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In a 4-week crossover study in 38 patients with COPD, roflumilast 500μg daily significantly reduced sputum absolute neutrophil count, IL-8 and neutrophil elastase compared with placebo treatment. Interestingly, the mechanism of anti-neutrophilic inflammation with roflumilast treatment in patients
INTRODUCTION & STATE-OF-ART Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is the most common autosomal recessive lethal disorders affecting 1 in 2.500 newborns among Caucasians. CF lung disease reflects a failure in the capacity of airway epithelia to normally hydrate their surface. Poor hydration of airways surfaces leads
Long Chain-Polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA) are needed to support normal physiological functions: Unlike saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids, synthesis of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 20:5 omega-3) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22:6 omega-3) from its omega-3 PUFA precursor,
Currently approximately 240 million surgical procedures are done worldwide on a yearly basis. lnguinal hernia repair is one of the most performed surgeries in ambulatory setting. Despite currently available analgesic drugs, post surgical pain management remains challenging in this group of patients,
The investigators propose a pilot study to evaluate the validity and the acceptability of a home-based OGTT by comparing, in patients with CF:
- Standard hospital-based OGTT with measures of plasma glucose and the use of 75g glucose beverage;
- Home-based OGTT with measures of glucose using a
1. To assess the number of episodes of emesis following both short and prolonged intermittent infusion of meropenem.
2. To assess the number of episodes of emesis corresponding to the peak serum concentration of meropenem.
3. To assess the number of episodes of emesis corresponding to the area under
Material abuse nowadays become a serious public health issue, among these, abusing of opioids is the most serious one. It cause HIV infection rate hiking up, recent years in Taiwan, it impairing people health as well. The successive 2 year methadone substitutive abstaining program makes HIV
This is a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind withdrawal, multicenter study to evaluate the effectiveness of pancrelipase MT capsules compared with placebo in the treatment of adult (>18 to 60 years of age) and children/adolescent (7 to <18 years of age) patients with CF and who require
The study is a comparison of the use of intravenous antibiotics before and after the implementation of switch criteria. Switch is defined as a change in administration route from intravenous to oral.
Patients administered to medical department at Sorlandet hospital in Kristiansand and Arendal are