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{"title":"Musculoskeletal aspects of respiratory function in cystic fibrosis: a cross-sectional comparative study.","authors":"Niklas Sinderholm Sposato, Kristofer Bjerså, Marita Gilljam, Louise Lannefors, Monika Fagevik Olsén","doi":"10.1080/20018525.2024.2350206","DOIUrl":"10.1080/20018525.2024.2350206","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Respiration is an intricate interaction between visceral and musculoskeletal structures. In cystic fibrosis (CF), the airways and lungs are subject to progressive obstruction and destruction. However, knowledge about the musculoskeletal aspects of respiratory function and symptoms is still limited in this patient group.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In a cross-sectional comparative study, 21 adults with CF enrolled at the Gothenburg CF Centre were matched with 42 healthy controls. The two groups were examined and compared in terms of thoracic mobility, respiratory muscle strength, lung function, and musculoskeletal pain in accordance with a predefined protocol.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Significant differences were observed between the groups in the number of tender points, thoracic excursion, forced vital capacity (FVC), and forced expiratory volume (FEV). The CF group also demonstrated a tendency toward reduced function in other measurements, although these were not statistically significant.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This cross-sectional study revealed that people with CF have reduced thoracic mobility and an increased prevalence of muscular tender points, alongside decreased lung function, compared to healthy controls. These findings stress the need for greater emphasis on the often-overlooked musculoskeletal aspects of CF care, especially as people with CF are living longer and may require more musculoskeletal health support.</p>","PeriodicalId":11872,"journal":{"name":"European Clinical Respiratory Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"2350206"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11080665/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140897629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ultrasound in predicting improvement in dyspnoea after therapeutic thoracentesis in patients with recurrent unilateral pleural effusion.","authors":"Katrine Fjaellegaard, Jesper Koefod Petersen, Gitte Alstrup, Søren Skaarup, Paul Frost Clementsen, Christian B Laursen, Rahul Bhatnagar, Uffe Bodtger","doi":"10.1080/20018525.2024.2337446","DOIUrl":"10.1080/20018525.2024.2337446","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In patients with recurrent pleural effusion, therapeutic thoracentesis is one way of relief. Correct prediction of which patients will experience relief following drainage may support the management of these patients. This study aimed to assess the association between ultrasound (US) characteristics and a relevant improvement in dyspnoea immediately following drainage.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In a prospective, observational study, patients with recurrent unilateral pleural effusion underwent US evaluation of effusion characteristics and diaphragm movement measured by M-mode and the Area method before and right after drainage. The level of dyspnoea was assessed using the modified Borg scale (MBS). A minimal important improvement in dyspnoea was defined as delta MBS ≥ 1.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the 104 patients included, 53% had a minimal important improvement in dyspnoea following thoracentesis. We found no association between US-characteristics, including diaphragm shape or movement (M-mode or the Area method), and a decrease in dyspnoea following drainage. Baseline MBS score ≥ 4 and a fully drained effusion were significant correlated with a minimal important improvement in dyspnoea (OR 3.86 (1.42-10.50), <i>p</i> = 0.01 and 2.86 (1.03-7.93), <i>p</i> = 0.04, respectively).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In our study population, US-characteristics including assessment of diaphragm movement or shape was not associated with a minimal important improvement in dyspnoea immediately following thoracentesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":11872,"journal":{"name":"European Clinical Respiratory Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"2337446"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11073413/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140862400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adult-onset asthma, allergy, and aspirin hypersensitivity associate with self-reported food avoidance.","authors":"Marie Lundberg, Helena Voutilainen, Annina Lyly, Jussi Karjalainen, Heini Huhtala, Tanya M Laidlaw, Stella E Lee, Mikko Nuutinen, Sanna Toppila-Salmi","doi":"10.1080/20018525.2024.2347073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20018525.2024.2347073","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The adoption of avoidance diets by adult-onset asthmatics has not previously been studied. We hypothesized that avoidance diets would associate with adult-onset asthma, allergy, and aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A total of 1247 subjects with adult-onset asthma (age range: 31-91) from the Finnish national registry, and age- and sex-matched controls (<i>n</i> = 1970) participated in a questionnaire study in 1997. We estimated the association between asthma/allergy/AERD and avoidance diets, adjusting for potential confounding factors and validated the results in two retrospective cohorts of 5080 rhinitis/rhinosinusitis patients and 167 AERD patients from 2019 to 2020.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The presence of asthma positively associated with adoption of any avoidance diet (adjusted OR [CI95%] 1.24 [1.02-1.51], <i>p</i> = 0.029) as did allergic disease and self-reported AERD within the asthmatic group (1.79 [1.29-2.48], <i>p</i> = 0.001 and 1.69 [1.15-2.49], <i>p</i> = 0.007, respectively). Asthmatics and allergic asthmatics were more likely to report avoidance of fish, fruits and vegetables, and spices (<i>p</i> ≤ 0.03) compared to controls and non-allergic asthmatics. The adjusted OR for multiple diets among AERD patients was 2.57 [1.34-4.95] <i>p</i> = 0.005. In the validation, 26.2% of the allergic asthmatics and 10.8% of AERD patients had documented avoidance diets.