Published in Chest on September 25, 2009
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A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of acupuncture in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): the COPD-acupuncture trial (CAT). Arch Intern Med (2012) 2.20
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Quantitative assessment of airway remodeling using high-resolution CT. Chest (2002) 1.79
Risk and severity of COPD is associated with the group-specific component of serum globulin 1F allele. Chest (2004) 1.77
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Nasal continuous positive airway pressure improves quality of life in obesity hypoventilation syndrome. Sleep Breath (2003) 1.59
CT scan findings of emphysema predict mortality in COPD. Chest (2010) 1.57
Effect of short-term treatment with inhaled corticosteroid on airway wall thickening in asthma. Am J Med (2004) 1.53
Long-term clinical course of a patient with anti PL-12 antibody accompanied by interstitial pneumonia and severe pulmonary hypertension. Intern Med (2005) 1.52
Matrix metalloproteinase-9 promoter polymorphism associated with upper lung dominant emphysema. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2005) 1.52
Specific IgE response to trichophyton and asthma severity. Chest (2009) 1.49
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Hot spring bath and Legionella pneumonia: an association confirmed by genomic identification. Intern Med (2002) 1.48
Corrected QT dispersion and cardiac sympathetic function in patients with obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome. Chest (2004) 1.47
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Falls in blood pressure in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea after long-term nasal continuous positive airway pressure treatment. J Hypertens (2006) 1.46
MercuryII-mediated formation of thymine-HgII-thymine base pairs in DNA duplexes. J Am Chem Soc (2006) 1.46
The use of non-invasive ventilation for life-threatening asthma attacks: Changes in the need for intubation. Respirology (2010) 1.44
Importance of ventilator mode in long-term noninvasive positive pressure ventilation. Respir Med (2009) 1.43
Cerebrospinal fluid concentration of gefitinib and erlotinib in patients with non-small cell lung cancer. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol (2012) 1.43
Polymorphisms of B7 (CD80 and CD86) genes do not affect disease susceptibility to sarcoidosis. Respiration (2005) 1.42
Videothoracoscopy-assisted surgical lung biopsy for interstitial lung diseases. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2014) 1.41
Noninvasive ventilation improves the outcome of pulmonary complications after liver resection. Intern Med (2010) 1.40
Relative contributions of emphysema and airway remodelling to airflow limitation in COPD: Consistent results from two cohorts. Respirology (2015) 1.40
Pulmonary hemorrhage induced by epileptic seizure. Heart Lung (2011) 1.39
Epigenetic inheritance in rice plants. Ann Bot (2007) 1.35
Cerebrospinal fluid concentration of erlotinib and its active metabolite OSI-420 in patients with central nervous system metastases of non-small cell lung cancer. J Thorac Oncol (2010) 1.34
Treatment of pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma with bevacizumab. J Thorac Oncol (2010) 1.32
Relationship between pulmonary emphysema and osteoporosis assessed by CT in patients with COPD. Chest (2008) 1.28
Prostaglandin F(2alpha) receptor signaling facilitates bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis independently of transforming growth factor-beta. Nat Med (2009) 1.28
Pulmonary manifestations of primary Sjogren's syndrome: a clinical, radiologic, and pathologic study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2004) 1.27
Good clinical response to gefitinib in a non-small cell lung cancer patient harboring a rare somatic epidermal growth factor gene point mutation; codon 768 AGC > ATC in exon 20 (S768I). Jpn J Clin Oncol (2010) 1.26
Development of a Japanese version of the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (JESS) based on item response theory. Sleep Med (2008) 1.22
Longitudinal deteriorations in patient reported outcomes in patients with COPD. Respir Med (2006) 1.18
Role of non-invasive ventilation in managing life-threatening acute exacerbation of interstitial pneumonia. Intern Med (2010) 1.16
Expression of breast cancer resistance protein is associated with a poor clinical outcome in patients with small-cell lung cancer. Lung Cancer (2008) 1.14
The Japanese Respiratory Society guidelines for management of cough. Respirology (2006) 1.13
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Optimal cutoff level of breath carbon monoxide for assessing smoking status in patients with asthma and COPD. Chest (2003) 1.11
Efficacy of increased-dose erlotinib for central nervous system metastases in non-small cell lung cancer patients with epidermal growth factor receptor mutation. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol (2011) 1.11
Incidence of pulmonary hypertension and its clinical relevance in patients with sarcoidosis. Chest (2006) 1.10
The plasminogen activation system reduces fibrosis in the lung by a hepatocyte growth factor-dependent mechanism. Am J Pathol (2004) 1.08
Association of diffuse, random pulmonary metastases, including miliary metastases, with epidermal growth factor receptor mutations in lung adenocarcinoma. Cancer (2010) 1.07
Maintenance Treatment with Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor after First-Line Chemotherapy in Mutation-Positive Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol (2015) 1.07
Role of small airways in asthma: investigation using high-resolution computed tomography. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2006) 1.07
Isolation of drug-resistant pathogens does not always require use of broad-spectrum antibiotics in pneumonia. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2014) 1.06
Thalidomide prevents bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in mice. J Immunol (2007) 1.05
Effect of transforming growth factor-beta receptor I kinase inhibitor 2,4-disubstituted pteridine (SD-208) in chronic allergic airway inflammation and remodeling. J Pharmacol Exp Ther (2006) 1.05
All-trans-retinoic acid prevents radiation- or bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2006) 1.05
Thioredoxin-1 ameliorates cigarette smoke-induced lung inflammation and emphysema in mice. J Pharmacol Exp Ther (2008) 1.04
Longitudinal study of airway dimensions in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using computed tomography. Respirology (2008) 1.04