322 Preoperative Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) in Severe Asthma Patients Ekaterini Syrigou, Anastasios Kallianos, Sotirios Tsimpoukis, Nektaria Makrilia, Ioannis Dannos, Fotis Psarros, and Kostas N. Syrigos. Department of Allergy, and; Oncology Unit, 3rd Department of Medicine, Sotiria General Hospital, Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece. Background: Lung resection is still the...

322 Preoperative Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) in Severe Asthma Patients Ekaterini Syrigou, Anastasios Kallianos, Sotirios Tsimpoukis, Nektaria Makrilia, Ioannis Dannos, Fotis Psarros, and Kostas N. Syrigos. Department of Allergy, and; Oncology Unit, 3rd Department of Medicine, Sotiria General Hospital, Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece. Background: Lung resection is still the...

322 Preoperative Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) in Severe Asthma Patients Ekaterini Syrigou, Anastasios Kallianos, Sotirios Tsimpoukis, Nektaria Makrilia, Ioannis Dannos, Fotis Psarros, and Kostas N. Syrigos. Department of Allergy, and; Oncology Unit, 3rd Department of Medicine, Sotiria General Hospital, Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece. Background: Lung resection is still the...

322 Preoperative Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) in Severe Asthma Patients Ekaterini Syrigou, Anastasios Kallianos, Sotirios Tsimpoukis, Nektaria Makrilia, Ioannis Dannos, Fotis Psarros, and Kostas N. Syrigos. Department of Allergy, and; Oncology Unit, 3rd Department of Medicine, Sotiria General Hospital, Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece. Background: Lung resection is still the...

Tuberculous destroyed lung (TDL) is diagnosed by a clear past history of tuberculosis with findings of parenchymal destruction verified by chest X-ray. Despite the resultant deterioration of lung function and quality of lives seen in TDL patients, the exact mechanism or characteristics of pulmonary function worsening have not been clearly studied. We investigated the feature of respiratory impa...

Chronic exposure to particulate air pollution is associated with lung function impairment. To determine the molecular mechanism(s) of this phenomenon, we investigated, in an alveolar human epithelial cell line (A549), whether diesel exhaust particles (DEPs), a main component of particulate air pollution, modulates the expression and activity of the matrix metalloprotease (MMP)-1, a collagenase ...

Myasthenic gravis may affect both inspiratory and expiratory muscles. Respiratory involvement occurred in almost all patients with myasthenia gravis in all clinical forms of the disease: 332 lung function tests done in 324 myasthenic patients without respiratory symptoms (age 34.6 +/- 18.3 years) were examined. Lung volumes analysis showed that all the patients of both sexes with generalized or...

SUMMARY: Exposure to cement dust has been linked to lung function impairment. However, there are few such studies in Nigeria. The main aim of this study was to assess the post-work Peak Expiratory Flow Rate (PEFR) of workers in a cement company. Sixty workers in a cement factory were randomly selected; thirty were regarded as workers exposed to cement dust and the remaining as unexposed workers...

   Cromolyn sodium, a mast cell stabilizing agent, provides an immediate protective effect against the exercise-induced bronchoconstriction while being used before the exercise. However, cromolyn is ineffective in reversing asthmatic bronchospasm; it is used as a maintenance therapy and has a prophylactic role in chronic asthma.    The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of change...

OBJECTIVE To examine a nationally representative sample of US children aged 6 to 16 years old and determine whether there are differences in risk factors and measures of severity between children with different asthma phenotypes. METHODS We analyzed data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. We used questionnaire and skin-prick testing data to separate children into...