Role of interleukin-4 receptor α polymorphism in patients with asthma and its correlation with asthma severity by Nidhi Girdhar, Karan Sharma, Satyajit Deshpande, Siddharth Sharma, Vishal Chopra, Anil Sontakke

“…Also, we found that females had higher odds (1.61-fold) of significant association with asthma (p=0.09; odds ratio=1.58). …”
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Clinical case of co-infection: Dengue fever and respiratory mycoplasmosis in a child by D.V. Preobrazhenskaia, E.V. Melekhina, Zh.B. Ponezheva

“…In the Russian Federation, there is a much smaller proportion of children among those infected due to the imported nature of the infection.We described a clinical case of imported dengue fever in an adolescent girl in Moscow after a 5-day vacation. …”
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Continuous Erector Spinae Plane Block for Analgesia after Thoracotomy for Lung Transplantation in an Anticoagulated Patient by Mark Mudarth, Veena Satyapriya, John Coffman, Peter DeSocio, Alec Lawrence, Shana Schwartz, Michael Kushelev

“…Lung transplant recipients are at particular high risk for postoperative respiratory failure as a result of poorly controlled pain, inadequate graft expansion, decreased cough, and reliance on systemic opioid therapy. Thoracic epidural and paravertebral blocks have been employed with the goal of improving postoperative pain control, improving pulmonary mechanics, and limiting the need for narcotic administration. …”
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Legionnaires' Disease with Facial Nerve Palsy by Shailesh R. Basani, Salwa Mohamed Ahmed, Eyassu Habte-Gabr

“…We report a patient with Legionella pneumonia associated with cerebellar dysfunction and unilateral facial nerve weakness. 51-year-old previously healthy male presented with shortness of breath, cough, slurred speech, and unsteadiness on feet associated with malaise, fevers and myalgias. …”
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Perception and Barriers to Indoor Air Quality and Perceived Impact on Respiratory Health: An Assessment in Rural Honduras by Audrey Le, Gonzalo Bearman, Kakotan Sanogo, Michael P. Stevens

“…Respiratory symptoms were frequently reported by survey respondents: 42% stated that smoke in their household caused them to have watery eyes, 42% reported household members with coughs within the past two weeks, and 25% stated that there were currently household members experiencing difficulty in breathing. …”
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Outbreak prediction of covid-19 in most susceptible countries by D. Yadav, H. Maheshwari, U. Chandra

“…COVID-19 is the β-Coronavirus family virus, effect on the lung of human and common symptoms are cough, fever, fatigue, respiratory problem, and cold. …”
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An Atypical Case of Rickettsial Spotted Fever Myocarditis Mimicking Weil’s Disease by N. D. B. Ehelepola, G. D. N. R. Kumara, S. A. C. S. Sapurugala, W. M. N. P. Buddhadasa, Wasantha P. Dissanayake

“…A 65-year-old previously healthy male presented to us on the fourth day of a febrile illness with headache, arthralgia, myalgia, nausea, cough, chest pain, sore throat, and passing of watery stools and dark urine with a history of exposure to leptospirosis during a dengue outbreak. …”
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Randomized Controlled Study Comparing Use of Propofol Plus Fentanyl versus Midazolam Plus Fentanyl as Sedation in Diagnostic Endoscopy in Patients with Advanced Liver Disease by Sameh Abdelkhalik Ahmed, Amal Selim, Nehad Hawash, Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, Mohamed Yousef, Abdelrahman Kobtan, Rehab Badawi, Sally Elnawasany, Reham Abdelkader Elkhouly, Amr Shaaban Hanafy, Fatma H. Rizk, Loai Mansour, Sherief Abd-Elsalam

“…There was no statistical significant difference between the studied groups regarding age, sex, weight, Child–Pugh classification score, type and duration of endoscopic intervention, time needed for complete recovery, or time needed for discharge. …”
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Fatal Hemoptysis due to Chronic Cavitary Pulmonary Aspergillosis Complicated by Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Tuberculosis by Ioannis Kokkonouzis, Ioannis Athanasopoulos, Nikolaos Doulgerakis, Grigorios Tsonis, Ioannis Lampaditis, Nikolaos Saridis, Vasilios Skoufaras

“…A 51-year-old man, with a history of severe COPD and bilateral pneumothorax, who was under treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis due to mycobacterium avium, was admitted due to high-grade fever, weight loss, cough, and production of purulent sputum, for almost one month without any special improvement despite adequate antibiotics treatment in outpatient setting. …”
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İsrail’in Batı Şeria’daki Yerleşimci Politikası ve ABD’nin Filistin Sorununa İlişkin Barış Girişimleri: İki Devletli Çözüm Hâlâ Mümkün Mü? by Özge ÖZKOÇ

“…Although it is emphasized that the Palestinian-Israeli question will be only solved with the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in all peace initiatives announced by George Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump under the name of Peace to Prosperity, the situation created by Israel in the West Bank indicates the impossibility of a two-state solution. …”
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Patterns and clinical presentation of Foreign Bodies in ENT among Sudanese Children in Khartoum state hospitals. by Rana Ahmed Abdelrahman Nasir, Sharfi Abdelgadir Omer Ahmed, Ibrahim Gaffar Ibrahim

