PneumologiePub Date : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1055/a-2129-3575
Melanie Berger, Maximilian Zimmermann, Michael Kreuter, Johannes Strunk, Wolfram Windisch, Jakob Höppner, Ilka Plath, Falk Schumacher
{"title":"[Pulmonary involvement in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies].","authors":"Melanie Berger, Maximilian Zimmermann, Michael Kreuter, Johannes Strunk, Wolfram Windisch, Jakob Höppner, Ilka Plath, Falk Schumacher","doi":"10.1055/a-2129-3575","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2129-3575","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies are rare systemic diseases with different types of pulmonary manifestations depending on the underlying aetiology; here, interstitial lung diseases (ILD) are the most frequently found patterns depending on the underlying disorder. There is a lack of sufficient prospective studies on this heterogeneous group of patients, particularly in case of ILD being involved. The diagnosis is based upon guideline recommendations for ILD and requires a multidisciplinary discussion within a team with specific expertise in this field. Myositis specific antibodies and myositis associated antibodies form an essential part of the diagnostic tools and may also be associated with a certain phenotype or disease progression. Anti-t-RNA-synthetase antibodies (Anti-ARS) and anti-melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 antibodies (MDA5) play an important clinical role for treatment the estimation of response and prognosis. The most common ILD patterns are nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) and organising pneumonia (OP) or a mixed pattern of both. Treatment is based on systemic steroids and early initiation of other immunosuppressant drugs. Evidence for this is, however, sparse, since most of the studies having investigated treatment modalities are of retrospective nature, even though some new prospective data may be useful for the establishment of treatment pathways in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":20197,"journal":{"name":"Pneumologie","volume":" ","pages":"167-179"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10112072","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}
PneumologiePub Date : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1055/a-2161-5792
Martin Kimmich, Maja Jakob
{"title":"[Carcinoma, tuberculosis, atypical pneumonia - or may be pulmonary tularemia? Two case reports].","authors":"Martin Kimmich, Maja Jakob","doi":"10.1055/a-2161-5792","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2161-5792","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tularemia is a rare zoonotic disease, endemic in rural areas all over Germany. It's clinical manifestation following inhalation of infectious aerosols may resemble pulmonary neoplasia, other atypical pneumonias or tuberculosis. Here we describe two representative cases with pulmonary tularemia.</p>","PeriodicalId":20197,"journal":{"name":"Pneumologie","volume":" ","pages":"199-203"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49681335","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}
PneumologiePub Date : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2024-02-26DOI: 10.1055/a-2259-1046
Dirk Skowasch, Francesco Bonella, Katharina Buschulte, Nikolaus Kneidinger, Peter Korsten, Michael Kreuter, Joachim Müller-Quernheim, Michael Pfeifer, Antje Prasse, Bernd Quadder, Oliver Sander, Jonas C Schupp, Helmut Sitter, Bernd Stachetzki, Christian Grohé
{"title":"[Therapeutic Pathways in Sarcoidosis. A Position Paper of the German Society of Respiratory Medicine (DGP)].","authors":"Dirk Skowasch, Francesco Bonella, Katharina Buschulte, Nikolaus Kneidinger, Peter Korsten, Michael Kreuter, Joachim Müller-Quernheim, Michael Pfeifer, Antje Prasse, Bernd Quadder, Oliver Sander, Jonas C Schupp, Helmut Sitter, Bernd Stachetzki, Christian Grohé","doi":"10.1055/a-2259-1046","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2259-1046","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present recommendations on the therapy of sarcoidosis of the German Respiratory Society (DGP) was written in 2023 as a German-language supplement and update of the international guidelines of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) from 2021. It contains 5 PICO questions (Patients, Intervention, Comparison, Outcomes) agreed in the consensus process, which are explained in the background text of the four articles: Confirmation of diagnosis and monitoring of the disease under therapy, general therapy recommendations, therapy of cutaneous sarcoidosis, therapy of cardiac sarcoidosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":20197,"journal":{"name":"Pneumologie","volume":" ","pages":"151-166"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139973122","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}
