Clip in medical imaging: A comprehensive survey

Z Zhao, Y Liu, H Wu, M Wang, Y Li, S Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), a simple yet effective pre-training
paradigm, successfully introduces text supervision to vision models. It has shown promising …

Streptococcus pneumoniae's Virulence and Host Immunity: Aging, Diagnostics, and Prevention

LRK Brooks, GI Mias - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Streptococcus pneumoniae is an infectious pathogen responsible for millions of deaths
worldwide. Diseases caused by this bacterium are classified as pneumococcal diseases …

Adverse effects of proton-pump inhibitor use in older adults: a review of the evidence

ML Maes, DR Fixen… - Therapeutic advances in …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) are a widely prescribed class of medications used to treat acid-
related disorders and use has significantly increased over the last few decades. PPIs are …

Diagnosis and treatment of community‐acquired pneumonia in adults: 2016 clinical practice guidelines by the Chinese Thoracic Society, Chinese Medical Association

B Cao, Y Huang, DY She, QJ Cheng… - The clinical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Community‐acquired pneumonia (CAP) in adults is an infectious disease with high
morbidity in China and the rest of the world. With the changing pattern in the etiological …

The burden of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia in the era of antibiotic resistance

P Peyrani, L Mandell, A Torres… - Expert review of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a significant global health problem
and leading cause of death and hospitalization in both the US and abroad. Increasing …

Defensive properties of mucin glycoproteins during respiratory infections—relevance for Sars-CoV-2

M Chatterjee, JPM van Putten, K Strijbis - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mucus plays a pivotal role in protecting the respiratory tract against microbial infections. It
acts as a primary contact site to entrap microbes and facilitates their removal from the …

Innate immune responses in the ageing lung

DM Boe, LA Boule, EJ Kovacs - Clinical & Experimental …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The world is undergoing an unprecedented shift in demographics, with the number of
individuals over the age of 60 years projected to reach 2 billion or more by 2050 …

[HTML][HTML] Guidelines for diagnosis and management of community-and hospital-acquired pneumonia in adults: Joint ICS/NCCP (I) recommendations

D Gupta, R Agarwal, AN Aggarwal, N Singh… - Lung India, 2012 - journals.lww.com
3. Chest radiograph should be repeated if the patient is not improving and also for all those
patients who have persistence or worsening of symptoms/physical signs or those in whom …

Vascular niche in lung alveolar development, homeostasis, and regeneration

A Mammoto, T Mammoto - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Endothelial cells (ECs) constitute small capillary blood vessels and contribute to delivery of
nutrients, oxygen and cellular components to the local tissues, as well as to removal of …

The management of community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly

P Faverio, S Aliberti, G Bellelli, G Suigo, S Lonni… - European journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Pneumonia is one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality in the elderly. The elderly
population has exponentially increased in the last decades and the current epidemiological …