Assessment of radiation pneumonitis and predictive factors in patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer treated with chemoradiotherapy.

Purpose: Radiation pneumonitis (RP) is a dose-limiting toxicity associated with increased mortality for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with chemoradiotherapy (CRT). This study aims to assess the incidence of symptomatic RP (grade 2-5), rate of recovery and associated predictive factors.

Material And Methods: We performed a retrospective population-based study including 602 patients with NSCLC who were treated with CRT between 2002 and 2016.

Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in Sweden vs. Finland: benefits of population-wide screening.

Background And Aims: In 2006, screening of 65-year-old men for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) was started in Sweden. Decline in aneurysm-related mortality has been reported since, but aneurysm incidence has been diminishing globally. Neighbouring Finland with similar population structure and health care system has no AAA screening programme.

Sex-specific differences in alive hospital discharge following infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.

Background And Aims: A longer time to alive hospital discharge following infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair is associated with reduced patient-satisfaction and increased length of stay, hospital-acquired deconditioning, infection and costs. This study investigated sex-specific differences in, and drivers of, the rate of alive hospital discharge.

Methods: Examination of UK National Vascular Registry (UK NVR), 2014-2019 and Swedish National Patient Registry (SE NPR) elective AAA patients, 2010-2018, for endovascular (EVAR) or open (OAR) aneurysm repair.

The Outcome after Endovascular and Open Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms-A Binational Study Conducted between 1998 and 2017.

: We aimed to analyse patient outcomes following open (OAR) or endovascular repair (EVAR) of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in Finland and Sweden from 1998 to 2017. Both intact and ruptured AAAs (rAAAs) were included in the analysis. : Patient-level data from national registries in Finland and Sweden were analysed, pairing operations for intact and ruptured AAA repair with mortality data (date of death).