Treatment options in stage III non-small cell lung cancer.

Lung cancer is responsible for over 1 million deaths annually, worldwide. The disease becomes symptomatic in advanced stages, so the diagnosis is delayed and 90% of cases cannot benefit from a curative treatment. In NSCLC surgical resection represents the best option for long term survival in resectable stage III and in clinical stage I/II.

Sarcoidosis and Aspergillosis: case presentation.

Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology, characterized by noncaseous epithelioid cell granulomas. The evolution of the disease may be complicated by opportunistic infections such as aspergillosis, that usually appears in type IV sarcoidosis. We present the case of a 74 year-old women with a history of sarcoidosis for over 7 years, who presented for hemoptysis.

Paraneoplastic syndromes: the way to an early diagnosis of lung cancer.

Pulmonary malignancies are the leading cause of cancer mortality around the world. The late diagnosis of lung cancer, in advanced stages, is mainly due to atypical clinical presentation. Paraneoplastic syndromes have been first described in 1825, as a group of symptoms related to a malignant disease, which are not the effect of the primary neither of the metastatic tumor.

Clinical characteristics of obese patients with hypertension and chronic ischemic heart disease.

Unlabelled: Obesity is a risk factor for arterial hypertension, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Some studies reported an obesity paradox: obese patients with cardiovascular diseases have better prognosis than patients with body mass index BMI <25 kg/m2. The objective of the study was to identify the differences between the clinical characteristics of obese hypertensive patients with chronic ischemic heart disease in comparison with lean hypertensive patients with chronic ischemic heart disease.

Unilateral pulmonary hilar tumor mass: is it always lung cancer?

Sarcoidosis is a multisystem inflammatory disease of unknown etiology, characterized by noncaseating epithelioid cell granulomas. In sarcoidosis, the most common radiological findings are mediastinal and bilateral hilar lymph node enlargement. We present a case of sarcoidosis with a rare radiological aspect of pulmonary hilar tumor mass.

The contribution of exercise testing in the prescription and outcome evaluation of exercise training in pulmonary rehabilitation.

Pulmonary rehabilitation is a comprehensive therapeutic intervention with proven efficacy in relieving symptoms and increasing exercise tolerance in patients with chronic respiratory diseases.One of the main components of a pulmonary rehabilitation program is lower limbs exercise training. There are several ways of establishing the optimal intensity of the exercise training, using the target heart rate, symptom scores, walking tests and laboratory exercise tests with or without ventilation or gas exchange measurements.