PneumologiePub Date : 2024-02-21DOI: 10.1055/a-2238-4253
Dominic Dellweg, Georg Nilius, Achim Grünewaldt, Andreas Günther, Matthias Held, Martin Hetzel, Andreas Schlesinger, Robin Schlott, Georgios Sofianos, Markus Unnewehr, Thomas Voshaar, Winfried Randerath
{"title":"[Task Force Dyspnoe unit (DU)].","authors":"Dominic Dellweg, Georg Nilius, Achim Grünewaldt, Andreas Günther, Matthias Held, Martin Hetzel, Andreas Schlesinger, Robin Schlott, Georgios Sofianos, Markus Unnewehr, Thomas Voshaar, Winfried Randerath","doi":"10.1055/a-2238-4253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2238-4253","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Acute dyspnoea is one of the most common internal medicine symptoms in the emergency department. It arises from an acute illness or from the exacerbation of a chronic illness. Symptom-related emergency structures and corresponding structural guidelines already exist in the stroke and chest pain units for dealing with the leading symptoms of acute stroke and acute chest pain. These are lacking in Germany for the key symptom of dyspnoea, although the benefits of these structures have already been proven in other countries. The German Society for Pneumology and Respiratory Medicine (DGP) has now set up a task force together with the Association of Pneumology Clinics (VPK), in order to deal with the topic and develop appropriate structural guidelines for such \"dyspnoea units\" in Germany. At the end of the process, the certification of such units at German hospitals is optional.</p>","PeriodicalId":20197,"journal":{"name":"Pneumologie","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139932489","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}
PneumologiePub Date : 2024-02-01Epub Date: 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1055/a-2183-7489
Ulrich Koehler, Mikail Aykut Degerli, Olaf Hildebrandt, Regina Conradt, Julian Koehler
{"title":"[From \"processing\" and \"fermentation\" to oxidative metabolism].","authors":"Ulrich Koehler, Mikail Aykut Degerli, Olaf Hildebrandt, Regina Conradt, Julian Koehler","doi":"10.1055/a-2183-7489","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2183-7489","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The theory of the four humors or humorism (Hippocrates of Kos) viewed disease as an imbalance of the humors. Galen of Pergamon further developed the theory by describing digestion as a sequence of chemical reduction processes that convert into the various humours. Theophrastus von Hohenheim attempted to overcome humorism in the 16th century and establish medicine on a natural-philosophical-alchemical basis. The era of empirical-experimental chemically oriented medicine began with \"iatrochemistry\" in the 17th century. Franciscus Sylvius' concept of disease is based on an imbalance of acidic and alkaline fermentation. It was Lazarro Spallanzani who understood the digestive processes in the stomach as a chemical dissolution of food. The discovery of oxygen and the process of oxidation by Lavoisier laid the foundation for our understanding the physiology of metabolism.</p>","PeriodicalId":20197,"journal":{"name":"Pneumologie","volume":" ","pages":"131-134"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49681337","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}
PneumologiePub Date : 2024-02-01Epub Date: 2023-12-11DOI: 10.1055/a-2193-0966
Thomas Bitter, Tielko Seeba, Jörn Schroeder-Richter, Michael Fröhlich, Wissam Duaer, Wael Abidi, Markus Peter Kindermann
{"title":"[4D electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy for the diagnosis of peripheral pulmonary nodules - An overview and preliminary clinical results].","authors":"Thomas Bitter, Tielko Seeba, Jörn Schroeder-Richter, Michael Fröhlich, Wissam Duaer, Wael Abidi, Markus Peter Kindermann","doi":"10.1055/a-2193-0966","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2193-0966","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The diagnostic of peripheral pulmonary nodules (PPN) is a particular challenge in interventional bronchology, which is why navigation systems such as electromagnetic navigation (ENB) are increasingly being used. The 4D-ENB represents the most current development of the ENB. It utilizes inspiratory and expiratory CT scans for mapping and thus helps compensate for respiratory movements-induced CT-to-body divergence. The aim of this work was to present the first clinical data and experiences using the 4D-ENB method for diagnosis of PPNs.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We retrospectively describe the results of the first nine consecutive patient cases diagnosed at Klinikum Braunschweig using 4D-ENB in a unimodal diagnostic procedure.