Preventing COPD exacerbations with macrolides: A review and budget impact analysis
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Impact of exacerbations on COPD.
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cing tumour, is physiologically foreseeable owing to the sudden deprivation of catecholamines, as well as deprivation of other tumour-secreted bronchodilator substances, such as adrenomedullin [4], vasoactive intestinal peptide or pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide [5]. There are, however, few reports of respiratory problems in patients with pheochromocytoma and all, in contrast to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Respiratory Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0954-6111
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2012.12.019