Publications by authors named "S Schwer"

Background: Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) is a common inflammatory disorder associated with lower airway disease. However, only few studies of CRSwNP from outside secondary/tertiary care centres have been published. We recently reported an asthma frequency of 44% and 65% in primary and secondary care patients respectively.

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Background: Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) is a common inflammatory disorder associated with asthma. This association is well described in patients with CRSwNP undergoing endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS); however, some patients are never referred for surgery, and the frequency of asthma in this group is largely unknown.

Objective: To determine the frequency of asthma in patients with CRSwNP treated in a primary care (PC) setting who have never been referred for surgery and to compare this with ESS patients.

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Processing literature (i.e., text corpora) to capture gene regulation events is not easy and can be driven by the final data representation.

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We describe a long-range optical coherence tomography system for size and shape measurement of large hollow organs in the human body. The system employs a frequency-domain optical delay line of a configuration that enables the combination of high-speed operation with long scan range. We compare the achievable maximum delay of several delay line configurations, and identify the configurations with the greatest delay range.

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The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of the different types of eardrum pathology in a cohort (cohort 1955) who were children before the era of ventilation tubes, and to compare these findings with the prevalence of eardrum pathology in a previous published cohort study on 222 children followed since the age of four years (cohort 1975) in the era of ventilation tubes. All inhabitants of Hillerød county born in 1955 were invited to a screening examination including otomicroscopy, tympanometry and audiometry. All eardrum pathology was recorded.

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