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Relationship between electrocardiographic interatrial obstructs and echocardiographic indices associated with still left atrial purpose within severe coronary heart malfunction.
Prone positioning is a well-known supportive maneuver to improve oxygenation for patients with moderate to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Although this technique is usually performed to sedated patients on invasive mechanical ventilation, it has been used in non-intubated patients frequently during the coronavirus diseases-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Favorable outcomes have been reported mainly in combining the prone positioning with high flow nasal cannula (HFNC) or non-invasive ventilation (NIV). Due to limited data, a standard approach for the awake prone positioning has not yet been defined. In this manuscript, we reviewed the literature data about prone positioning in non-intubated patients with COVID-19. According to available literature data, we concluded that prone positioning in non-intubated COVID-19 patients may improve oxygenation and prevent the need for invasive mechanical ventilation. But the efficacy is still controversial in the early stage of the disease due to pulmonary mechanics. Further studies are needed to the defined optimal approach of awake prone positioning in COVID-19 patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure.Asthma is a common chronic pulmonary disease worldwide. Inhaled glucocorticoids are the most effective therapeutic agents in treatment of asthma and are therefore the first drug of choice in asthma treatment. Antileukotrienes are alternative controller drugs in management of asthma especially in patients who cannot use inhaled glucocorticoids effectively due to compliance problems or poor inhaler techniques.Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor is a neoplasia of unknown clinical etiology that clinically and radiologically tends to mimic a malignant neoplasm. The tumor is histologically composed of a mixture of inflammatory cells, myofibroblastic spindle cells and plasma cells. It can occur in any part of the body. Although pulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor is the most common primary lung mass especially in childhood, this entity is usually not considered in differential diagnosis of lung nodules or masses. In this article, we aimed to disscus the pathology and imaging findings of the pulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor and increase the familiarity of radiologists and clinicians to this entity.Pneumococcal infections are an important cause of mortality and morbidity in Chronic Lung Diseases. GSK2110183 However, exacerbations, which make the treatment of diseases very difficult, and corticosteroids used during treatment carry a great risk of pneumococcal infection and adversely affect the treatment. The most rational way to reduce the negative impact of pneumococcal infections on the clinical and economic burden of Chronic Lung Diseases is vaccination of the risky population. Although, vaccination recommendations are well defined, recommended by national and international guidelines and are paid by health authorities, in Turkey, vaccination rates in adults with chronic lung disease is far below the expected. Since physicians are considered to be the most important and reliable resource that can guide their patients in vaccination, applying pneumococcal vaccination routinely in all patients with chronic lung diagnosis and making it a part of daily practice will greatly contribute to reducing the clinical and economic burden of pneumococcal infections in these patients. In this review, the effects of pneumococcal diseases on chronic lung diseases, the risk and clinical burden of pneumococcal diseases in chronic lung diseases are discussed in the light of guidelines and current literature, and the importance of protection from pneumonia in these patients is emphasized. In addition to general information and efficacy data about pneumococcal vaccines available in our country, application methods and access routes to vaccines are also described.
Primary aim of this study is to determine the financial burden of Vitamin K Antagonists (VKA), low molecular weight heparins (LMWH) and new oral anticoagulants (NOAC) which are used in the treatment of the pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE). Secondary aim is to show long term complications of the treatment options.

The patients who are diagnosed with PTE between May 2016 and March 2018 at Faculty of Medicine Karadeniz Technical University Hospital were observed prospectively. Hospitalization costs were calculated on patients who were treated only for PTE by hospitalized in the Chest Diseases Service in the acute period. Maintenance costs were calculated over all patients who regulary admitted to our outpatient clinic with the diagnosis of PTE. Data were presented as mean ± SD and median ± interquartilee range. A p-value of <0.05 was accepted to be significant.

Fifty five (37.2%) of the patients were male, 93 (62.8%) were female and the median age was 68 (range 18-95). The median hospitalization time and cost of patients who are discharged with VKA (n 22) compared with patients discharged with LMWH (n 22) was found to be increased (1316.82 TL 7,5 days / 803.36 TL, 5 days p<0.001). Statistical analysis could not be performed with NOAC (n 2). In the analysis of sixth month costs, LMWH cost was found to be higher than VKA cost (6.927.15 ± 2.687.67 TL/698.29 ± 483.51 TL p<0.001). However VKA treatment tended to be less expensive than treatment with NOACs (698.29 ± 483.51 TL/1.050.81 ± 300.28 TL p= 0.140).

In the acute period of PTE, VKA increases the length of hospitalization and hospital costs in patients treated at the hospital. In the maintenance period, VKA tends to have a lower cost compared to NOACs.
In the acute period of PTE, VKA increases the length of hospitalization and hospital costs in patients treated at the hospital. In the maintenance period, VKA tends to have a lower cost compared to NOACs.
Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is a well-established diagnostic tool for lung cancer, sarcoidosis, and suspected metastatic extra-thoracic malignancy (ETM). Patients with primary ETM often have hypermetabolic mediastinal/hilar lymph node enlargement in the PET-scan done for initial staging or post treatment followup. We aimed to determine the diagnostic performance of EBUS-TBNA and the relationship between PET-SUV values and diagnosis of malignancy metastasis in patients with ETM.

Results of EBUS-TBNA in ETM patients with suspected MLN metastasis were retrospectively analysed (May 2016 to July 2019). Non-malign results were confirmed for surgery or clinical/radiological followup. Lymph nodes with a high FDG-uptake (SUV > 2.5, MLN) were reported as suspicious for metastasis.

Of the 588 EBUS procedures, 109 were included in the analysis. Patient' mean age was 62.5 ± 10.1 years; there were 35 men and 74 women. Primary malignancies were breast cancer in 33, gastrointestinal in 23, female genital tract in 17, head and neck in 14, genitourinary cancer in 13, malignant melanoma in 6, sarcoma in 2 and kaposi sarcoma in 1.
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