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Frank C Sciurba

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1 The nature of small-airway obstruction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. N Engl J Med 2004 17.08
2 Azithromycin for prevention of exacerbations of COPD. N Engl J Med 2011 8.66
3 Lung volumes and emphysema in smokers with interstitial lung abnormalities. N Engl J Med 2011 4.75
4 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease phenotypes: the future of COPD. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2010 4.19
5 Association of radiographic emphysema and airflow obstruction with lung cancer. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2008 3.94
6 Simvastatin for the prevention of exacerbations in moderate-to-severe COPD. N Engl J Med 2014 3.51
7 Outcomes of noninvasive ventilation for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the United States, 1998-2008. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2011 3.33
8 Egr-1 regulates autophagy in cigarette smoke-induced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. PLoS One 2008 2.67
9 A combinatorial F box protein directed pathway controls TRAF adaptor stability to regulate inflammation. Nat Immunol 2013 2.60
10 Radiographic emphysema predicts low bone mineral density in a tobacco-exposed cohort. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2010 2.60
11 Long-term follow-up of patients receiving lung-volume-reduction surgery versus medical therapy for severe emphysema by the National Emphysema Treatment Trial Research Group. Ann Thorac Surg 2006 2.53
12 Comprehensive gene expression profiles reveal pathways related to the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004 2.42
13 Improvements in symptom-limited exercise performance over 8 h with once-daily tiotropium in patients with COPD. Chest 2005 2.15
14 The relationship between pulmonary emphysema and kidney function in smokers. Chest 2012 2.13
15 Automated lung segmentation in X-ray computed tomography: development and evaluation of a heuristic threshold-based scheme. Acad Radiol 2003 2.10
16 Association of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease severity and Pneumocystis colonization. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2004 2.05
17 Survival after lung volume reduction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: insights from small airway pathology. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2007 2.04
18 Genetic association analysis of functional impairment in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2006 1.98
19 Genetic determinants of emphysema distribution in the national emphysema treatment trial. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2007 1.94
20 Autoantibodies in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2007 1.94
21 Pulmonary function abnormalities in HIV-infected patients during the current antiretroviral therapy era. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2010 1.81
22 CT metrics of airway disease and emphysema in severe COPD. Chest 2009 1.81
23 Interstitial lung abnormalities and reduced exercise capacity. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2012 1.80
24 Patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis with antibodies to heat shock protein 70 have poor prognoses. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2013 1.77
25 Respiratory symptoms and airway obstruction in HIV-infected subjects in the HAART era. PLoS One 2009 1.71
26 Comorbidities, patient knowledge, and disease management in a national sample of patients with COPD. Am J Med 2009 1.70
27 The effect of lung volume reduction surgery on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2007 1.68
28 Physician and patient perceptions in COPD: the COPD Resource Network Needs Assessment Survey. Am J Med 2005 1.67
29 Identification of early interstitial lung disease in smokers from the COPDGene Study. Acad Radiol 2009 1.63
30 An Official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Statement: Research questions in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2015 1.63
31 Relationship of DNA methylation and gene expression in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2014 1.63
32 Continuous oxygen use in nonhypoxemic emphysema patients identifies a high-risk subset of patients: retrospective analysis of the National Emphysema Treatment Trial. Chest 2008 1.59
33 Quantitative computed tomography analysis, airflow obstruction, and lung cancer in the pittsburgh lung screening study. J Thorac Oncol 2011 1.57
34 Activity monitoring and energy expenditure in COPD patients: a validation study. COPD 2007 1.54
