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Levels of Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Controlled and Uncontrolled Asthma based on Asthma Control Test in Persahabatan Hospital

Ni Made Restiawati, Faisal Yunus, Ratnawati. Abstract Background : Exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) is recognized as reliable surrogate marker of eosinophilic airway inflammation in asthma patient and offers the advantage of being completely non-invasive and easy procedure. Methods : This cross-sectional comparative study involves 96 asthmatic subjects which then classified into two main categories : […]

Surgery in Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, Emphasized in the Preventing of Disease Transmision to the Environment: Case Study in Persahabatan Hospital

Panji Utomo, Susan Hendriarini Mety, Agung Wibawanto Abstract The burden of tuberculosis in Indonesia has become more emerging and challenging with the increasing number of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) and the extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB). The XDR TB is defined as resistance to at least rifampicin and isoniazid (which is the definition […]

Exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO) in Patients with Asthma Exacerbation and in Non Exacerbation at Persahabatan Hospital

Arief Riadi Arifin, Faisal Yunus, Ratnawati, Aria Kekalih Abstract Background : Nitric oxide is detected in expired air which is physiologically released by epithedial cells of pulmonary vasculature, cells of lower respiratory tract, upper respiratory tract and paranasal sinuses. Levels in normal human expiratory air range from 5-10 parts per billion (ppb); which is increased […]