Cost effectiveness of a novel swallowing and respiratory sensation assessment and a modelled intervention to reduce acute exacerbations of COPD by Isabella Epiu, Christine R. Jenkins, Norma B. Bulamu, Andreas Kuznik

“…From the Australia health system perspective, we assessed the cost effectiveness of four tests relative to standard of care, or no testing, over a time horizon of one year. …”
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Designing a fuzzy system for lung disease diagnosis based on spirometry by firuze ebrahimpoor, vali derhami, mehrdad mostaghaci, mohammad javad zare, Raziyeh Soltani Gerdefaramarzi

“…Result: Among the used classification methods, the fuzzy method was achieved acceptable results because of the samples awarded degree in each cluster.According to the developed model in this study for predicting obstructive and restrictive pulmonary syndrome based on the analyzed test samples related to information of workers in 1394, the achieved accuracy was 0.71and 0.79, respectively. …”
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Questionnaires by Nick R Anthonisen

“…They then administered them to two groups of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. One group had stable COPD and was tested twice with a two-week period between tests to examine test-retest reproducibility. …”
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Comparison of treatments for equine laryngeal hemiplegia using computational fluid dynamic analysis in an equine head model by Michelle L. Tucker, David G. Wilson, Donald J. Bergstrom, James L. Carmalt

“…IntroductionComputational fluid dynamics (CFD) is gaining momentum as a useful mechanism for analyzing obstructive disorders and surgeries in humans and warrants further development for application in equine surgery. …”
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A Spy took a bite to get the diagnosis right: the benefit of SpyGlass technology in the diagnosis of autoimmune pancreatitis evading traditional diagnostic methods by Dianne Grunes, Adam Matthew Parker, David Schaefer, Amor Royer, Hardik Sonani, Sarah Camille Glover

“…Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is a rare form of chronic pancreatitis that is often overlooked and is usually characterised clinically by frequent presentations with obstructive jaundice. Serum IgG4 testing as a means to ‘rule out’ IgG4-related disease may not be as helpful as initially thought and may lead to a missed diagnosis if suspicion is low. …”
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CFTR Gene Mutations and their Role in Male Infertility: A Case Study by Namrata Anjankar, Akash More, Ashish P. Anjankar, Sanket S. Mahajan, Neha Nawale

“…The presented case concerns a 32-year-old man who has azoospermia but does not display cystic fibrosis symptoms. Testing showed the presence of the F508del CFTR mutation, which resulted in identifying obstructive azoospermia with congenital absence of the vas deferens (CAVD). …”
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Spirometry in Primary Care by Allan L Coates, Brian L Graham, Robin G McFadden, Colm McParland, Dilshad Moosa, Steeve Provencher, Jeremy Road

“…Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS) clinical guidelines for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) specify that spirometry should be used to diagnose these diseases. …”
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Estimation of Static Lung Volumes and Capacities From Spirometry Using Machine Learning: Algorithm Development and Validation by Scott A Helgeson, Zachary S Quicksall, Patrick W Johnson, Kaiser G Lim, Rickey E Carter, Augustine S Lee

“…Although basic spirometry is used for diagnosis of obstructive lung disease, clinically relevant information such as restriction, hyperinflation, and air trapping require additional testing, such as body plethysmography, which is not as readily available. …”
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Oscillometry Assesses Small Airway Disease and Reveals Peripheral Lung Pathology in Early Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Cross-Sectional Study by Athena Gogali, Georgia Gkrepi, Christos Kyriakopoulos, Konstantinos Tatsis, Konstantinos Katsoulis, Chara Tselepi, Konstantinos Kostikas

“…In this study, we investigated the role of oscillometry in patients with mild pulmonary fibrosis without evident obstructive disorder, focusing on small airways. <b>Methods:</b> Oscillometry and pulmonary function test (PFT) data of consecutive patients newly diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis of unknown etiology in a university hospital ILD clinic were collected and analyzed. …”
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Knowledge Brokering: An Innovative Model for Supporting Evidence-Informed Practice in Respiratory Care by Alison M Hoens, W Darlene Reid, Pat G Camp

“…Working closely with both researchers and clinicians, the KB has led teams in the process of conceptualizing, developing, testing, disseminating and evaluating several projects related to respiratory care, including projects related to mobility in critical care settings and acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; inspiratory muscle training; and the use of incentive spirometry in postsurgical populations. …”
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ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Normal Coronary Arteries after Consuming Energy Drinks by S. Michael Gharacholou, Nkechinyere Ijioma, Emma Banwart, Freddy Del Carpio Munoz

