Sentence examples for fixed obstructive from inspiring English sources

In April 2006, state authorities found another worker with similar symptoms, and officials have since confirmed five other cases of "severe fixed obstructive lung disease".

In April 2006, state authorities found another worker with similar symptoms, and officials have since confirmed five other cases of "severe fixed obstructive lung disease". All of the victims worked in factories in California.

Spirometry at the age of 6 years shows a mixed restrictive and fixed obstructive pattern: total lung capacity 75% predicted, forced vital capacity 69% predicted, forced expired volume in one second 57% predicted.

Sweet et al. remark that ASA challenge and desensitization is not safe in patients with fixed obstructive airway diseases or those who have baseline FEV1 values of <1.5 L. A small number of cases have been reported where patients with AERD are unable to maintain a desensitized state despite undergoing standard aspirin desensitization protocol.

The STAMPEDE subjects (11 18, 21, & 23) with the group 1 miRNA expression profile have provisional diagnoses of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, fixed obstruction, airway hyperreactivity, air trapping, asthma, low DLCO (2 subjects), and constrictive bronchiolitis.

In this 'proof of concept' study we were primarily interested in the rate of lung function decline in subjects identified as obstructive by the fixed 0.70 FEV1/FVcutpointnt but as non-obstructive by an age and gender specific LLN cutpoint for this ratio (the discordant or 'LLN-Fixed+' category).

918 subjects were obstructive according to the fixed FEV1/FVC cutpoint; 389 (42%) of them were non-obstructive according to the LLN cutpoint.

In smokers, postbronchodilator FEV1 decline was 21 (SE 3) ml/year in those non-obstructive according to both cutpoints, 21 (7) ml/year in those obstructive according to the fixed but not according to the LLN cutpoint, and 50 (5) ml/year in those obstructive according to both cutpoints (p = 0.004).

We compared rate of lung function decline in respiratory symptomatic 40+ subjects who were 'obstructive' or 'non-obstructive' according to the fixed and/or age and gender specific lower limit of normal (LLN) FEV1/FVC cutpoints.

We fixed larvae for 2h in a 4%% formaldehyde solution in PEM buffer [ 123], and dissected them under a Zeiss Discovery V12 Stereomicroscope to expose their thoracic imaginal discs by removing obstructive tissues.

In past attempts to fix this problem, a bipartisan commitment was crippled by obstructive gambits.