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Links pertaining to Respiratory Tract Diseases | |
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| Shortness of Breath in Child or Infant - AAFP |
| Bronchiectasis - Adam, via MedlinePlus | |||
| About Bronchiectasis - Nat'l Jewish Med Research C. (US) | |||
| Bronchiectasis - Canadian Lung Association | |||
| Bronchiectasis [Emmons and Quellette] - eMedicine | |||
| Bronchiectasis in Cystic Fibrosis [Show et al.] - BrighamRad |
| Immotile Cilia Syndrome - Children's Hosp, Eastern Ontario (CA) | ||||
| About Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia [JO Fordice, 1995] - Baylor Coll., Houston (US) | ||||
| Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia [C O'Callaghan] - Leicester U. (UK) | ||||
| About Kartagener Syndrome [Bent and Olearczyk] - eMedicine | ||||
| Kartagener Syndrome - OMIM |
| Acute Bronchitis - Am Acad of Family Physicans | |||
| Acute Bronchitis [Hueston and Mainous III] - AAFP, Mar 1998 | |||
| Information on Chronic Bronchitis - Wrong Diagnosis | |||
| About Chronic Bronchitis - Am. Lung Association (US) | |||
| Symptoms of Chronic Bronchitis: see also under Cystic Fibrosis [links] |
| Bronchiolitis - Adam, via MedlinePlus | ||||
| Bronchiolitis Obliterans - (US) | ||||
| Bronchiolar Airway Disorders and Bronchiolitis Obliterans , 5 pages [GR Epler] | ||||
| Chronic lung transplant rejection: Bronchiolitis obliterans [subscription for full text] - UpToDate |
| Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia [Cordier et al.] - Orphanet, 2002/2004 | ||||||
| About Bronchiolitis Obliterans Organizing Pneumonia (BOOP) and a more scientific version, page 1 , page 2 , page 3 , and page 4 [GR Epler, 2001] |
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| About Your Lungs - Science Museum Minnesota (US) | ||
| About Pulmonary Examination - Washington Univ./Medicine (US) | ||
| The Lung Exam [C Goldberg] - School of Medicine, UCSD (US) | ||
| Lung Sounds from the R.A.L.E. Repository (CA) | ||
| On Lung Structure & Function and Pulmonary Surfactant [I Maddison] - South Bank Univ. (UK) | ||
| Spirometry: The Measurement and Interpretation of Ventilatory Function in Clinical Practice [Johns and Pierce, 1995, 2008] - (AU) | ||
| Chronic Lung Disease in Infants - WebMD/Healthwise | ||
| Pulmonary Pathology Index [images; EC Klatt] | ||
| The Drug-Induced Lung Diseases Page on the Web - Univ Hosp of Dijon (FR) | ||
| Pulmonary Disorders - Merck Manual 17th Ed. | ||
| Diagnosis and Management of Trapped Lung [Doelken and Sahn] - PCCU/ChestNet | ||
| The American Lung Association | ||
| The Canadian Lung Association | ||
| A Selection Criteria for Use of ECLS in Neonates - Univ of Michigan (US) | ||
| Second Wind - US Nat'l Lung Transplant Assoc. |
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| About Hemoptysis (Coughing up blood) - Pulmonology Channel | |||
| On Hemoptysis - - NLHEP (US) |
| About Pulmonary Hypertension treatment at Mayo Clinic Rochester (US) | |||
| About Pulmonary Hypertension [HW Farber] - Merck Manual, 2nd Home Edition | |||
| The Pulmonary Hypertension Association - (US) | |||
| New Treatment for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension [Tapson and Chami] - PCCU 2005, ACCP | |||
| About Pulmonary Hypertension treatment at Mayo Clinic Rochester (US) | |||
| PHCentral | |||
| PPH (Primary Pulmonary Hypertension) Newsletter | |||
| Prostacyclin for pulmonary hypertension - Cochrane Review, 2003 | |||
| A few Guides to Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS)/(ECMO) [for patients] - Univ of Michigan (US) | |||
| Information on Pulmonary (Arterial) Hypertension from Pulmonary Hypertension Treatments | |||
| The Alveolar Capillary Dysplasia Association |
| About Lung Abscess - Merck Manual | |||
| Lung Abscess [Kamangar and Sather], and Lung Abscess, surgical perspective [S Bhimij] - eMedicine | |||
| On Lung Abscess - Patient UK |
| Interstitial Lung Disease and Pulmonary Fibrosis - American Lung Association | |||
| Interstitial Lung Disease/Pulmonary Fibrosis - Nat'l Jewish Med and Research C. (US) | |||
| Radiological Signs of Interstitial Lung Disease [B Ritter] | |||
| Interstitial Lung Disease in Children [Hagood and Vaughan] - eMedicine |
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| Asbestosis - Mayo Clinic (US) | |||||
