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| Alev GurgunSummaryAffiliation: Ege University Country: Turkey Publications
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Effects of nutritional supplementation combined with conventional pulmonary rehabilitation in muscle-wasted chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a prospective, randomized and controlled studyAlev Gurgun
Department of Chest Diseases, Ege University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey
Respirology 18:495-500. 2013....
[Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cardiovascular system]Alev Gurgun
Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
Tuberk Toraks 56:464-71. 2008..The anti-inflammatory effects of inhaled corticosteroids and statins, their effects on cardiovascular endpoints, all-cause mortality, and survival of COPD patients are reviewed as a new perspective to the treatment...- [Comparison of the patients with pandemic (H1N1) influenza A virus pneumonia and community-acquired pneumonia]Alev Gurgun
Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
Tuberk Toraks 58:357-65. 2010..Admission to the intensive care unit and mechanical ventilation should be considered in patients with dyspnea and diffuse radiological findings... - [The comparison of patients with hospitalized health-care-associated pneumonia to community-acquired pneumonia]Mehmet Sezai Taşbakan
Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
Tuberk Toraks 59:348-54. 2011..Potentially drug-resistant microorganisms should be taken into consideration in the empirical antibiotic treatment of these patients... - [Tuberculin skin test reactivity in patients with chronic renal failure]Oznur Aydoğan
Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
Tuberk Toraks 57:268-76. 2009..02) and in PD group the tuberculin reactivity was not affected by any of the patient-related parameters. It must be considered that the response to TST is low in young patients with uncontrolled CRF and under immunosuppressive therapy... - Comparison of bronchoalveolar lavage and mini-bronchoalveolar lavage in the diagnosis of pneumonia in immunocompromised patientsM Sezai Tasbakan
Department of Chest Diseases, Ege University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey
Respiration 81:229-35. 2011..Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is commonly used to help diagnose and characterize pneumonia in these patients. Mini-BAL is a less-invasive, less-costly and less-cumbersome diagnostic tool than BAL... - Can impairments of thyroid function test affect prognosis in patients with respiratory failure?Feza Bacakoglu
Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
Tuberk Toraks 55:329-35. 2007..We conclude that TFT impairments are not observed more frequently in patients with RF when compared to the patients without RF. However, low FT3 and FT4 levels increase the rates of invasive mechanical ventilation and mortality... - Hypereosinophilic syndrome presenting with large left ventricular apical thrombus and pulmonary embolismAlev Gurgun
Department of Chest Diseases, Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey
Echocardiography 28:E180-2. 2011..Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging showed left ventricular apical thrombus without subendocardial fibrosis. Cardiopulmonary manifestations of hypereosinophilic syndrome completely resolved after treatment...