- ►chestpubs.org D Stolz, M Christ-Crain, R Bingisser, J Leuppi … - Chest, 2007 - chestjournal.chestpubs.org Methods: A total of 208 consecutive patients requiring hospitalization for COPD
exacerbation were randomized at the index exacerbation to procalcitonin-guided
or standard antibiotic therapy. Patients receiving procalcitonin-guided ... Cited by 154 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
A Anzueto, S Sethi, FJ Martinez - Proceedings of the American Thoraic Society, 2007 - Am Thoracic Soc The diagnosis and treatment of acute exacerbations (AEs) of chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD) is controversial. In this section, we review (1) the
epidemiology of this condition; (2) the etiology—many patients with ... Cited by 27 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►chestpubs.org BS Quon, WQ Gan, DD Sin - Chest, 2008 - chestjournal.chestpubs.org Results: Compared with placebo, systemic corticosteroids reduced treatment
failure by 46% (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.41 to 0.71), length of hospital
stay by 1.4 days (95% CI, 0.7 to 2.2), and improved FEV 1 by 0.13 L after 3 ... Cited by 29 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
- ►chestpubs.org D Stolz, M Christ-Crain, NG Morgenthaler, D … - Chest, 2008 - chestjournal.chestpubs.org Results: Compared to recovery and stable state, CT-proET-1 and MR-proADM were
significantly increased on hospital admission (p < 0.001 and p = 0.002,
respectively). MR-proADM, but not CT-proET-1, was associated with increased ... Cited by 10 - Related articles - All 6 versions
- ►nih.gov MJ Joo, TA Lee, KB Weiss - Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2007 - Springer Min J. Joo, MD, MPH 1,2,4 , Todd A. Lee, PharmD, PhD 1,2,3 , and Kevin B. Weiss,
MD, MPH 1,2,3 ... 1 Center for Management of Complex Chronic Care, Hines VA
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TM File, Jr, PA Gross - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2007 - UChicago Press Featured in Reuters-USE_THIS "Dual HIV/TB infection common in S. African
infants" December 29, 2008 # High Incidence of Tuberculosis among HIV-Infected
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- ►ascopubs.org [PDF] SJ Lee, S Joffe, AS Artz, RE Champlin, SM … - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2008 - jco.ascopubs.org Purpose Previous studies have evaluated practice variation in hematopoietic cell
transplantation (HCT) among transplant centers and countries. There are no
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CL Tsai, JA Sobrino, JCA Camargo - Academic emergency medicine: official journal of the …, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Abstract Objectives: Little is known about recent trends in US emergency
department (ED) visits for acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary
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S Simoens, M Decramer, S De Coster, G … - International Journal of Clinical Practice, 2007 - lirias.kuleuven.be Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a disease typified by chronic
airflow limitation which is not fully reversible. The airflow limitation tends
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