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«Below is a series of 15 articles available for free, written by the most distinguished AlphaDocs on this planet for The Journal of COPD. This is a feast of information!
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(This link will take you to the Journal of COPD’s special issue, from here you can choose the articles you want and download them for free.)
Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency is the focus of the latest issue of the Journal of COPD. The special issue of the medical journal commemorates the 50th anniversary of the discovery of Alpha-1, with articles written by leading Alpha-1 clinicians and researchers.
The introduction is written by Robert Sandhaus, MD, PhD, clinical director of the Alpha-1 Foundation and medical director of AlphaNet, and James Stoller, MD, head of respiratory therapy and executive director, physician leadership development at Cleveland Clinic, and a member of the Alpha-1 Foundation’s Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee. Sandhaus is the editor of this issue of the Journal of COPD and Stoller is co-editor.
The Journal also carries landmark articles by Swedish researchers Carl-Bertil Laurell, MD, PhD, and Sten Eriksson, MD, PhD, who first described Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency in 1963; and Harvey Sharp, MD, of the University of Minnesota, who published the first paper describing Alpha-1-related liver disease in 1969.
Among other authors and topics:
* European researchers Robert Stockley, MD, of the UK, Asger Dirksen, MD, of Denmark, and Jan Stolk, MD, of the Netherlands, on “The European Experience” with Alpha-1.
* Jeffrey Teckman, MD, of St. Louis University, on current understanding and future therapy of Alpha-1 liver disease.
* Stoller and Mark Brantly, MD, director of the Alpha-1 Research Program at the University of Florida, on the challenge of detecting Alpha-1.
* David Lomas, MD, of the UK, a personal perspective called “Twenty Years of Polymers.”
Gene-based therapy, augmentation therapy, and an examination of “Neutrophil Elastase-Mediated Lung Disease” are among the other major topics covered.
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