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An epidemic of occupational allergy to latex involving health care workers by Hunt, L W, Fransway, A F, Reed, C E, Miller, L K, Jones, R T, Swanson, M C, Yunginger, J W

“…IgE-mediated sensitivity to natural rubber latex is being recognized more frequently among health care workers. Between January 1990 and June 1993, we…”
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Extractable latex allergens and proteins in disposable medical gloves and other rubber products by Yunginger, John W., Jones, Richard T., Fransway, Anthony F., Kelso, John M., Warner, Mark A., Hunt, Loren W.

“…Background: IgE-mediated sensitization to rubber proteins is being reported with increasing frequency in health care workers. To explore the relative…”
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Nebulized lidocaine in the treatment of severe asthma in children: a pilot study by Decco, M L, Neeno, T A, Hunt, L W, O'Connell, E J, Yunginger, J W, Sachs, M I

“…Glucocorticoids have been used to treat asthma since the 1950s; however, their adverse systemic effects have limited their duration of use and dosage…”
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Removal of bronchoalveolar cells augments the late eosinophilic response to segmental allergen challenge by Hunt, L. W., Gleich, G. J., Kita, H., Weiler, D. A., Schroeder, D. R., Vuk-Pavlovic, Z., Sur, S.

“…Background In patients with quiescent asthma, macrophages are the most prevalent cells recovered by bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL). Through activation via their…”
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Effect of nebulized lidocaine on severe glucocorticoid-dependent asthma by Hunt, L W, Swedlund, H A, Gleich, G J

“…To determine whether nebulized lidocaine is a useful therapy in patients with severe glucocorticoid-dependent asthma. We prospectively conducted an open study…”
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Accuracy of the Death Certificate in a Population-Based Study of Asthmatic Patients by Hunt, Loren W, Silverstein, Marc D, Reed, Charles E, O'Connell, Edward J, O'Fallon, William M, Yunginger, John W

“…Objective.—To quantify the reliability of death certificate data concerning asthma.Design.—The complete medical records of decedents were reviewed by a…”
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Eosinophil recruitment is associated with IL-5, but not with RANTES, twenty–four hours after allergen challenge by Sur, Sanjiv, Kita, Hirohito, Gleich, Gerald J., Chenier, Thomas C., Hunt, Loren W.

“…Several lines of evidence suggest that the chemokine RANTES may play a role in eosinophilia observed during allergic inflammation. To test this hypothesis, six…”
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Cytokine production at the site of disease in chronic eosinophilic pneumonitis by Kita, H, Sur, S, Hunt, L W, Edell, E S, Weiler, D A, Swanson, M C, Samsel, R W, Abrams, J S, Gleich, G J

“…Chronic eosinophilic pneumonitis (CEP) is characterized by longstanding respiratory symptoms accompanied by a massive pulmonary eosinophil infiltration. We…”
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Endotoxin contamination causes neutrophilia following pulmonary allergen challenge by Hunt, L W, Gleich, G J, Ohnishi, T, Weiler, D A, Mansfield, E S, Kita, H, Sur, S

“…Segmental bronchoprovocation (SBP) with allergen was used in an attempt to study eosinophils recruited to the airway 24 h after challenge. Unexpectedly, in the…”
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Simultaneous IgE‐mediated urticaria and contact dermatitis from latex by Mahmoudi, M., Dinneen, A. M., Hunt, L. W.

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Purification of tryptase from a human mast cell line by Butterfield, J H, Weiler, D A, Hunt, L W, Wynn, S R, Roche, P C

“…The neutral protease tryptase has been isolated from a human mast cell line, HMC-1. The HMC-1 line was established from the peripheral blood of a patient with…”
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Safety considerations in treating concomitant diseases in patients with asthma by HUNT, L. W

“…The treatment for asthma usually involves a combination of drugs used for bronchodilation and to treat underlying airway inflammation. When asthma is severe,…”
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Allergen challenge in asthma: association of eosinophils and lymphocytes with interleukin-5 by Sur, S, Gleich, G J, Offord, K P, Swanson, M C, Ohnishi, T, Martin, L B, Wagner, J M, Weiler, D A, Hunt, L W

“…To test whether eosinophil recruitment after pulmonary allergen challenge is associated with interleukin (IL)-5 in patients with asthma, we performed segmental…”
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Treatment of asthma with nebulized lidocaine: A randomized, placebo-controlled study by Hunt, Loren W., Frigas, Evangelo, Butterfield, Joseph H., Kita, Hirohito, Blomgren, Judith, Dunnette, Sandra L., Offord, Kenneth P., Gleich, Gerald J.

“…In 2 prior uncontrolled studies, nebulized lidocaine reduced oral glucocorticoid use in patients with severe glucocorticoid-dependent asthma. We tested the…”
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Anaphylaxis induced by the carboxymethylcellulose component of injectable triamcinolone acetonide suspension (Kenalog) by Patterson, D L, Yunginger, J W, Dunn, W F, Jones, R T, Hunt, L W

“…Allergic reactions to various corticosteroids are rare but have been reported previously. We wished to determine the etiology of an anaphylactic reaction in a…”
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The epidemiology of latex allergy in health care workers by Hunt, L W

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Immunofluorescent staining for mast cells in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: quantification and evidence for extracellular release of mast cell tryptase by Hunt, L W, Colby, T V, Weiler, D A, Sur, S, Butterfield, J H

“…In many diseases, retrospective analysis for determining the presence of mast cells has been difficult because of their loss of metachromatic staining…”
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A Medical-Center-Wide, Multidisciplinary Approach to the Problem of Natural Rubber Latex Allergy by Hunt, Loren W., Boone-Orke, Jodie L., Fransway, Anthony F., Fremstad, Charles E., Jones, Richard T., Swanson, Mark C., McEvoy, Marian T., Miller, Linda K., Majerus, Elizabeth T., Luker, Patricia A., Scheppmann, Donald L., Webb, Maurice J., Yunginger, John W.

“…Latex is a common cause of occupational allergy in health care workers; latex-sensitized patients are at increased risk of allergic reactions in medical…”
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Sudden-onset fatal asthma. A distinct entity with few eosinophils and relatively more neutrophils in the airway submucosa? by Sur, S, Crotty, T B, Kephart, G M, Hyma, B A, Colby, T V, Reed, C E, Hunt, L W, Gleich, G J

“…To determine the histologic differences in the airways of patients who died from sudden-onset asthma and the more common slow-onset asthma, we studied seven…”
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Quantification of occupational latex aeroallergens in a medical center by Swanson, Mark C., Bubak, Mark E., Hunt, Loren W., Yunginger, John W., Warner, Mark A., Reed, Charles E.

“…To determine the quantity, variability, and mean aerodynamic diameter of latex aeroallergens in a large medical center, we collected air samples from work…”
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