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the first 9 PPNs examined by 4D-ENB, navigation and puncture of the lesion was successful in 8 patients (89%). Diagnostic biopsy was could be carried out in six out of nine patients (67%). There were no significant procedure-related complications.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our preliminary data suggest that 4D-ENB is a promising new alternative for the diagnosis of PPNs. To further improve diagnostic yield, 4D-END, which lacks real-time visualization, should be embedded in a multimodal diagnostic procedure with rEBUS and/or fluoroscopy.</p>","PeriodicalId":20197,"journal":{"name":"Pneumologie","volume":" ","pages":"93-99"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138808852","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}
PneumologiePub Date : 2024-02-01Epub Date: 2024-01-29DOI: 10.1055/a-2215-3236
Anja Flender, Wolfram Windisch, Monika Gappa
{"title":"[Dual Membership: German Respiratory Society and European Respiratory Society (ERS)].","authors":"Anja Flender, Wolfram Windisch, Monika Gappa","doi":"10.1055/a-2215-3236","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2215-3236","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20197,"journal":{"name":"Pneumologie","volume":" ","pages":"89-92"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139576506","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}
PneumologiePub Date : 2024-02-01Epub Date: 2024-01-08DOI: 10.1055/a-2215-3067
Mercedes Rutsch, Per Otto Schüller, Heike Buhr-Schinner, Thomas Gross, Ruth Deck
{"title":"[Pneumological Rehabilitation in Long COVID - A Comparative Exploratory Longitudinal Study of Long COVID and Asthma/COPD Rehabilitees].","authors":"Mercedes Rutsch, Per Otto Schüller, Heike Buhr-Schinner, Thomas Gross, Ruth Deck","doi":"10.1055/a-2215-3067","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2215-3067","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>For some COVID-19 patients, symptoms and health impairments persist for an extended period of time (long COVID). Long-term consequences of the disease can lead to permanent limitations in participatory life. In these cases, medical rehabilitation may be useful. Due to the novelty of the disease, little is known about the need for rehabilitation and therapy and the health benefits of specific rehabilitation interventions.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A multicentre longitudinal observational study was conducted. Persons affected by long COVID (LC) between 18 and 65 years of age undergoing pulmonary rehabilitation were included. An age-matched comparison group (CG) consisted of rehabilitation patients with bronchial asthma and COPD. Written questionnaires were administered at the beginning and end of rehabilitation, as well as six and twelve months after rehabilitation. Outcomes included parameters of subjective health, occupational outcomes, contents of rehabilitation and rehabilitation aftercare.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The sample consisted of 305 participants, of whom 172 were classified as LC and 133 as CG. In the total sample, one third of the participants were male and the average age was 53 years. All rehabilitation participants had high health burdens, LC patients had statistically significantly higher impairments in almost all outcomes recorded. At the beginning of rehabilitation, one third of the respondents were on sick leave, more often in LC than in the CG. Twelve months after rehabilitation, both groups achieved significant health improvement, with LC showing greater improvements in most outcomes (interaction effect p<0.01). Despite success in most parameters, LC patients still showed persistent COVID symptoms at twelve months. One year after rehabilitation, 89% returned to work.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The majority of rehabilitation patients benefit greatly from pulmonary medical rehabilitation in terms of health and occupation. The content of pulmonary rehabilitation seems to be suitable for this indication group; however, there is an indication-specific use of therapy between CG and LC group. As a result, the LC group seems to need more and different therapies.</p>","PeriodicalId":20197,"journal":{"name":"Pneumologie","volume":" ","pages":"107-119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139404095","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}
PneumologiePub Date : 2024-02-01Epub Date: 2024-02-16DOI: 10.1055/a-2229-3854
Dominic Dellweg, Philipp M Lepper
