Lung Transplantation for Multiple Giant Hamartomas: First Case Report and Review of the Literature.

Background: To assess lung transplant as a solution for a rare complication of giant lung hamartoma, in which surgical resection was discouraged because of severe underlying chronic lung disease.

Methods: A 54-year-old woman had an episode of severe acute hemoptysis. Imaging techniques showed 2 masses in the right lung as hamartomas and severe pulmonary emphysema.

Comprehensive Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening and Testing Interventions in a Predominantly Heterosexual Population with HIV at a Health Center.

In the United States, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have remained elevated for the fifth consecutive year from 2015 to 2019. There is a need to implement standardization of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention STI screening and testing recommendations. Higher STI incidence populations such as people with HIV, men who have sex with men, and adolescents and young adults, are frequently not screened and tested for bacterial STIs as recommended.

Gastroesophageal Reflux and Esophageal Motility Disorder After Lung Transplant: Influence on the Transplanted Graft.

Background: Esophageal pathology has been identified as a bad prognostic factor in lung transplantation (LTx). This study aims to assess the esophageal disorders present post-LTx, under treatment with proton pump inhibitors, and their putative impact on the graft.

Methods: Prospective, observational study of LTx patients.

The effect of immediate postoperative Boussignac CPAP on adverse pulmonary events after thoracic surgery: A multicentre, randomised controlled trial.

Background: The effectiveness of prophylactic continuous positive pressure ventilation (CPAP) after thoracic surgery is not clearly established.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of CPAP immediately after lung resection either by thoracotomy or thoracoscopy in preventing atelectasis and pneumonia.

Design: A multicentre, randomised, controlled, open-label trial.

Pneumonia graft dysfunction as the cause of acute respiratory failure after lung transplant: a 4-year multicentre prospective study in 153 adults requiring intensive care admission.

We aimed to assess the main causes of intensive care unit (ICU) readmissions in lung transplant adults and to identify independent predictors of ICU mortality (primary end-point).This Spanish five-centre prospective cohort study enrolled all lung transplant adults with ICU readmissions after post-transplant ICU discharge between 2012 and 2016. Patients were followed until hospital discharge or death.