With more than 50,000 procedures having been performed worldwide, lung transplantation (LT)
has become the standard of care for patients with end-stage chronic respiratory failure. …

… Recent data show that patients on ECMO survive better when the median plateau pressure
is around 25 cm H 2 O [8]. The respiratory frequency can be lowered to under ten cycles a …

… h period despite the use of IV vasopressin. We have not taken into account the amount of blood
expectorated during a 24-h … produced within 24 h have been proposed in the literature, 2, …

Study objectives To assess the pulmonary hemodynamic characteristics in COPD
candidates for lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) or lung transplantation (LT). Design …

This study aims to describe the haemodynamic and survival characteristics of patients with
pulmonary hypertension in the recently individualised syndrome of combined pulmonary …

… All patients then underwent spiral CT and venous ultrasonography of the legs within 24 h
of enrolment. Of patients with negative findings by these procedures, those who had been …

Rationale: Single-center randomized controlled trials of the Zephyr endobronchial valve (EBV)
treatment have demonstrated benefit in severe heterogeneous emphysema. This is the …

Portopulmonary hypertension represents a major risk factor for transplantation; therefore,
preoperative detection is crucial. The aims of this study were to determine (1) whether Doppler …

… Prevalence of H. pylori infection was not significantly different in … H. pylori infection in the
general population is only 18% 28, we cannot definitively exclude that few of our patients had H. …

Importance Therapeutic options for severe emphysema are limited. Lung volume reduction
using nitinol coils is a bronchoscopic intervention inducing regional parenchymal volume …