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Filter by:Aim of this study is to evaluate image quality and reproducibility of Xenon-129 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and to evaluate changes in lung structure and function in participants with cystic fibrosis (CF) and asthma compared to healthy controls using Xenon-129 MRI.
The Lung Clearance Index, measured by multiple breath washout, is a measure of lung function that is considered a research tool in Canada as the device used to measure it is not approved by Health Canada. The study will assess lung function in patients undergoing routine lung function testing for clinical indications (Cystic Fibrosis and Other Respiratory Diseases). In addition, healthy controls of different ages will be asked to perform this lung function test to gain reference data that can be used to interpret LCI in patients with lung disease.
Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ART) are increasingly being used worldwide as a result of fertility decline likely caused by changes in both environment and social behaviour. Considering this large usage, it is important to evaluate the potential risk on the health of children conceived using ART. According to the literature, children born after ART are more likely to be at higher risk of health problems than spontaneously conceived ones. Interestingly, recent studies suggested an increase of asthma prevalence in children conceived using In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). The purpose of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of asthma in school adolescents from a cohort of children born after In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), aged 11-15 years as compared to a control group composed of the same age range spontaneously conceived individuals. The expected outcome of this study will provide new information regarding these children to ART professionals of and to their own families, by focusing on an age range (between 11 and 15 years) for which very little information is available to date.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of nebulized magnesium sulfate in patient with moderate to severe asthma exacerbation in pediatric emergency
Bronchial asthma is a common chronic respiratory disease. Patients usually manifest variable symptoms (such as short of breath, chest tightness, cough, etc.) and variable airflow limitation and often associated with airway hyper-responsiveness and airway inflammation. About 1-18% of the global population suffered from the disease, causing huge economic burden for patients and countries. Airway reactivity measurement is an important way of diagnosis of asthma. Methacholine (Mch) bronchial provocation test(BPT) is the "gold standard" for the determination of airway reactivity, and other measuring methods(like adenosine monophosphate(AMP)-BPT, leukotriene D4(LTD4)-BPT, Astograph-BPT, etc.) were also brought into hot research fields. The investigators' purposes were to compare different kinds of methodologies(Mch,AMP,LTD4-BPT, Astograph-BPT) assessing airway responsiveness and to investigate treatment efficacy of budesonide /formoterol in asthmatics.
This study aims to identify and validate the gene expression differentials of peripheral blood mononuclear cells and differential inflammation profiles and other aspects in classic asthma, cough-variant asthma and eosinophilic bronchitis.
This is a Long-term Access Programme (LAP) which aims to support provision of mepolizumab, until it is commercially available, to eligible subjects with severe asthma who participated in a GSK-sponsored mepolizumab clinical study 200862 and 200363. Eligible subjects will initiate mepolizumab within a 6-month period following the individual subject's last scheduled visit in their preceding clinical study. For each subject benefit versus risk will be assessed throughout the study to support continued treatment with mepolizumab.
This is a multicenter, prospective observational cohort study, in which patients with chronic airway diseases including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD), asthma, asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS) will be recruited.
Despite its common occurrence, still little is known about pathomechanisms determining different wheeze and asthma trajectories and phenotypes in children, and those beginning in adulthood. Therefore, deciphering underlying determinants for different childhood and adult asthma phenotypes is urgently needed to develop personalized treatment approaches targeting distinct underlying mechanisms. Thereby, secondary prevention early in the disease process can also be achieved. The decoding of such mechanisms and their translation to the individual patient is the aim of the Disease Area Asthma Allergy of the 'German Centre for Lung Research' (DZL).
The treatment of asthma is based in clinical control. However, previous studies have been shown that patients that participate of the programs of regular or aerobic continuous exercise training (CT) presented improvements in the physical conditioning, and quality life, as well as decreased the levels of anxiety and depression, reduced the oxide nitric exhaled and leukocyte migration at the airways and reduced the airway hyperresponsiveness. The regular exercise also is important part in the rehabilitation of other lung disease as well as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Additionally, others studies have been shown the effects of high intensity interval training (IT) in the pulmonary rehabilitation of COPD patients, that after performed IT presented reduction of dyspnea, and increase the physical capacity. In this sense, the impact of IT in the asthmatic patients at the present moment is poorly studied, and necessity of the more investigation to prove the efficiency of this training model for asthma patients.