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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and lung transplantation: initial experience at a single brazilian center

Clinics; 75 (), 2020
OBJECTIVE: To report initial experience from the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in patients who received lung transplantation. METHODS: Retrospective study of a single tertiary center in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, a national reference in lung transplantation, based on the pros...

Mucosal bacterial vaccines in clinical practice - a novel approach to an old problem?

SUMMARY OBJECTIVES To evaluate the efficacy of mucosal bacterial vaccines (MBV) in reducing the number of exacerbations in patients with chronic respiratory disease. METHODS A prospective cohort study of patients followed at the Pneumology Unit of the University and Hospital Centre of Coimbra, with f...

Guia para o manejo da asma grave 2019 – Associação Brasileira de Alergia e Imunologia

Antes de rotular um paciente como tendo asma grave, é crucial confirmar o diagnóstico da doença e de sua gravidade, além de excluir diagnósticos diferenciais de condições que podem se assemelhar ou se confundir com a asma, tais como: tuberculose, doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica, disfunção d...

Tomografía computada de alta resolución en el diagnóstico de la fibrosis pulmonar idiopática

El patrón de neumonía intersticial usual (NIU) en la tomografía computada de alta resolución (TCAR) tiene un alto grado de correlación con el patrón histológico lo que permite obviar en dichos casos la necesidad de realizar biopsia pulmonar. La exactitud del diagnóstico de NIU en TCAR se basa en ...

Cuerpo extraño en vía aérea inferior de dos años de evolución: reporte de caso
Foreign body in lower airway of two years of evolution: case repor

Acta pediátr. hondu; 10 (2), 2019
La aspiración de un cuerpo extraño es un acontecimiento fatal que puede conducir a la muerte, definido como el ingreso de manera accidental de un objeto, orgánico o inorgánico, a la vía aérea, alojándose ya sea en la laringe, tráquea o bronquios. Este evento es común en la población pediátrica...

Deficiência de anticorpos específicos antipolissacarídeos

A deficiência de anticorpos específicos antipolissacarídeos é um dos erros inatos da imunidade predominantemente de anticorpos, destacando-se entre os defeitos mais frequentes. É caracterizada por uma permanência de imaturidade da resposta imunológica a antígenos polissacarídeos, estando normais...

Brazilian consensus on non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis

J. bras. pneumol; 45 (4), 2019
ABSTRACT Bronchiectasis is a condition that has been increasingly diagnosed by chest HRCT. In the literature, bronchiectasis is divided into bronchiectasis secondary to cystic fibrosis and bronchiectasis not associated with cystic fibrosis, which is termed non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis. Many causes ...

High-resolution computed tomography findings in young infants with cystic fibrosis detected by newborn screening

Clinics; 74 (), 2019
OBJECTIVE: High-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) allows the early detection of pathological changes in the lung structure, and reproducible scoring systems can be used to quantify chest computed tomography (CT) findings in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). The aim of the study was to describe earl...

Bronquiectasias secundarias a Tuberculosis pulmonar en pacientes de un hospital general
Bronchiectasis secondary to pulmonary tuberculosis in patients in a general hospital

Rev. méd. hered; 29 (4), 2018
La tuberculosis pulmonar (TBP) supone un problema de Salud Pública. Se estima que la mitad de los pacientes con TBP desarrollan a lo largo de su vida una complicación, siendo la más frecuente la bronquiectasia. Objetivos: Determinar las principales características epidemiológicas y clínicas de paci...