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3 groups of 37 patients were examined, in which for treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax drainage of pleural cavity and medicamentous pleurodesis with tetracycline hydrochloride and 4% solution of sodium bicarbonate were used. Interdependence of clinical criteria and level of protease inhibitors
Hydroxyproline transfer to an incubation medium was studied in ten emphysematous, nine relapsing pneumothorax, and eight control samples surgically removed from 2 females and 25 males, ranging in age from 17 to 69 years. Total hydroxyproline in the lung pieces, expressed as a fraction of DNA, was
BACKGROUND
Although blebs and bullae are frequently found in the apexes of lungs of patients with primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP), its pathogens remain unclear.
OBJECTIVE
To examine the role of proteases [matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2, MMP-7 and MMP-9] and antiproteases [tissue inhibitors
The process of elastin and collagen fiber destruction was presented based on the example of the changes taking place in the course of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and primary spontaneous pneumothorax. In 1963, when analyzing patients with α1 antitrypsin deficiency, Dr Laurell and Dr
Emphysema is defined in anatomical terms as enlargement of the gas-exchanging part of the lung (the acinus) accompanied by destruction of respiratory tissue. Emphysema is classified by the way that the acinus is dominantly involved. In proximal acinar emphysema, the proximal part of the