BACKGROUND China's national tuberculosis control program (NTP) provides free, first-line anti-tuberculosis (TB) drugs to pulmonary TB patients. This treatment regimen follows the World Health Organization's (WHO) guideline. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the current status of anti-TB drug use for newly diagnosed pulmonary TB inpatients treated in prefecture- and county-level designa...

Introduction and Aim Tuberculosis (TB) poses a severe risk to public health through the world but excessively distresses low-income nations. The aim of this study is to analyze silent changes of TB in Iran (2005-2015): A joinpoint regression analysis. Materials and Methods This is a trend study conducted on all patients (n = 70) that register in control disease center of Joibar (one of coasta...

OBJECTIVES The present study aimed to investigate the trends in changes in pulmonary function and the risk factors for pulmonary function deterioration in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis after completing treatment. INTRODUCTION Patients usually have pulmonary function abnormalities after completing treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis. The time course for changes in pulmonary function an...

www.thoracic.org C LI P A N D C O P Y Pulmonary exercise training or pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is a method by which you can exercise despite the limited reserve of your lungs. Exercising despite this limitation ensures your body stays fit and can make the most out of your existing lung function. Exercise is also necessary to ensure you are strong enough to recover from surgery and to make t...

DISCRETE, non-mycotic aortic aneurysm associated with aortic stenosis is a rare entity. Only 11'-cases have been reported in the literature, 10 associated with valvtular lesions and one with subvalvular stenosis (table 1). That this association is not mere]y a coincidence has been demonstrated in several recent papers,-i and the pathogenesis of these aneurysms has been investigated.10-15 It is ...

Pulmonary ventilation and pulmonary arterial pressure both rise progressively during the first few hours of human acclimatization to hypoxia. These responses are highly variable between individuals, but the origin of this variability is unknown. Here, we sought to determine whether the variabilities between different measures of response to sustained hypoxia were related, which would suggest a ...

DURING physiologic studies of total body perfusion we encountered unexpected fluctuations of pulmonary vascular pressures which apparently were related to changes of the blood temperature. The literature does not describe adequately controlled experiments concerned with the effect of blood temperature on pulmonary hemodynaniics. We therefore devised and investigated a preparation in which the i...

transluminal balloon valvuloplasty is an alternative to surgical valvotomy for congenital pulmonary valve stenosis. the aim of this study was to evaluate the long term results (to 13.5 years) of balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty. from june 1998 to january 2012, percutaneous balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty for congenital pulmonary valve stenosis was performed in 98 patients (50 males, 48 females, ...