Pneumologie
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Sarcoidosis is a multifactorial and polygenic disorder. The current knowledge of its genetics will be presented and discussed in the context of other granulomatous disorders of known and unknown aetiology. The differing and common features of these disorders lead to the perspective that in near future it will be possible to establish genotype-phenotype correlations which will predict the course and therapy response in an individual case.
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The aim of the present study was to evaluate anew scale for assessing COPD-related disability. The scale is an adaptation of the pain disability index (PDI), which is a standard instrument in diagnosing disability in chronic pain patients. An 11-point rating scale is used to assess disability in seven different areas of life. ⋯ The scale further demonstrated high correlations with questionnaires assessing related constructs [St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ): Pearson's correlation coefficients r=0.59 to 0.83, p
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Editorial Historical Article
[Pneumology over the course of time: looking back at the first 50 conferences of the German Society for Pneumology].