CORRELATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY AND IMMUNOLOGICAL BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE IN INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE AT THE ONSET OF INFLAMMATORY RHEUMATIC DISEASES: IMPLICATIONS FOR DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES

Correlation of high-resolution computed tomography and immunological bronchoalveolar lavage in interstitial lung disease at the onset of inflammatory rheumatic diseases: implications for diagnosis and therapeutic strategies

Abstract Objectives Inflammatory rheumatic diseases (IRD) are often associated with interstitial lung disease (ILD).The aim of the present study was to establish a correlation between the findings on HRCT 12GN and the immunological bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL).Methods The study included 74 patients with newly diagnosed IRD and evidence of ILD on HR

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A class of degenerate elliptic eigenvalue problems

We consider a general class of eigenvalue problems where the leading elliptic term corresponds to a convex homogeneous energy function that is not Toners necessarily differentiable.We derive a strong maximum principle and show uniqueness of the first eigenfunction.Moreover we prove the existence of a sequence of eigensolutions by using a critical p

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