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Lessons from the World Trade Center disaster: airway disease presenting as restrictive dysfunction.
Chest - 1 Jul 2013
Berger Kenneth I, Reibman Joan, Oppenheimer Beno W, Vlahos Ioannis, Harrison Denise, Goldring Roberta M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The present study (1) characterizes a physiologic phenotype of restrictive dysfunction due to airway injury and (2) compares this phenotype to the phenotype of interstitial lung disease (ILD). METHODS: This is a retrospective study of 54 persistently symptomatic subjects following World Trade Center (WTC) dust exposure. Inclusion criteria were reduced vital capacity (VC), FEV1/VC>77%, and normal chest...
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