| Asbestosis [A and B Varkey] - eMedicine | |||||
| Asbestosis - Mesothelioma & Asbestos Awareness Center | |||||
| About some Asbestos related diseases - Derbyshire Asbestos Support Team (UK) |
| About Berylliosis [RA Dweik] - eMedicine | |||||
| On Beryllium exposure and Berylliosis - USA CHPPM |
| Silicosis - Wikipedia | |||||
| Silicosis [A and B Varkey]- eMedicine | |||||
| Silicosis - WHO | |||||
| Silicosis - Merck Manual |
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| Wegener's Granulomatosis Fact Sheet - NIAID | ||||
| About Wegener's granulomatosis - Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center | ||||
| WegenersNet .org | ||||
| Wegener's Granulomatosis - Vasculitis Foundation | ||||
| Ophthalmic aspects of Wegener's Granulomatosis: Diagnosis and Management [VS Sangwan] - MEEI (US) | ||||
| Living with Wegener's Granulomatosis [A Garinger] | ||||
| A non-typical case of Wegener's Granulomatosis [Goldblatt & Bastacky] - U of Pittsburgh |
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| Living with COPD - The Canadian Lung Association | ||||
| About COPD - NIH Senior Health (US) | ||||
| Diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease [Stephens and Yew] - AAFP, JUl 2008 | ||||
| Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Diseases | ||||
| Asthma and COPD: chalk and cheese [T Crockett] - The New Generalist, Spring 2003 | ||||
| Medications for COPD: A Review of Effectiveness [Grimes et al.] - AAFP, Oct 2007 (US) |
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| Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD) - KidsHealth | |||||
| Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia - Gaining and Growing, Univ Of Washington (US) |
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| About Pneumonia - Mayo Clinic (US) | |||
| About Pneumonia - Am. Lung Association (US) | |||
| Diagnosing Pneumonia Using Physical Examination - AAFP | |||
| Pneumonia , general information - Merck Manual | |||
| About Pneumonia, Bacterial [S Sharma] - eMedicine | |||
| On Pneumonia and Pleurisy [L Martin] | |||
| Pneumonia in Children - KidsHealth (US) | |||
| Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine - What You Need to Know - CDC | |||
| Mycoplasma Pneumonia [S Cantu Jr] - eMedicine | |||
| Pneumonia, Mycoplasma [S Cantu, Jr] - eMedicine | |||
| See also under Mycoplasma Infections [links] | |||
| See also under Legionellosis [links] | |||
| Practice Guidelines for the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults - IDSA/ATS 2007 (US) | |||
| Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia - AFIP (US) | |||
| On Unresolved Pneumonia - NLHEP (US) | |||
| Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia [Schreibman and Rigsby] - eMedicine | |||
| Exudative Pneumonia , microscopic image - Urbana Atlas of Pathology (US). | |||
| Aspiration Pneumonia [P Le Comte] - eMedicine |
| Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis - Duke Univ. | |||
| Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis - Wikipedia |
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| About Pulmonary Edema - Adam, via MedlinePlus | |||
| About Congestive Heart Failure and Pulmonary Edema [Grossman and Brown] - eMedicine | |||
| Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema illustrations [L Larson] - BioVisuals | |||
| Pulmonary Edema of Diving - Scuba-Doc |
| About Chest Pain and Pulmonary Embolism - MayoClinic | |||
| About Pulmonary Embolism [Feied and Handler] and more about Pulmonary Embolism [S Sharma] - eMedicine | |||
| Pulmonary embolism - GE Healthcare | |||
| Diagnosis of Pulmonary embolism - Radiology Rounds/MGH, Jul 2003 | |||
| Pulmonary Embolism Detection: Prospective Evaluation of Dual-Section Helical CT versus Selective Pulmonary Arteriography [Qanadli et al.] - Radiology, Nov 2000 | |||
| The management of suspected acute pulmonary embolism [guidelines 2003] - British Thoracic Society | |||
| Deep Vein Thrombosis & Pulmonary Embolism - UMass Med. School (US) | |||
| Is Thrombolytic Therapy Effective for Pulmonary Embolism? [K Almoosa] - AAFP, Mar 2002 | |||
| Pulmonary Embolism [teaching file; images] - Univ Radiologists of Cleveland (US) |
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| What is ARDS? (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome) - NHLBI (US) | |||
