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The Puerto Rico Healthcare Crisis.
Ann Am Thorac Soc
December 2015
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Louisville Health Sciences Center, and Robley Rex VA Medical Center, Louisville, Kentucky.
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is an organized nonincorporated territory of the United States with a population of more than 3.5 million U.S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChronic alcohol ingestion and predisposition to lung "cirrhosis".
Alcohol Clin Exp Res
February 2014
Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Louisville Health Sciences Center and Robley Rex VA Medical Center, Louisville, Kentucky.
Background: Although liver is the organ most often associated with the damaging effects of chronic alcohol abuse, other organs may also be affected. In the past decade, data emerged linking chronic alcohol intake to lung dysfunction. However, the mechanisms by which alcohol affects the lung remain incompletely elucidated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFibrin sheath and its relation to subsequent events after tunneled dialysis catheter exchange.
Semin Dial
July 2014
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OhioUniversity of Louisville and Robley Rex VA Medical Center, Louisville, KentuckyUniversity of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.
The use of tunneled catheters (TDC) for chronic hemodialysis is frequent and often fails due to fibrin or thrombus and infection. We hypothesized that the presence of fibrin sheath in TDC increases the risk for subsequent catheter malfunction and infection. We did a retrospective review of TDC exchanges and de novo placements from January 2005 to September 2011.
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