Is elevated CC chemokine level in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid predictive of a poor outcome of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?
Elevated levels of CCL2, CCL17 and CCL22 in BAL fluid might be predictive of a poor outcome in patients with IPF.
Our results suggest that loss of heterozygosity at D14S62 and D14S51 plays an important role in the metastasis and recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma patients following curative resection. Loss of heterozygosity at D14S62 and D14S51 in the plasma DNA of hepatocellular carcinoma patients detected by a simple and non-radioactive method has great potentials to be clinically used to predicate metastasis and recurrence after curative hepatic resection.