Publications by authors named "D Bouros"
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- Depression and anxiety are common issues for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), negatively impacting their quality of life, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- A study aimed to evaluate how COVID-19 vaccination affects these mental health issues in IPF patients, using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) to measure changes before and after vaccination.
- Results showed a significant improvement in both anxiety and depression scores one month after vaccination, indicating that the vaccine may have beneficial effects on mental health for IPF patients, regardless of factors like age or previous mental health history.
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- Tumor-like lesions at the craniovertebral junction can present similarly to tumors, and this study analyzes common types like epidermoids, dermoids, and neurenteric cysts through a retrospective review of 170 patients across 119 reports.
- Neurenteric cysts were the most prevalent (81.2%), and complications occurred in 27.2% of cases, with 75.2% of patients having excellent outcomes and low recurrence rates (12%).
- The research highlights the significance of total resection in reducing recurrence and emphasizes that factors like patient age, associated anomalies, and preoperative planning greatly impact surgical results.
Objective: Monocyte count and red cell distribution width (RDW) have shown prognostic potential in patients with fibrotic lung diseases. Their kinetics and prognostic usefulness of peripheral blood indices in patients with interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) undergoing surgical lung biopsy for diagnostic reasons have not been studied.
Patients And Methods: We retrospectively included consecutive patients with ILD who underwent surgical lung biopsy for diagnostic purposes Between 07/11/2019 and 11/10/2022.
Presenting clinical and imaging features of patients with clinically amyopathic interstitial lung disease associated with myositis-specific autoantibodies.
Front Med (Lausanne)
April 2024
Background: Lung involvement in the context of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies has significant impact on outcome; early and accurate diagnosis is important but can be difficult to achieve. In particular, patients without clinically evident muscle involvement pose a significant diagnostic challenge.
Methods: A computer-assisted search was conducted to identify patients with amyopathic interstitial lung disease associated with the presence of myositis-specific autoantibodies.