. Few studies have investigated the effects of training in female athletes and few have compared males and females. Therefore, the aim of this thesis was to characterize the physiologically …
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Antibacterial peptides - key players in host defense at epithelial surfaces
… (GAS), has an affinity for epithelial cells and cause pharyngitis. During streptococcal pharyngitis, high concentrations of the chemokines CXCL9/MIG, CXCL10/IP-10, CXCL11/I-TAC were found in tonsil fluid. Similarly, these chemokines were produced by activated pharyngeal epithelial cells in …
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T-cells in COPD to help or harm? A study of T-cells in COPD patients and related aspects of T-cell function in vitro
… chronic airflow limitation due to inflammation and tissue destruction in the lungs. COPD is caused primarily by smoking and with increasing cigarette consumption in the world, the prevalence for COPD will most probably increase in the future. The chronic inflammation in the lungs of these …
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Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of the Myocardium at Risk
… myocardium subjected to ischemia. Identification and quantification of this so-called myocardium at risk in the acute phase of ischemia has been difficult in patients with conventional methods, such as myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) or electrocardiography. …
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Tomographic ventilation-perfusion lung scintigraphy in cardiopulmonary disease
… on the balance between regional ventilation and perfusion in the lungs. There are many cardiopulmonary diseases, such as pulmonary embolism (PE), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and left heart failure (LHF), which can affect respiration negatively. The diagnosis of PE, COPD and …
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Adjuncts to the Conventional 12-Lead ECG: Assessment of High-Frequency QRS Components and Additional Leads
The standard 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the most commonly used methods for diagnosing heart disease. Standard ECG is not always optimal, however, and new ECG methods can provide additional information. Analysis of high-frequency QRS components (HF-QRS) has been shown to increase the …
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The Voice of the Patient
… (PRO) for clinical evaluation in regard to respiratory allergic disease. Two PROs were validated. The first questionnaire was a disease-specific, health- related quality of life questionnaire that had been developed in England for children with multiple allergic diseases. We translated the …
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Dysfunctional but viable myocardium - ischemic heart disease assessed by magnetic resonance imaging and single photon emission computed tomography
… with regards to function, perfusion and viability. Therefore, in Paper I we developed a method for quantitative polar representation of left ventricular myocardial function, perfusion and viability using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and cardiac magnetic resonance …
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Lung mechanics in the aging lung and in acute lung injury. Studies based on sinusoidal flow modulation.
… intensive care to adjust mechanical ventilation and in the lung laboratory for diagnostics and evaluation of patients with various kinds of respiratory diseases. In mechanical ventilation a single inspiratory elastic pressure-volume (Pel/V) curve is difficult to interpret due to continuing …
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Quantitative assessment of myocardial infarction: On the relationship between anatomy and electrophysiology using MRI and ECG
Both presence and extent of myocardial infarction are important prognostic factors for mortality and quality of life in patients with ischemic heart disease. Thus, it is of great clinical importance to be able to diagnose and characterize myocardial infarction. One way to diagnose myocardial …
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