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Restrictive allograft dysfunction rather than bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome had a major impact on the overall survival after living-donor lobar lung transplantation
Chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) is a known long-term fatal disorder after lung transplantation. In this study, we evaluated the CLAD classification of the International Society for Heart and Lung Tra...
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Impact of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio on patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer who suffer radiation pneumonitis during the course of induction chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery
Radiation pneumonitis (RP) is an obstacle for patients after surgery following induction chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (LA-NSCLC). We performed a comparative analysis of the...
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The impact of prognostic nutrition index on the waitlist mortality of lung transplantation
The prognostic nutrition index (PNI), calculated using serum albumin and total lymphocyte count, is a recent topical index related to inflammation. Preoperative PNI is regarded as a new preoperative prognostic...
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Paediatric lung transplantation: the impact of age on the survival
We herein review the outcomes of paediatric lung transplantation (LTx) and analyse subgroups divided by age.
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Dynamics and role of rosin acid molecules for preparation of well-dispersed CaCO3 colloidal suspensions
We studied the dynamics and role of rosin acid molecules for the preparation of well-dispersed calcium carbonate (CaCO3) colloidal aqueous suspensions. We investigated a quantitative determination method of the a...
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Evidence of a sharper decrease in a non-indigenous mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis than in indigenous bivalves from 1978 to 2006 on Japanese rocky shores
In various studies encompassing large spatiotemporal scales, the densities of non-indigenous species and indigenous species in the same habitat increased and decreased, respectively, prior to reaching an equil...