35 Cluster analysis in the COPDGene study identifies subtypes of smokers with distinct patterns of airway disease and emphysema. Thorax 2014 1.48
36 Feasibility of retinoids for the treatment of emphysema study. Chest 2006 1.45
37 Clinical significance of radiologic characterizations in COPD. COPD 2009 1.41
38 Computed tomographic-based quantification of emphysema and correlation to pulmonary function and mechanics. COPD 2008 1.38
39 Peripheral T cell functions correlate with the severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. J Immunol 2009 1.34
40 The influence of radiographic phenotype and smoking status on peripheral blood biomarker patterns in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. PLoS One 2009 1.28
41 Pneumocystis: a novel pathogen in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? COPD 2008 1.21
42 Airway obstruction is increased in pneumocystis-colonized human immunodeficiency virus-infected outpatients. J Clin Microbiol 2009 1.20
43 A Computational geometry approach to automated pulmonary fissure segmentation in CT examinations. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 2008 1.20
44 Persistent pneumocystis colonization leads to the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a nonhuman primate model of AIDS. J Infect Dis 2010 1.19
45 Cardiopulmonary function in individuals with HIV infection in the antiretroviral therapy era. AIDS 2012 1.18
46 Variability of spirometry in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: results from two clinical trials. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2006 1.14
47 Asthma diagnosis and airway bronchodilator response in HIV-infected patients. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2011 1.13
48 Optimal threshold in CT quantification of emphysema. Eur Radiol 2012 1.12
49 Anxiety is associated with diminished exercise performance and quality of life in severe emphysema: a cross-sectional study. Respir Res 2010 1.07
50 Missing value imputation in high-dimensional phenomic data: imputable or not, and how? BMC Bioinformatics 2014 1.06
51 A differential geometric approach to automated segmentation of human airway tree. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 2010 1.05
52 Plasma B lymphocyte stimulator and B cell differentiation in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients. J Immunol 2013 1.05
53 Physiological and computed tomographic predictors of outcome from lung volume reduction surgery. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2009 1.04
54 Inverse association of plasma IL-13 and inflammatory chemokines with lung function impairment in stable COPD: a cross-sectional cohort study. Respir Res 2007 1.03
55 C-X-C motif chemokine 13 (CXCL13) is a prognostic biomarker of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2014 1.03
56 The HLA class II Allele DRB1*1501 is over-represented in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. PLoS One 2011 1.02
57 Eosinophil and T cell markers predict functional decline in COPD patients. Respir Res 2009 1.00
58 Down-regulated peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) in lung epithelial cells promotes a PPARγ agonist-reversible proinflammatory phenotype in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). J Biol Chem 2013 1.00
59 Paired inspiratory-expiratory chest CT scans to assess for small airways disease in COPD. Respir Res 2013 1.00
60 Increased matrix metalloproteinase (MMPs) levels do not predict disease severity or progression in emphysema. PLoS One 2013 1.00
61 Automated detection and quantitative assessment of pulmonary airways depicted on CT images. Med Phys 2007 0.99
62 Relationship of pneumocystis antibody response to severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Clin Infect Dis 2008 0.97
63 Design of the Endobronchial Valve for Emphysema Palliation Trial (VENT): a non-surgical method of lung volume reduction. BMC Pulm Med 2007 0.96
64 Lung deflation and oxygen pulse in COPD: results from the NETT randomized trial. Respir Med 2011 0.96
65 Exercise testing in severe emphysema: association with quality of life and lung function. COPD 2008 0.96
66 Altered T-cell phenotypes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Proc Am Thorac Soc 2006 0.94
67 Assessment of lung volume collapsibility in chronic obstructive lung disease patients using CT. Eur Radiol 2013 0.94
68 Comprehensive clinical and molecular analysis of 12 families with type 1 recessive cutis laxa. Hum Mutat 2012 0.93
69 Non-emphysematous chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is associated with diabetes mellitus. BMC Pulm Med 2014 0.93
70 A new perspective on optimal care for patients with COPD. Prim Care Respir J 2011 0.92
