Conference Highlights: ACAAI 2020
New research was presented at ACAAI 2020, the virtual American College of Allergy, Asthma &...
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Allergy & Immunology General
Mobile chest X-ray manifestations of 54 deceased patients with coronavirus disease 2019: Retrospective study.
To describe the mobile chest X-ray manifestations of deceased patients with coronavirus disease...
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Risk factors for aspiration pneumonia in patients with dysphagia undergoing videofluoroscopic swallowing studies: A retrospective cohort study.
Prediction of aspiration pneumonia development in at-risk patients is vital for implementation of...
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Risk of Prostate Cancer Incidence among Atomic Bomb Survivors: 1958-2009.
Epidemiological evidence for a radiation effect on prostate cancer risk has been inconsistent and...
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Association Study of FOXO3a Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism and Bronchial Asthma in Egyptian Children.
Asthma is the most common chronic illness in children and is a leading cause of childhood...
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PKCε stimulation of TRPV1 orchestrates carotid body responses to asthmakines.
We have previously shown that carotid body stimulation by lysophosphatidic acid elicits a reflex...
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Diabetes Mellitus is Associated with Worse Outcome in Patients Hospitalized for Asthma.
Asthma is a prevalent disease with high economic cost. Over 50% of its direct cost relates to...
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Galectin-1 expression in CD8 T lymphocytes controls inflammation in contact hypersensitivity.
Allergic contact dermatitis, also known as contact hypersensitivity, is a frequent T-cell mediated...
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Scalp Micropigmentation Procedure: A Useful Procedure for Hair Restoration.
Medical tattooing of the skin to camouflage scars or to mimic hair or nipple/areola regions has...
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Hirayama Disease Presenting as 4-Limb Paresthesia.
Hirayama disease is a rare clinical entity that presents typically as a unilateral, slowly...
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Use of Honey Versus Standard Care for Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injury in Critically Ill Children: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial.
To examine if the use of honey (medicated) for dressing is superior to standard care in terms of...
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Multisystem inflammatory syndrome with refractory cardiogenic shock due to acute myocarditis and mononeuritis multiplex after SARS-CoV-2 infection in an adult.
A 22-year-old male with a typical history of pauci-symptomatic COVID-19 3 weeks earlier, confirmed...
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Randomized controlled trial of community-based, post-rehabilitation exercise in COPD.
Although pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) improves function in people with chronic obstructive...
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Tobacco exposure and immunotherapy response in PD-L1 positive lung cancer patients.
Tobacco exposure contributes to over 80 % of lung cancer cases. Smoking is associated with...
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Weight reduction improves immune system and inflammatory cytokines in obese asthmatic patients.
Activation of immunological and systemic inflammation markers are common in obesity and asthma.The...
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Intranasal GSK2245035, a Toll-like receptor 7 agonist, does not attenuate the allergen-induced asthmatic response in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled experimental medicine study.
Allergic asthma is a heterogenous disorder predominantly driven by a type 2 inflammatory response...
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Assessment of bronchial obstruction and its reversibility by shape indexes of the flow-volume loop in asthmatic children.
Asthma assessment by spirometry is challenging in children as forced expiratory volume in one...
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Sinonasal Outcome Scores and Imaging: A Concurrent Assessment of Factors Influencing Their Association.
The overall discriminatory ability of validated instrument scores for computed tomography (CT)...
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Exploration of plasma interleukin-27 levels in asthma patients and the correlation with lung function.
IL-27 attenuates allergic inflammation and improves lung function in mouse models of allergic...
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Heparin for preventing adverse obstetrical outcomes in pregnant women with antiphospholipid syndrome, a systematic review and meta-analysis.
We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the efficacy and safety of heparin...
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