Post-traumatic stress among COVID-19 survivors: A descriptive study of hospitalized first-wave survivors.

Introduction: The coronavirus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Type 1 induces a severe respiratory disease, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). After Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Type 1 and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome infection, increased post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) rates were described.

Methods: This single-centred, prospective study aimed to evaluate the rates of PTSD in patients who were hospitalized for COVID-19.

High-resolution CT predictors of hypersensitivity pneumonitis.

Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of high-resolution chest computed tomography (HRCT) to distinguish hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) from other diffuse parenchymal lung diseases (DPLDs).

Methods: We examined 130 consecutive patients admitted to our hospital with DPLDs proved by HRCT. Patients underwent clinical and paraclinical examinations.

Effect of pulmonary arterial hypertension-specific therapies on health-related quality of life: a systematic review.

Background: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is severely impaired in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). We aimed to assess the effect of PAH-specific therapies on HRQoL.

Methods: A literature search was performed in MEDLINE and Embase databases (January 1990 to September 2013) to retrieve prospective placebo-controlled randomized trials of at least 6 weeks duration reporting the effect of PAH-specific therapies on HRQoL in adult patients with PAH.

Prone position and recruitment manoeuvre: the combined effect improves oxygenation.

Introduction: Among the various methods for improving oxygenation while decreasing the risk of ventilation-induced lung injury in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a ventilation strategy combining prone position (PP) and recruitment manoeuvres (RMs) can be practiced. We studied the effects on oxygenation of both RM and PP applied in early ARDS patients.

Methods: We conducted a prospective study.

[Acute respiratory failure and septic shock induced by Mycobacterium bovis. A rare side effect of intravesical BCG therapy].

Introduction: Intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) therapy, recommended for superficial bladder tumors, triggers side effects in fewer than 5% of patients. The most severe side effects, however, are septic shock and acute respiratory failure.

Case: A 70-year-old man was hospitalized for septic shock with acute respiratory and renal failure after intravesical instillation of BCG, which was identified in the gastric aspiration sample.