BACKGROUND In Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, the area with the highest density of vineyards in the world, 2 cases of Vitis vinifera pollen allergy have been previously reported. OBJECTIVE To determine the clinical relevance and biochemical characteristics of vine pollen in the Spanish province of Ciudad Real. METHODS We designed a prospective study of patients treated in the allergy units from ...

Sixty-nine children with moderately severe perennial asthma were submitted to bronchial provocation tests using aqueous extracts of Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (house dust mite). 60 (87%) had immediate positive reactions. 73% also had late reactions occurring 4 to 8 hours after the challenge. A significant correlation was found between frequent attacks of asthma in the year before bronchial ...

The forced oscillation technique (FOT) allows easy assessment of bronchial reactivity. The use of a standard FOT generator (SG) results in changes in respiratory system resistance (delta Rrs,SG) which are affected by an artefact caused by the extrathoracic upper airway (EUA). The aim was to improve the FOT assessment of bronchial reactivity with the SG by computing the change in FOT admittance ...

Common lore has it that naturalness of electroweak breaking in the SM requires new physics (NP) at Λ < ∼ 2− 3 TeV, hopefully within the reach of LHC. Moreover the Higgs should be light (m h < ∼ 219 GeV) to pass electroweak precision tests (EWPT). However one should be prepared for " unexpected " (although admittedly unpleasant) results at LHC, i.e. no NP and/or a heavy Higgs. We revisit recent ...

BACKGROUND There is no standardised protocol for the measurement of bronchial responsiveness. Results from different studies are difficult to compare and combine. METHODS Analyses are divided between those of a continuous outcome, which can be directly standardised as effect size, and those based on a binary outcome. A published method is used to convert an odds ratio to equivalent effect siz...

The aim of this study was to compare the feasibility of three techniques for measuring the response to bronchial challenge in young children: a direct airway measurement, the forced oscillation technique (FOT) for determining respiratory system resistance at 6 and 8 Hz (Rrs6 and Rrs8), and two indirect methods, the change in transcutaneous oxygen tension (PtcO2) and the detection of wheeze on a...

Hemoptysis is symptomatic of potentially serious and life-threatening chest disease and requires urgent evaluation and treatment. The aim of this study was to evaluate the hemostatic efficacy of endobronchial application of Ankaferd Blood Stopper(®) (ABS) solution in patients with hemoptysis. This retrospective study included 20 patients with hemoptysis in whom endobronchial ABS was applied in ...