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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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Elevated plasma level of Pentraxin 3 is associated with emphysema and mortality in smokers

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  • Yingze Zhang Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • John Tedrow Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Pulmonary Medicine and Respiratory Care, St Mary’s of Michigan, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mehdi Nouraie Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Xiaoyun Li Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Divay Chandra Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jessica Bon Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Daniel J Kass Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Carl R Fuhrman Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Joseph K Leader Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Steven R Duncan Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Naftali Kaminski Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Frank C Sciurba Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Frank C Sciurba, Medicine, Emphysema Research Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; sciurbafc{at}upmc.edu
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Zhang Y, Tedrow J, Nouraie M, et al
Elevated plasma level of Pentraxin 3 is associated with emphysema and mortality in smokers
Thorax 2021;76:335-342.

Publication history

  • Received May 20, 2020
  • Revised October 20, 2020
  • Accepted November 3, 2020
  • First published January 21, 2021.
Online issue publication 
March 15, 2021

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