Several sources of evidence, including investigations of pathogenesis and observational
studies, support the hypothesis that environmental agents may have an etiologic role in …

Reexpansion of collapsed lung creates intrapulmonary shear forces. In an earlier study we
showed that application of a negative end-expiratory airway pressure (NEEP) to normal …

BACKGROUND Bedaquiline is an oral antimycobacterial agent belonging to a new class of
drugs called diarylquinolines. It has low equivalent minimal inhibitory concentrations for …

Importance Alteration in lung microbes is associated with disease progression in idiopathic
pulmonary fibrosis. Objective To assess the effect of antimicrobial therapy on clinical …

Of the idiopathic lung diseases, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and sarcoidosis have
been the focus of a growing number of epidemiological investigations on the risk of …

Background Acute increases in nasal resistance are known to induce upper airway occlusion
in predisposed subjects. With the limited efficacy of nasal surgery alone in the treatment of …

Background: Carbon dioxide elimination ( Vco 2 ) at steady state corresponds to the
metabolic rate. A change in tidal ventilation will lead to a transient response in Vo 2 if other …

Electrical lighting and increasing capital intensiveness have helped undermine the importance
that society previously placed on obtaining adequate sleep. Even modest amounts of …

Study Objectives: To determine if obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) predisposes
patients to glaucoma and macular disease due to vascular compromise by evaluating retinal …

Bronchiectasis Nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM nb) infection is an emerging health
problem in breast cancer (BCa) patients. We measured sera exosome proteome in BCa-NTM …