Clinical performance and resource utilization in the start of a totally new Intensive Care Unit. Same staff, new area.

Background: There is little information of intensive care unit (ICU) performance when it's relocated to a totally new and equipped area.

Objective: To analyze the clinical performance and use of resources of a new respiratory-ICU (nRICU) in a large third-level care hospital.

Method: Cross-sectional, comparative study using prospective data of patients admitted from July 17, 2017 to July 17, 2018.

[Pulmonary mucormycosis in a patient with kidney transplant and uncontrolled haemoptysis].

Background: Pulmonary mucormycosis is a rare opportunistic infection with high mortality that is caused by species of Mucorales. The most common species involved are Rhizopus, Mucor, Lichtheimia, and Rhizomucor.

Case Report: A 56 year-old woman presented with a clinical history of diabetes mellitus type 2 and chronic renal disease.

Narrow-band imaging bronchoscopy in tracheobronchial amyloidosis.

Primary tracheobronchial amyloidosis (TBA) is a rare disease characterized by extracellular focal or diffuse submucosal deposits of amyloid proteins. Various types of endobronchial lesions have been described in TBA when bronchoscopy is performed using white light. Narrow-band imaging bronchoscopy has been mainly employed for detecting preneoplastic and neoplastic endobronchial lesions as it provides more detailed images of the microvasculature reflective of an altered angiogenesis process.

Pleomorphic adenoma of the trachea: A case report.

We present the case of a 33-year-old woman who was being treated for bronchial asthma for 4 years. A tracheal tumor was evident on a computed tomography of the thorax and removed with argon plasma coagulation. It was diagnosed as pleomorphic adenoma of the trachea.

[Bronchoscopy-guided percutaneous tracheostomy. A safe technique in intensive care].

Introduction: When compared with conventional surgery, bronchoscopy-guided percutaneous tracheostomy has demonstrated some advantages. We compare the results obtained with bronchoscopy-guided percutaneous tracheostomy performed by Intensive Care Unit personnel with those of conventional surgery.

Methods: Prospective and descriptive cohort of patients admitted to a respiratory intensive care unit from March 2010 to March 2012.

Proptosis during flexible bronchoscopy.

Bronchoscopy has been described as a safe procedure with a low rate of complications. We present a case of a 48-year-old woman who underwent flexible bronchoscopy for chronic cough. Immediately after the procedure, she developed proptosis of the left eye that required urgent attention.

Compartmentalized bronchoalveolar IFN-gamma and IL-12 response in human pulmonary tuberculosis.

Human tuberculosis (TB) principally involves the lungs, where local immunity impacts on the load of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb). Because concomitants of local Th1 immunity are still under-explored in humans, we characterized immune responses in bronchoalveolar cells (BACs) and systemically in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) in persons with active pulmonary TB and in healthy community controls.