{"title":"[Technical aspects and innovations in non-invasive and invasive ventilation].","authors":"Dominic Dellweg, Philipp M Lepper","doi":"10.1055/a-2229-3854","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2229-3854","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Non-invasive and invasive ventilation have become essential for therapy in acute and chronic respiratory failure. More than one-third of patients in intensive care units receive invasive ventilation, and the number of ventilated patients in out-of-hospital care is also steadily increasing. While normalization of blood gases was considered the most significant goal in past decades, and the idea that mechanical ventilation also poses dangers played little role, the dominant thought at present is the application of ventilation from the most protective point of view possible. Because fundamental change in equipment technology is likely to be difficult, improvement of protective ventilation and further development of understanding of pathophysiologic processes in acute and chronic respiratory failure will continue to be of great importance in the future. This article summarizes different aspects of the technical basis of noninvasive and invasive ventilation and their practical implementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":20197,"journal":{"name":"Pneumologie","volume":"78 2","pages":"120-130"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139747267","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}
PneumologiePub Date : 2024-02-01Epub Date: 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1055/a-2161-5866
Lea Madeleine Heiland, Rudolf Jörres, Sebastian Engelhardt, Peter Alter, Kathrin Kahnert, Jens Deerberg-Wittram, Thomas Unterweger, Stephan Budweiser
{"title":"[Retrospective clinical-causal evaluation of a positive PCR for SARS-CoV-2 in hospitalised patients across the age spectrum in a primary care hospital].","authors":"Lea Madeleine Heiland, Rudolf Jörres, Sebastian Engelhardt, Peter Alter, Kathrin Kahnert, Jens Deerberg-Wittram, Thomas Unterweger, Stephan Budweiser","doi":"10.1055/a-2161-5866","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2161-5866","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>It is often discussed that a positive PCR for SARS-CoV-2 in hospitalized patients may not be causally linked to the hospital stay, but no scientific data are available from Germany. Therefore, we analyzed to what extent a positive PCR test could be assessed as causal or secondary to admission according to clinical criteria in a tertiary care hospital of the first 4 months of 2022.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>SARS-CoV-2-positive patients of RoMed-Klinikum Rosenheim/Bavaria from 01/01/2022 to 30/04/2022 were included. Patients were divided into a group with COVID-19 as direct reason for admission (CAW), and a group, in which this did not apply according to a comprehensive clinical assessment (nCAW). Patients with no clear allocation to these groups were counted separately. Categorization was based on a multilevel procedure and performed by an internist experienced in COVD-19 (M.H.). It included all available clinical, radiological, and laboratory findings as well as treatment decisions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>647 cases were included (age 10 days to 101 years, median 68 years; 49.5% women), including 13 patients in two admissions with positive PCR. 45.3% (n=293) were attributable to the group with COVID as the reason for admission, 48.8% (n=316) were not, no clear decision could be made in 35 patients, 3 patients were transferred from other clinics for isolation. In infants (up to 1 year), a positive PCR test was more frequently categorized as causative than in older patients. Leading symptoms of classification were found to be fatigue/fatigue, fever/chills, and cough on admission. Febrile convulsions accounted for the reason for admission in 10 cases of children (age 1.1-7.6 years). Length of stay did not differ significantly between groups (median (quartiles) 5 (2; 10) days for CAW, 5 (2; 12) for nCAW), nor did in-hospital mortality and median age of deceased or survivors.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>A retrospective analysis of all clinical data revealed that positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR played a major and - according to clinical criteria - causative role for admission and hospitalization in nearly 50% of cases, whereas it was an incidental finding in just under 50%. These results confirm data from other countries and demonstrate that the role of a positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR test for hospitalization can only be answered by a comprehensive and elaborate analysis of individual data.</p>","PeriodicalId":20197,"journal":{"name":"Pneumologie","volume":" ","pages":"100-106"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49681340","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}