Ultrasound Evaluation of the Quadriceps Muscle Contractile Index in Patients with Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Relationships with Clinical Symptoms, Disease Severity and Diaphragm Contractility

Anne-Catherine Maynard-Paquette,1 Claude Poirier,2 Carl Chartrand-Lefebvre,3,4 Bruno-Pierre Dubé2,5 1Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 2Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), Department of Medicine, Respiratory Medicine Division, Cheese Mon

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De-abbreviations: From Soviet Union to Contemporary Belarus

Abstract The article is dedicated to the study of ludic de-abbreviation, backronymization, or, alternatively, humorous decoding of the well-known abbreviations (which usually serve as names for political parties, countries, universities, and so on).A brief survey Diving Boards of the existing research is provided.Then, despite the fact that de-abbr

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Fibroblastic rheumatism

Fibroblastic rheumatism (FR) is a rare dermoarthopathy reported from different parts of the world since 1980.Although the exact cause is unknown, few Cheese reports implicate infection may be a triggering event.Patients usually present with multiple skin nodules and polyarthropathy with progressive skin contractures.Laboratory parameters including

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