Publications by authors named "A Lenferink"
Personalizing Self-Management Interventions in COPD - Looking Beyond One-Size-Fits-All.
Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis
January 2025
Introduction: Patients' adherence is essential for COPD self-management, as beneficial effects can only be expected in adherent patients. We explored associations between patients' adherence to COPD exacerbation action plans and health outcomes.
Materials And Methods: Pooled COPD self-treatment intervention group data from two RCTs were analysed, only including patients who had ≥1 COPD exacerbation or started ≥1 course of oral corticosteroids over one-year follow-up.
Article Synopsis
- Leukemia is a group of bone marrow tumors characterized by rapid cell growth, and current diagnosis methods rely on slow visual inspection of blood samples to identify subtypes.
- The study presents a novel approach using Raman hyperspectral imaging to analyze bone marrow samples from 19 patients with different leukemia subtypes, capturing over 1.3 million cell spectra.
- The automated analysis revealed distinct cellular components and created high-quality images at the single-cell level, demonstrating Raman imaging's potential in enhancing leukemia research despite some challenges with the clustering process.
Background: Due to shared symptoms, acute heart failure (AHF) is difficult to differentiate from an acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD). This systematic review aimed to identify markers that can diagnose AHF underlying acute dyspnea in patients with COPD presenting at the hospital.
Methods: All types of observational studies and clinical trials that investigated any marker's ability to diagnose AHF in acutely dyspneic COPD patients were considered eligible for inclusion.