“…F.Bs  nose constituted higher percentage in (28%) of cases, F.Bs  inhalations were presented in(24.7%), F.Bs  ear were presented in (24.7%) and F.Bs  ingestion were presented in (22.7%).Regarding the type of inhalations, peanut was presented in (56.8%) of cases and the commonest presenting symptoms was cough in (94%) of patients.                                                                                                                                                                    …”
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The Association between Birth Weight and Gestational Age and Asthma in 6-7- and 13-14-Year-Old Children by Zamani Raheleh, Alikhani Ahmad, Heydarzadeh Abtin, Zare Roghaye, Hashemain Sara, Rahimi Siavash

“…A lower risk of "asthma ever" was also found in 6-7-year-old children and 13-14-year-old girls who were born after 40 weeks. …”
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Untreated Active Tuberculosis in Pregnancy with Intraocular Dissemination: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Shadi Rezai, Stephen LoBue, Daniel Adams, Yewande Oladipo, Ramses Posso, Tiffany Mapp, Crystal Santiago, Manisha Jain, William D. Marino, Cassandra E. Henderson

“…We present a case report of a 26-year-old multiparous woman, G4P3003, at 38-week gestation with a history of positive PPD who emigrated from Ghana 6 years ago. …”
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Être internationaliste dans une société coloniale : le cas des grecs de gauche en Égypte (1914-1960) by Katérina Trimi-Kirou

“…Cet article étudie un échantillon particulier de la population qui résidait en Égypte et appartenait aux catégories suivantes : à la gauche, à la nation hellénique, à la population étrangère et privilégiée d’Égypte et, en règle générale, aux couches moyennes. L’identité politique, internationaliste de ces Égyptiotes (Grecs d’Égypte) de gauche, s’oppose idéologiquement, et dans une certaine mesure objectivement, à leur identité social-colonialiste, mais aussi à leur identité nationale, des identités acquises inconsciemment, non choisies mais très tôt assimilées et fortes. …”
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Deciphering the Immune Subtypes and Signature Genes: A Novel Approach Towards Diagnosing and Prognosticating Severe Asthma Through Interpretable Machine Learning by Yue Hu, Yating Lin, Bo Peng, Chunyan Xiang, Wei Tang

“…Characterized by chronic inflammation of the bronchial passages, its symptoms include cough, wheezing, dyspnea, and chest tightness. While many manage their symptoms through pharmaceutical interventions and self-care, a significant subset grapples with severe asthma, posing therapeutic challenges. …”
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Un monument musical à la mémoire des ancêtres esclaves : le maloya (île de la Réunion) by Benjamin Lagarde

“…Cet article entend montrer comment, au fil de l’histoire réunionnaise et à l’intérieur du champ musical insulaire, s’est autonomisé le maloya. Emanation des couches créoles défavorisées, ce genre musical lié au culte des ancêtres afro-malgaches est parvenu à occuper un espace unique quant aux questions de mémoire et de culture au sein d’une « réunionnité » qu’il influence aujourd’hui de manière inédite : « mis en l’air » conjointement à l’émergence d’un contre-pouvoir politique il a la particularité d’insister sur la permanence d’une situation sociale jugée inique dont les racines sont à trouver dans l’esclavage. …”
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A case report of confirmed difficult pulmonary tuberculosis based on the hybrid capture-based tNGS method by Weiqian Chen, Huimin Chen, Ze Liu, Xinle Chi, Yaomeng Chen, Huan Ye, Wenjie Huang, Chenlei Cao, Wei Weng

“…Case presentation A 29-year-old male presented with “fever accompanied by cough for more than 20 days.” …”
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Childhood Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Cross-Sectional Study of Practices among Paediatricians in Private Sector, Mumbai by Carolyn Kavita Tauro, Nilesh Chandrakant Gawde

“…In this cross-sectional study, 64 paediatricians from private sector filled self-administered questionnaires. Cough was reported as a symptom of childhood TB by 77.8% of respondents. 38.1% request sputum smear or culture for diagnosis and fewer (32.8%) use it for patients positive on chest radiographs and 32.8% induce sputum for those unable to produce it. …”
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Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life in Asthma by Elizabeth F Juniper

“…Both adults and children with asthma are distressed by symptoms, such as shortness of breath, cough and chest tightness, and they are limited in their day-to-day activities, such as sports, employment or school work and participation in activities with friends. …”
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GPU-Accelerated Parallel FDTD on Distributed Heterogeneous Platform by Ronglin Jiang, Shugang Jiang, Yu Zhang, Ying Xu, Lei Xu, Dandan Zhang

“…Since both Central Processing Unit (CPU) and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) resources are utilized, a faster execution speed can be reached compared to a traditional pure GPU code. In our experiments, 64 NVIDIA TESLA K20m GPUs and 64 INTEL XEON E5-2670 CPUs are used to carry out the pure CPU, pure GPU, and CPU + GPU tests. …”
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