| ARDS Support Center | |||
| Respiratory Distress Syndrome [D Steele] - eMedicine | |||
| Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Clinical Network - (US) | |||
| Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome [Udobi and Touijer] - AFP, Jan 2003 (US) | |||
| ARDS - Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome - Pulmonology Channel |
| About Scimitar Syndrome - Children's Hospital Boston (US) | |||
| Late presentation and successful treatment of classical Scimitar syndrome [Grech et al.] - Images in Paediatric Cardiology, 2003 | |||
| A case of Scimitar Syndrome (Halasz's Syndrome/Venolobar Syndrome) [LM Rosen] - Univ of Hawaii/JA Burns School of Medicine |
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| About Rhinoscleroma - The Doctor's Doctor, and an (historical) image - Hebra Atlas/DermIS (DE) | |||
| Scleroma of the Nose and Pharynx [JR DiBartolomeo] - West J Med. 1976 | |||
| Rhinoscleroma [Goriniene and Schwartz] - eMedicine |
| About the Pleural Cavities [demo module; Romrell et al.] | ||
| Guidelines for Pleural Disease - British Thoracic Society | ||
| Thoracentesis: a step-by-step slide show - Picasa | ||
| Guidelines for the Management of pleural infection in children [Balfour-Lynn et al., 2005] - British Thoracic Society |
| Empyema, Pleuropulmonary [S Sharma] - eMedicine | |||
| Pneumonia, Empyema and Abscess [Zwanger and Purpura] - eMedicine |
| On Pleural Effusion - NLHEP (US) | |||
| About Pleural Effusion [FM Abrahamian] - eMedicine | |||
| Pleural Effusion - Wikipedia | |||
| On Pleural Fluid Analysis - ADAM/MedlinePlus | |||
| Pleural Effusion index - CDC (US) |
| About Pleurisy (Pleuritis) - Adam, via MedlinePlus | |||
| Pleurisy - HealthSquare | |||
| About Pleural Effusion and Pleurisy - Merck Manual | |||
| On SLE and Pleurisy - LUPUS Found. of Am. | |||
| About Thoracentesis - Adam, via MedlinePlus |
| About Pneumothorax [RW Light] - Merck Manual, 2nd Home Edition | |||
| Spontaneous Pneumothorax - American Lung Assoc. | |||
| Pneumothorax Index - MedicineNet | |||
| Pneumothorax, Tension and Traumatic [JG Bowman] - eMedicine | |||
| On the Management of Spontaneous Pneumothorax (scroll down --> page 7) [MH Baumann] | |||
| Spontaneous Pneumothorax Treatment Guidelines Previewed [CM Olsen] - Pulmonary Reviews, Jan 2000, and an Update [K Bradley] - Pulmonary Reviews, Jun 2001 | |||
| Pneumothorax.Org [K Jina] |
| An Altitude tutorial - Int'l Society for Mountain Medicine | |||
| Altitude Illness: Cerebral Syndromes and Pulmonary Syndromes [TE Dietz] - eMedicine | |||
| High Altitude Medicine Guide [E Dietz] | |||
| Human Adaptation to High Terrestrial Altitude [Young and Reeves] - Borden Institute (US) | |||
| Chronic maountain sickness (Monge disease) - Wikipedia | |||
| Altitude Illness - NOLS (US) | |||
| Going High: Pioneers At Altitude - Alive on Everest |
| The American Sleep Apnea Association | |||
| Breathing Disorders During Sleep - NHLBI, and discussions about Breathing Problems - Med Help Forums | |||
| On Sleep Apnea Therapies - Columbia Univ./Otolaryngol (US) | |||
| Treating Obstructive Sleep Apnea Improves Essential Hypertension and Quality of Life [Silevrberg et al.] - Am Family Physician, Jan 2002 | |||
| Laser Surgery for Snoring and Sleep Apnea and an article: One-Stage Laser-Assisted Uvulopalatoplasty [Dickson and Mintz] - J of Otolaryngology, 25(3), 1996 | |||
| Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Disease - J Am Coll Cardiol 2008 | |||
| Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Disease - J Am Coll Cardiol 2008 | |||
| On Treating Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Its Lesser Twin, Snoring [G Lindsley] - New tech Publ, Inc. | |||
| Sleep-related breathing disorders in children [SH Sheldon], 1996 - The Child's Doctor |
| Ondine's Curse - MedicineNet | |||||
| Idiopathic Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome: Diagnosis & Management [.pdf file], a statement by the American Thoracic Society '99 | |||||
| About Angela-Marie (CCHS) - The Massel Family, Ontario (CA) | |||||
| Brief note about Central Hypoventilation Syndrome, Congenital - NORD | |||||
| Breathing Pacemaker support for Central Sleep Apnea / CCHS [case stories] - Avery Laboratories | |||||
| Autonomic Control, Congenital Failure Of - OMIM |