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our study shows a positive association between avoidance diets and adult-onset asthma, and with allergic disease or AERD within asthmatic patients. Although we lack information on the reason patients chose to observe a specific diet, our results reinforce the importance of asking patients about their diet and if needed, giving dietary advice for adult asthma patients to help them avoid the adoption of unnecessarily restrictive diets.</p>","PeriodicalId":11872,"journal":{"name":"European Clinical Respiratory Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"2347073"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11067555/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140852910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Case series of complicated bronchopulmonary lophomoniasis. Differential diagnosis of tuberculosis?","authors":"Cristian Morán-Mariños, Juan Salas López, Felix Llanos-Tejada, Renato Casanova-Mendoza, Renzo Villanueva-Villegas, Antonella Chavez-Huamani, Kenneth G Vargas-Ponce, Margaret Condori-Zevallos","doi":"10.1080/20018525.2024.2325170","DOIUrl":"10.1080/20018525.2024.2325170","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pulmonary lophomoniasis is a rare and life-threatening disease, most commonly reported across Asian and Latin American countries. Here, we have reported two cases of pulmonary lophomoniasis presenting with atypical manifestations. Case #1 represents a 19-year-old male patient with clinical characteristics suggestive of tuberculosis, presenting with hemoptysis and receiving antituberculosis treatment. Case #2 represents a 69-year-old man with post-tuberculosis pulmonary disease with cystic bronchiectasis presenting with polymicrobial co-infection. Based on our case experience, lophomoniasis should be considered in patients with pneumonia who do not respond to antibiotic treatment, and the corresponding epidemiological factors should be carefully considered in addition to bronchoscopy for precise diagnosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":11872,"journal":{"name":"European Clinical Respiratory Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"2325170"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10919296/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140058978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Incidental pulmonary nodules may lead to a high proportion of early-stage lung cancer: but it requires more than a high CT volume to achieve this.","authors":"M Borg, U Bodtger, K Kristensen, G Alstrup, T Mamaeva, A Arshad, C B Laursen, O Hilberg, M Brun Andersen, T Riis Rasmussen","doi":"10.1080/20018525.2024.2313311","DOIUrl":"10.1080/20018525.2024.2313311","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The management of pulmonary nodules plays a critical role in early detection of lung cancer. Computed tomography (CT) has led to a stage-shift towards early-stage lung cancer, but regional differences in survival rates have been reported in Denmark. This study aimed to evaluate whether variations in nodule management among Danish health regions contributed to these differences.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>The Danish Health Data Authority and Danish Lung Cancer Registry provided data on CT usage and lung cancer stage distribution, respectively. Auditing of lung cancer stage IA patient referrals and nodule management of stage IV lung cancer patients was conducted in seven Danish lung cancer investigation centers, covering four of the five Danish health regions. CT scans were performed up to 2 years before the patients' diagnosis from 2019 to 2021.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>CT usage has increased steadily in Denmark over the past decade, with a simultaneous increase in the proportion of early-stage lung cancers, particularly stage IA. However, one Danish health region, Region Zealand, exhibited lower rates of early-stage lung cancer and overall survival despite a CT usage roughly similar to that of the other health regions. The audit did not find significant differences in pulmonary nodule management or a higher number of missed nodules by radiologists in this region compared to others.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study suggests that a high CT scan volume alone is not sufficient for the early detection of lung cancer. Factors beyond hospital management practices, such as patient-related delays in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas, may contribute to regional differences in survival rates. This has implications for future strategies for reducing these differences.</p>","PeriodicalId":11872,"journal":{"name":"European Clinical Respiratory Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"2313311"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10878329/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139912366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"National survey on management of spontaneous pneumothorax from emergency department to specialised treatment: room for improvement.","authors":"Søren Helbo Skaarup, Christian B Laursen, Rob J Hallifax, Beenish Iqbal, Uffe Bødtger","doi":"10.1080/20018525.2024.2307648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20018525.2024.2307648","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Spontaneous pneumothorax (SP) affects both young, otherwise healthy individuals and older persons with known underlying pulmonary disease. Initial management possibilities are evolving and range from observation to chest tube insertion. SP guidelines suggest an individualized approach based on multiple factors such as symptoms, size of pneumothorax, comorbidity and patient preference.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>With this Danish national survey we aimed to map organization of care including involved specialties, treatment choice, training, and follow-up plans to identify aspects, and optimization of spontaneous pneumothorax management.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A survey developed by the national interest group for pleural medicine was sent to all departments of emergency medicine, thoracic surgery, respiratory medicine, and to relevant departments of abdominal or orthopaedic surgery.