… respiratory viral pathogens among patients with COPD who were hospitalized with acute
respiratory illness during winter seasons, and to study the association between respiratory viral …

… care due to chronic respiratory diseases or critical illnesses, the American Thoracic Society
(… chronic and advanced pulmonary disorders as well as those with critical illnesses. The task …

… In addition, the underlying respiratory disease may be worsened as a result of the immune
reconstitution syndrome, which may occur days to weeks after the initiation of HAART. In …

… SARS produces an acute respiratory illness with 23% to 32% of patients becoming critically
… with suspect or probable SARS who became critically ill, we compared critically ill patients …

… Conclusions Patients with advanced respiratory illness, and their carers, try to avoid emergency
admission, and use logical and complex decision-making before reluctantly accepting it. …

… familiar with some of the major age-related physiologic and pathophysiologic changes that
affect the outcome from respiratory failure and other critical illnesses. Respiratory Disease …

… The largest group comprised the 24 patients admitted because of pulmonary diseases, of
which PCP was the most common, occurring in 11. Forty-four admissions were for …

… Although the main marker in patients with chronic critical illness is respiratory failure requiring
prolonged mechanical ventilation, other clinical features are always present and outline a …

… respiratory diseases, including OSA and asthma. Thus, overweight and obese patients
should be encouraged to lose weight to reduce their risk of developing respiratory diseases …

… (aged over 80 years) with acute respiratory disease were included in our study. Data
were … of 3316 patients with acute respiratory diseases were admitted to our pulmonary in-patient …