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Expression of the anaphylatoxin receptors C3aR and C5aR is increased in fatal asthmaLaura Fregonese
Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Albinusdreef 2, 2233 ZA Leiden, The Netherlands
J Allergy Clin Immunol 115:1148-54. 2005..Recent studies suggest the involvement of the anaphylatoxins C3a and C5a, generated during complement activation, and their receptors C3aR and C5aR in the pathogenesis of asthma...
Ventilation inhomogeneity in alpha1-antitrypsin-deficient emphysemaL Fregonese
Lung Function Laboratory, Dept of Pulmonology C3 P, Leiden University Medical Centre, P O Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
Eur Respir J 28:323-9. 2006..Determination of the sensitivity of the single-breath nitrogen wash-out test slope in detecting disease progression may give complementary information to spirometry...
Alpha-1 antitrypsin Null mutations and severity of emphysemaLaura Fregonese
Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
Respir Med 102:876-84. 2008..Mutations causing total absence of serum AAT (Null mutations) were suggested to be associated with very early onset emphysema but their clinical phenotype is poorly known...
Hereditary alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency and its clinical consequencesLaura Fregonese
Alpha1 International Registry, c o Department of Pulmology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Orphanet J Rare Dis 3:16. 2008..The end-stage liver and lung disease can be treated by organ transplantation. In AATD patients with cirrhosis, prognosis is generally grave...
Steroid-naive adolescents with mild intermittent allergic asthma have airway hyperresponsiveness and elevated exhaled nitric oxide levelsDaniela Spallarossa
Pulmonary Division, G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy
J Asthma 40:301-10. 2003....
Proteomic analysis of exhaled breath condensate from single patients with pulmonary emphysema associated to alpha1-antitrypsin deficiencyMarco Fumagalli
Dipartimento di Biochimica A Castellani, Universita di Pavia, Italy
J Proteomics 71:211-21. 2008..These sensitive techniques allowed to identify a number of cytokines and cytokeratins. Their level was found to be higher in patients than in controls...
Clinical, physiologic, and roentgenographic changes after pneumonectomy in a boy with Macleod/Swyer-James syndrome and bronchiectasisLaura Fregonese
Pulmonology Division, G Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy
Pediatr Pulmonol 34:412-6. 2002..Despite the severe impairment of pulmonary function, the patient underwent resection of the right lung with progressive improvement of clinical and physiologic parameters...
Correlations between exhaled nitric oxide levels, blood eosinophilia, and airway obstruction reversibility in childhood asthma are detectable only in atopic individualsMichela Silvestri
Pulmonary Division, G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy
Pediatr Pulmonol 35:358-63. 2003..04). Within the atopic group, no differences were found between mono- and polysensitized individuals in all parameters evaluated. Thus only in atopic children did parameters of inflammation correlate with airway obstruction reversibility...