“…Angiography revealed no obstructive coronary disease. The patient had elevation of cardiac troponin. …”
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Soft Palate Modification Using a Collagen Crosslinking Reagent for Equine Dorsal Displacement of the Soft Palate and Other Upper Airway Breathing Disorders by Stephanie Hunt, Jonathan Kuo, Fabio A. Aristizabal, Matt Brown, Abhijit Patwardhan, Thomas Hedman

“…The wind tunnel testing demonstrated a greater than 50% decrease in transient deformation and a greater than 33% decrease in steady-state vibrations for all doses of genipin tested. …”
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Real-time airway monitoring system using binary classification model based on respiratory sounds of rabbits with a tracheostomy tube by Yohan Jung, Hyunbum Kim, Daeyeon Koh, Hyunjun Han, Minhyeong Kim, Young-Hoon Joo, Jongbaeg Kim

“…The trained convolutional neural network (CNN) binary classification model, evaluated on the validation dataset, achieved an accuracy of 0.9375 and an area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve of 0.9900 in classifying normal and obstructive respiratory sound samples. Furthermore, in testing experiments simulating a medical scenario, the developed Internet-of-Things-based device enabled real-time remote data transmission. …”
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Lung Flare Care: Development of a web resource to improve recovery after COPD exacerbations: A mixed methods study. by Alethea Kavanagh, Ruben Hopmans, Carla Gordon, Georgia Roberts, Lauren Palmer, Chooi-Ee Lai, Amy Catlin, Rachel Smith, Marielle Collings, Jessica DeGaris, Christian Osadnik

“…Recovery from acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) is often sub-optimal. …”
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Papillary Tumor of the Pineal Region Identified by DNA Methylation Leads to the Incidental Finding of Germline Mutation <i>PTEN G132D</i> Associated with PTEN Hamartoma Tumor Syndr... by Nikole O’Neal, Eric Goold, Fatemeh Zarei Haji Abadi, Jeffrey Okojie, Jared Barrott

“…Our review revealed inconsistencies in diagnostics, treatments, and outcomes for PTPR, and an underutilization of definitive molecular testing.…”
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Leveraging pleiotropy to discover and interpret GWAS results for sleep-associated traits. by Sung Chun, Sebastian Akle, Athanasios Teodosiadis, Brian E Cade, Heming Wang, Tamar Sofer, Daniel S Evans, Katie L Stone, Sina A Gharib, Sutapa Mukherjee, Lyle J Palmer, David Hillman, Jerome I Rotter, Craig L Hanis, John A Stamatoyannopoulos, Susan Redline, Chris Cotsapas, Shamil R Sunyaev

“…Here, as an exemplar, we use Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), a common disorder diagnosed using overnight multi-channel physiological testing. …”
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Nomogram establishment for short-term survival prediction in ICU patients with aplastic anemia based on the MIMIC-IV database by Yan Tu, Jingcheng Zhang, Mingzhe Zhao, Fang He

“…The C-indexes in the training set and testing set were 0.642 and 0.643 respectively, indicating certain accuracy of the model. …”
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Automated mechanical ventilator design and analysis using neural network by S. Hariharan, Hemalatha Karnan, D. Uma Maheswari

“…The performance metrics of FFNN during the training and testing phases substantiate the optimal performance of the ventilator. …”
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A Case of Erythrocytosis in a Patient Treated with an Aromatase Inhibitor for Breast Cancer by Abhinav Iyengar, Dawn Sheppard

“…Serum erythropoietin (EPO) level was normal, and molecular testing for the JAK2 V617F and exon 12 mutations was negative. …”
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Can We Reduce the Diagnostic Burden of Sleep Disorders? A Single-Centre Study of Subjective and Objective Sleep-Related Diagnostic Parameters by Tadas Vanagas, Domantė Lipskytė, Jovita Tamošiūnaitė, Kęstutis Petrikonis, Evelina Pajėdienė

“…<i>Materials and Methods:</i> In this study, we retrospectively analysed the data from 562 patients who underwent clinical evaluation and PSG testing at the Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas Clinics between 2018 and 2024. …”
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