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The response rate was 75 % (47 of 65). Overall, 21% of responding departments had no guideline for SP management, which was provided by multiple specialties with marked heterogeneity in choice of treatment including tube size, management during admission, and referral procedure to follow-up. Few departments required procedure training, and nearly all of the responders called for improvements in management of pneumothorax.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This survey suggests that SP management and care is delivered heterogeneously across Danish hospitals with marked difference between respiratory physicians, emergency physicians, general surgeons and thoracic surgeons. It is therefore likely that management is sub-optimal. There is a need for a common Danish SP guideline to ensure optimal treatment across involved specialties.</p>","PeriodicalId":11872,"journal":{"name":"European Clinical Respiratory Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"2307648"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10833110/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139671474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration using the bronchial ultrasound scope (EUS-B-FNA) for diagnosing pancreatic metastasis in a lung cancer patient case report.","authors":"Abdul Khaliq Ahmad, Arman Arshad, Christian B Laursen, Vasiliki Panou","doi":"10.1080/20018525.2023.2294545","DOIUrl":"10.1080/20018525.2023.2294545","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy (EUS-FNA) of the pancreas is performed routinely in many endoscopic centers as part of the diagnostic set-up for suspected pancreatic cancer. The use of transesophageal bronchoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-B-FNA) by pulmonologists has expanded significantly, since it enables effective diagnosis of lesions in the mediastinum and upper abdomen. The following case demonstrates the safety and feasibility of EUS-B-FNA in a patient with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cancer and a pancreatic mass of unknown origin. A patient who was previously diagnosed with NSCLC was referred to the Department of Respiratory Medicine, Odense University Hospital due to suspected recurrence of NSCLC. The patient underwent endobronchial ultrasound guided (EBUS)-FNA from several suspected mediastinal lymph nodes and combined EUS-B-FNA from a pancreatic mass during the same procedure. Pathology results from the pancreatic mass and from the mediastinal lymph nodes showed squamous-cell carcinoma, metastasis from the previous NSCLC. We here by demonstrated that EUS-B-FNA is a feasible and safe technique to obtain tissue samples from pancreatic lesions in patients under investigation for lung cancer.</p>","PeriodicalId":11872,"journal":{"name":"European Clinical Respiratory Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"2294545"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10763869/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139097625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A five-gene qPCR signature can classify type 2 asthma comparably to microscopy of induced sputum from severe asthma patients","authors":"B. Toennesen, J. M. Schmid, B. S. Sørensen, M. Fricker, H. J. Hoffmann","doi":"10.1080/20018525.2023.2293318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20018525.2023.2293318","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11872,"journal":{"name":"European Clinical Respiratory Journal","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138951701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prevalence of laryngotracheal lesions in tracheostomized COVID-19 patients. A comparison with a matched historical control group of non-COVID-19 patients","authors":"Juan Manuel Carballo, Antonela Vicente, Ladislao Diaz Ballve, María Paula Pedace, P. Tocalini, Eliana Pérez Calvo, Karen Torres, Fernando Planells, Dario Villalba","doi":"10.1080/20018525.2023.2283265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20018525.2023.2283265","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11872,"journal":{"name":"European Clinical Respiratory Journal","volume":"52 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138606558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Agreement between reported questionnaire data and medical records on diagnosis and COVID-19 symptoms at onset","authors":"M. Kisiel, Claes Kock, Josef Sultan, Helena Janols, Christer Janson, Ronnie Pingel","doi":"10.1080/20018525.2023.2282251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20018525.2023.2282251","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to assess whether there was agreement between self-reported data in a survey and medical records regarding diagnoses and symptoms at COVID-19 onset. The impact of sociodemographic factors on agreement between the two data sources was also assessed. Cross-sectional data were extracted from a Swedish longitudinal cohort study. In total, 401 non-hospitalized patients with a polymerase chain reaction-confirmed COVID-19 infection responded to a survey and agreed to a review of their electronic medical records. Agreement, estimated using the kappa statistic, sensitivity, and specificity were calculated for nine diagnoses and eleven symptoms. Differences between subgroups based on sociodemographic factors were assessed. The agreement between the self-reported data and medical records was at a substantial to moderate level for diagnoses such as diabetes mellitus (kappa 0.65, sensitivity 86%) and hypertension (kappa 0.59, sensitivity 56%) and at a fair level for more difficult-to-define conditions such as ongoing immunosuppressive treatment (kappa 0.27, sensitivity 25%). The agreement between the two data sources on symptoms was between fair and poor (kappa 0.36 for fever; kappa 0.05 for fatigue). Agreement for some diagnoses and symptoms varied across some sociodemographic subgroups, e.g. agreement in diabetes mellitus was significantly better in males (kappa 1.0) than females (kappa 0.52, homogeneity tests p = 0.02). In general, kappa values were lower for symptoms than diagnoses. The agreement between the two sources varied with diagnoses and symptoms and was also influenced by sociodemographic factors. This study illustrates that it is important to consider type of data used in the epidemiological studies as different information sources differ with quality and accuracy.","PeriodicalId":11872,"journal":{"name":"European Clinical Respiratory Journal","volume":"57 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139262210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}