Publications by authors named "Lila Ricci"
Background: The incidence of anesthesia-induced atelectasis in children is high and closely related to episodes of hypoxemia. The Air-Test is a simple maneuver to detect lung collapse. By a step-reduction in FiO
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- Exaggerated lung strain and stress can harm the lungs of anesthetized children, particularly when capnoperitoneum (increased abdominal pressure) and lung collapse are involved during laparoscopic surgery.
- In a study with 20 healthy children aged 3 to 7, researchers measured the effects of capnoperitoneum on lung strain and stress, along with assessing individualized protective ventilation techniques.
- Results showed that during capnoperitoneum, lung strain and stress increased significantly; however, applying optimized PEEP helped in recruiting collapsed lungs and returned strain levels to baseline.
Background: Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) prevents peri-operative atelectasis in adults, but its effect in children has not been quantified.
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of CPAP in preventing postinduction and postoperative atelectasis in children under general anaesthesia.
Design: A randomised controlled study.
Background: Pulmonary atelectasis in anesthetized children is easily reverted by lung recruitment maneuvers. However, the high airways pressure reached during the maneuver could negatively affect hemodynamics. The aim of this study is to assess the effect and feasibility of a postural lung recruitment maneuver (P-RM); i.
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- The study aimed to evaluate how general anaesthesia and capnoperitoneum affect lung function in children undergoing laparoscopy, while exploring the effectiveness of lung recruitment manoeuvres.
- The researchers conducted a randomized controlled trial with 42 children, dividing them into two groups: one receiving standard ventilation and the other receiving lung recruitment manoeuvres before and during the procedure.
- Findings indicated that the group performing lung recruitment manoeuvres showed significant improvement in lung aeration during and after capnoperitoneum compared to the control group, highlighting the benefits of these manoeuvres in reducing lung collapse.
The traditional approach with microarray data has been to apply transformations that approximately normalize them, with the drawback of losing the original scale. The alternative stand point taken here is to search for models that fit the data, characterized by the presence of negative values, preserving their scale; one advantage of this strategy is that it facilitates a direct interpretation of the results. A new family of distributions named gpower-normal indexed by p∈R is introduced and it is proven that these variables become normal or truncated normal when a suitable gpower transformation is applied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Atelectasis after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) can affect right ventricular (RV) performance by increasing its outflow impedance.
Objective: The aim of this study was to determine whether a lung recruitment manoeuvre improves RV function by re-aerating the lung after CPB.
Design: Randomised controlled study.
Metallopanstimulin (MPS-1)/S27 ribosomal protein is involved in cellular proliferation and oncogenesis. In this study, we have examined the expression of the MPS-1 protein in 120 stages I and II breast carcinomas to study its relationship with breast cancer prognosis. We also determined if there was any relationship of MPS-1 with other biological markers commonly used in breast cancer prognosis.
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