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Query: UMLS:C0034067 (emphysema)
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Clinical comparison of SLX with other tumor-associated antigens such as CA19-9, CA125, and CEA, was made in benign respiratory diseases including diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB), bronchiectasis (BE), bronchial asthma (BA), and pulmonary emphysema (PE). Sensitivities of each marker (greater than 38.0 U/ml) on DPB were 79.4% in SLX, 68.0% in CA19-1, 46.7% in CA125, and 35.7% in CEA. Serum levels of SLX in DPB and BE were significantly higher than those in BA and PE. There seemed to be no relationship between serum levels of SLX and CRP, ESR, and the volume of sputum. Immunohistochemical studies showed positive staining on the surface of respiratory bronchioles and alveolar walls in DPB and these findings were not observed in normal lung tissues. We consider that the high value of serum levels of SLX in DPB can be explained by these findings.
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PMID:[Clinical evaluation of serum sialyl Lewis X-i (SLX) in diffuse panbronchiolitis]. 257 80

Rats were exposed to repeated, intermittent exposure to smoke generated from combustion of 1g wood/15 min, total period for 75 min daily under dynamic exposure conditions, over a period of 15, 30 and 45 days. First 15 days exposure caused mild bronchiolitis, hyperplasia and hypertrophy of bronchiolar epithelial lining cells, some necrosed lining cells desquamated into lumens, congestion of parenchymatous blood vessels, oedema, hyperplasia of lymphoid follicles, peribronchiolar and perivascular infiltration of polymorphonuclear cells, and mild emphysema. These lesions progressed further during 30 and 45 days of exposure, though emphysematous changes remain constant. By 30 days and 45 days, hyperplastic and hypertrophic changes of bronchioles become quite marked, with mononuclear cells infiltration and alveolar septa thickening. Hematological studies show marginal alterations in hemoglobin levels, ESR, PCV and TLCS during 15 days, where as significant changes in eosinophil were observed during 30 and 45 days, and ESR during 45 days only. The results indicate progressive pathomorphological pulmonary lesions with subsequent exposure to wood smoke in controlled conditions.
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PMID:Histomorphological changes in lung of rats following exposure to wood smoke. 827 45

Increasing evidence demonstrates that emphysema in coal workers may be related to their exposure to coal dusts. The hypothesis that emphysema could be related to the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated by inhaled coal dusts was examined in the present study. Using ESR, we investigated whether the interaction of different coals with dissolved oxygen in aqueous medium could generate ROS. Indeed, we found that one of the five examined French coal samples, Vouters coal, was effective in oxidizing formate anions or ethanol by a radical pathway. Inactivation of alpha 1-antitrypsin (alpha 1-AT) in vitro was then examined for all five coal filtrates. The Vouters coal filtrate, which exhibits oxidative activity, can also inactivate alpha 1-AT. When this coal filtrate was crystallized and redissolved, its oxidative activity was found to be conserved. By use of various analytical techniques, the active component of this coal filtrate was identified to be primarily ferrous sulfate. We confirmed that pure ferrous sulfate can effectively reduce oxygen to produce ROS in aqueous medium in vitro and can also inactivate alpha 1-AT. In this report, the nature of the coal-generated oxidative species, the origin of ferrous sulfate, and the stability of ferrous sulfate in the different coal samples are discussed. These results offer evidence that some inhaled coal dusts are capable of producing ROS, which may play an important role in the development of coal workers' emphysema.
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PMID:Inactivation of alpha 1-antitrypsin by aqueous coal solutions: possible relation to the emphysema of coal workers. 837 42

62-year-old woman admitted our hospital with pain of left upper extremity from the left chest and dysphasia. Chest X-ray showed the huge mass shadow in the left lung field. Diabetes mellitus and inflammatory reaction such as high fervor, leukocytosis, CRP and ESR accentuation were recognized. Conservative therapy was done at first, but mass shadow on X-ray increased, and swelling appeared from the neck to the left lateral chest wall. And the same site appeared like subcutaneous emphysema. Computed Tomography showed mass shadow which was enlarged and spread in lung parenchyma and left chest wall with bubble image. Incision and open drainage was performed for the left chest wall but origin bacteria was detected in neither anaerobic nor aerobic culture of pus. Inflammation and mass shadow of left upper lung field have decreased gradually. The patient discharged without bronchoalveolar fistula. Abscess extending from the neck or chest wall with diabetes mellitus is very rare.
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PMID:[A case of huge abscess extended from anterior neck to left lung and lateral chest wall]. 938 56

A 65-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because multiple small nodular shadows measuring five to 12 mm in diameter in both lung fields were noticed on chest radiographs and CT scans during a regular checkup for pulmonary emphysema. The levels of ESR and CRP were within normal limits, but those of CEA and CYFRA were slightly elevated. Mycobacterium avium (M. avium) was detected in sputum cultures and in a sputum examination using PCR. Non-necrotizing granulomas were detected in the specimens obtained from a lesion of the right S6b by CT-guided transbronchial biopsy using an ultrathin bronchoscope after navigation with virtual bronchoscopy. On the basis of these findings, M. avium pulmonary disease was diagnosed. The patient is being followed up, but because he has no symptoms, without medication. To our knowledge, there have been no previous reports of M. avium-intracellulare complex pulmonary disease, which is characterized by multiple small nodular shadows. It is speculated that multiple centrilobular lesions developed simultaneously without extension to the bronchial walls, leading in this case to multiple small nodules in both lung fields.
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PMID:[A case of Mycobacterium avium pulmonary disease detected as multiple small nodular shadows and diagnosed by CT guided transbronchial biopsy with ultrathin bronchoscopy]. 1272 29