71 Distribution of Pneumocystis jirovecii in lungs from colonized COPD patients. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2011 0.91
72 Exercise maintenance following pulmonary rehabilitation: effect of distractive stimuli. Chest 2002 0.90
73 Plasma inflammatory mediators associated with bone metabolism in COPD. COPD 2010 0.89
74 Perfusion scintigraphy and patient selection for lung volume reduction surgery. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2010 0.89
75 Integrating health status and survival data: the palliative effect of lung volume reduction surgery. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2009 0.88
76 Oxygen consumption, shuttle walking test and the evaluation of lung resection. Respiration 2009 0.87
77 Optimal protocol selection for cardiopulmonary exercise testing in severe COPD. Chest 2007 0.86
78 Long-term comparative immunogenicity of protein conjugate and free polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccines in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Clin Infect Dis 2012 0.86
79 Relationship between lung function impairment and health-related quality of life in COPD and interstitial lung disease. Chest 2012 0.86
80 Optimizing the 6-min walk test as a measure of exercise capacity in COPD. Chest 2012 0.86
81 Development and validation of the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Assessment Questionnaire (COPD-AQ). Prim Care Respir J 2009 0.86
82 Pneumocystis jirovecii colonization is associated with enhanced Th1 inflammatory gene expression in lungs of humans with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Microbiol Immunol 2014 0.85
83 Three-dimensional airway tree architecture and pulmonary function. Acad Radiol 2012 0.85
84 Contributors to diffusion impairment in HIV-infected persons. Eur Respir J 2013 0.85
85 Spontaneous bronchopleural fistula following lung volume reduction surgery for emphysema. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 2009 0.83
86 Emerging concepts in outcome assessment for COPD clinical trials. Semin Respir Crit Care Med 2005 0.83
87 Randomized trial of zileuton for treatment of COPD exacerbations requiring hospitalization. COPD 2011 0.83
88 A unique spirometric phenotype in COPD. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2008 0.82
89 Computerized assessment of pulmonary fissure integrity using high resolution CT. Med Phys 2010 0.82
90 Influence of lightweight ambulatory oxygen on oxygen use and activity patterns of COPD patients receiving long-term oxygen therapy. COPD 2012 0.81
91 Determining the Role of Dynamic Hyperinflation in Patients with Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Respiration 2015 0.79
92 Deglutitive subglottic air pressure and respiratory system recoil. Dysphagia 2012 0.78
93 Computerized identification of airway wall in CT examinations using a 3D active surface evolution approach. Med Image Anal 2012 0.78
94 Size and morphology of the trachea before and after lung volume reduction surgery. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2004 0.78
95 Older adults with chronic lung disease report less limitation compared with younger adults with similar lung function impairment. Ann Am Thorac Soc 2015 0.77
96 Pharmacokinetics and metabolism of all-trans- and 13-cis-retinoic acid in pulmonary emphysema patients. J Clin Pharmacol 2008 0.77
97 Endothelial chronic destructive pulmonary disease (E-CDPD): is endothelial apoptosis a subphenotype or prequel to COPD? Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2011 0.77
98 COPD phenotypes: the answers are in the noise. COPD 2007 0.76
99 Elevated N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide is associated with mortality in tobacco smokers independent of airflow obstruction. PLoS One 2011 0.76
100 Use of endobronchial valves for native lung hyperinflation associated with respiratory failure in a single-lung transplant recipient for emphysema. Chest 2007 0.76
101 Relative utility of 6-minute walk vs. incremental shuttle walk: does it depend upon functional status? Respiration 2005 0.75
102 Response. Chest 2013 0.75
103 Considerations and pitfalls in phenotyping and reclassification of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Transl Res 2013 0.75
104 Mediastinal and Subcutaneous Chest Fat Are Differentially Associated with Emphysema Progression and Clinical Outcomes in Smokers. Respiration 2017 0.75
105 Computerized estimation of the lung volume removed during lung volume reduction surgery. Acad Radiol 2006 0.75
106 Clinical year in review III: asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, environmental and occupational lung disease, and ethics and end-of-life care. Proc Am Thorac Soc 2012 0.75