Assessment of a University-Based Outpatient Asthma Education Program for Children.

Introduction: To assess the effect of a pediatric asthma intervention program on reducing asthma morbidity.

Methods: Study eligibility criteria included aged less than 18 years and at least two office visits for asthma in the previous year. Patients were randomly assigned to either the control or intent to intervene group.

The Burden of Silicosis in Michigan: 1988-2016.

Rationale: Exposure to respirable crystalline silica causes silicosis, a preventable, progressive occupational lung disease. A more rigorous occupational health standard for silica could help protect silica-exposed workers.

Objectives: To describe trends over 29 years of silicosis surveillance in Michigan.

Predicting survival of lung transplantation candidates with idiopathic interstitial pneumonia: does PaO(2) predict survival?

Objective: To find a parameter that would discriminate between the patients with idiopathic interstitial pneumonia who survived to undergo transplantation and those who died while waiting to undergo transplantation.

Methods: A retrospective review was performed of all lung transplant referrals for idiopathic interstitial pneumonia that were listed with United Network for Organ Sharing at the University of California San Diego from January 1990 to February 1999. Of the 331 patients who were listed, 48 met the eligibility criteria.

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis following anthrax vaccination.

A case of hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) following anthrax vaccination is described. The patient is a 39-year-old, previously healthy man on active duty in the US Marine Corps, in whom a urticaral skin rash and progressive dyspnea on exertion developed following subcutaneous anthrax vaccination. A diagnosis of bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia was made from transbronchial lung biopsy samples after evaluation excluded multiple infectious and collagen vascular etiologies.