| An Office Approach to the Diagnosis of Chronic Cough [WR Lawler] - AAFP (US) | |||
| About Cough, Chronic Cough, Rhinitis and Sinusitis [L Martin] | |||
| Chronic Cough - NLHEP (US) | |||
| Evaluation of a Patient with Chronic Cough [Holmes and Faddon] - AAFP, May 2004 | |||
| Cough: are children really different to adults? [AB Chang] - Cough Journal, Sep 2005 |
| Stridor (not on MeSH) | |||
| Evaluating Stridor and Wheezing [LD Holinger] - ChildsDoc | |||
| On Wheezing and Stridor - NLHEP (US) |
| Hyperventilation, an overview , and about Hyperventilation syndrome [E Newton] - eMedicine |
| About Meconium Aspiration - KidsHealth | |||
| Meconium Aspiration Syndrome - eMedicine | |||
| Meconium Aspiration Syndrome - Merck Manual |
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| Choking - Emergency - SpaceRef.com | ||||
| Upper Airway Obstruction (Epiglottitis, Croup, Foreign Body) - Dept of Paediatrics, Monash Univ (AU) | ||||
| The Airway Site [Airway Management Education] | ||||
| About The Heimlich Maneuver - MedlinePlus/ADAM | ||||
| Hanging Injuries and Strangulation - E-medicine, and an image of Hangman's fracture - Wayne State Univ. (US) |
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| Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis - MedicineNet |
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| Infections of the Respiratory System [Dasaraju & Liu] - Medical Microbiology/S. Baron | ||
| About Viral Respiratory Infections [GA Keen] - (ZA) | ||
| Respiratory Tract Infections (Viral, Children) - Merck Manual/Home ed. | ||
| Diagnosis of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections [NR Chamberlain] | ||
| Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections Reviews |
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| What Is a Cold? - MayoClinic (US) | |||
| Is it a Cold or the Flu? - Texas Children's Hospital | |||
| Common Cold [Gwaltney and Hayden] | |||
| What Is the difference between a cold and the flu? - Dr Greene | |||
| The Common Cold Centre - (UK) | |||
| Common Cold and Vitamin C - The Cochrane Library (UK) | |||
| On Vitamin C and Common Cold [H Barratt] - StudentBMJ, Apr 2002 | |||
| On Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower) therapy for the treatment of the common cold [Yale and Liu, 2004; abstract only] - via PubMed | |||
| FDA on the Safety of Phenylpropanolamine - Nov 20000 | |||
| Echinacea Not Effective in Treating Children's Colds - Study Results, Dec 2003, NCCAM | |||
| More on Echinacea and Common Cold - BBC, Jun 2007 | |||
| About Picornaviruses - MicrobiologyBytes | |||
| Rhinovirus Infections [MN Nguyen] - eMedicine |
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| Epiglottitis - Adam, via MedlinePlus | ||||
| A 3 year old child with fever and respiratory distress (Epiglottitis) - Pediatric Radiology, Aug 2004, VCU (US) | ||||
| Acute Epiglottitis [Santer and D'Alessandro] - Virtual Pediatric Hospital | ||||
| Upper Airway Obstruction (Epiglottitis, Croup, Foreign Body) - Dept of Paediatrics, Monash Univ (AU) | ||||
| Supraglottitis [WE Morgan; '93] - Baylor Coll. (US) | ||||
| Pediatric Epiglottitis - e-medicine |
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| On Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ( SARS ) - WHO | |||
| Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ( SARS ) - CDC (US) | |||
| Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ( SARS ) - EU/Public Health | |||
| SARS reference [Kamps Hoffmann], Oct 2003 | |||
| About Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ( SARS ) [M Vadivale] - (MY) | |||
| SARS Reference [online book; eds. Kamps and Hoffmann] | |||
| See also under Coronaviridae Infections [links] |
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| About Pertussis (Whooping Cough) - Wikipedia | |||
| Pertussis: A Diseases Affecting All Ages [DS Gregory] - AAFP, Aug 2006 | |||
| Pertussis [.pdf format] - Pink Book/CDC | |||
| About Bordetella pertussis information - Bacteria Museum |
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| About Tracheal Stenosis - GE Healthcare | |||
| Tracheal Stenosis [J Ongkasuwan, 2006] - Baylor Coll Med/Otolaryngol (US) | |||
| Tracheal Stenosis After Intubation [Spittle and McCluskey] - BMJ, Oct 2000 |
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