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SUBMITTER: Trapnell BC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3849781 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Trapnell Bruce C BC Luisetti Maurizio M
Orphanet journal of rare diseases 20130930
In 1963, five cases of alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency were reported in the scientific literature, as well as an attempt to treat pulmonary alveolar proteinosis by a massive washing of the lung (whole lung lavage). Now, fifty years later, it seems the ideal moment not only to commemorate these publications, but also to point out the influence both papers had in the following decades and how knowledge on these two fascinating rare respiratory disorders progressed over the years. This paper is there ...[more]