Search results for "Respiratory medicine"

Artificial intelligence as an emerging diagnostic approach in paediatric pulmonology.

2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the subset of computer science that covers anything related to making machines smart. Along with machine learning (ML), AI encompasses a wide range of approaches and technologies, including knowledge discovery and data mining methodologies, predictive analytics, advanced statistics for pattern recognition and neurocomputing. AI technologies and their expanding applications in diagnostics call for constant updates of knowledge and skills. In this commentary, we outline recent breakthroughs in paediatric pulmonology.

Clinical physiology and sleep: insights from the European Respiratory Society Congress 2017.

2017

The 2017 Annual Congress of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) held in Milan has featured the latest research on clinical physiology and sleep.

Obstructive sleep apnea and cancer: a complex relationship

2020

Purpose of review Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been recognized as a risk factor for cancer mainly through hypoxia, based on studies that did not distinguish among cancer types. The purpose of this review is to discuss the most recent data on epidemiology and pathophysiology of the OSA-cancer association. Recent findings According to epidemiological studies, OSA may have different influences on each type of cancer, either increasing or decreasing its incidence and aggressiveness. Time spent with oxygen saturation below 90% appears the polysomnographic variable most strongly associated with unfavorable effects on cancer. Experimental studies support the role of hypoxia as an important ri…

Secretion Management Must Be Considered When Reporting Success or Failure of Noninvasive Ventilation

2003

Determinants of Survival in Patients with Extracorporeal Support

2018

Toxicidad pulmonar por fármacos

1999

Hybrid minimally invasive esophagectomy for esophageal cancer : less is more

2019

In a recently published multi-center randomized controlled trial ( New England Journal of Medicine 2019;380:152-162) Christophe Mariette and colleagues compared open transthoracic esophagectomy to hybrid esophagectomy (open thoracic phase, laparoscopic abdominal phase) for patients with resectable cancer of the middle or lower third of the esophagus (MIRO trial) (1).

Reply to Chousterman et al.: Delaying Renal Replacement Therapy Could Be Harmful in Patients with Acute Brain Injury

2019

A review of 507 off-pump coronary bypass patients: a single center experience.

2007

This retrospective study evaluates perioperative results of 'Off-pump' coronary artery bypass surgery (OPCAB) experience in a single center. Five hundred and seven patients were operated (median sternotomy) from 1998 to 2002 using OPCAB. Patient data were registered and risk prediction calculated using the full logistic version of EuroSCORE. Overall, 1091 distal anastomoses were performed and only five (1%) patients required conversion to cardiopulmonary bypass. The predicted mortality was 3.8+/-4.5%, the observed mortality was 2.37%. OPCAB technique has become a standard approach in our department with low mortality and morbidity rates even in treatment of multivessel disease or high-risk …

The dawning of perioperative care in esophageal cancer

2017

The currently published paper “ Reduced fitness and physical functioning are long-term sequelae after curative treatment for esophageal cancer: a matched control study ” by Gannon et al . (1) focuses on a highly relevant topic of esophageal surgery, which has been greatly under-addressed in the past. Objective data on physical performance outcomes and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of disease-free survivors after esophagectomy for cancer compared with a noncancer control group are rare (1). Data by Gannon et al . clearly show that disease-free survivors of curative esophageal cancer treatment display a significant compromise in physical functioning as compared to the control group, …