Chronic rhinosinusitis: phenotypes and endotypes.

Purpose Of Review: Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a broad classification of airway inflammation that affects a significant portion of the population. The current model of delineating patients suffering from CRS is dated and is no longer as simple as the presence of polyps or no polyps. Continued advances in the endotype descriptions of CRS have allowed for new phenotypic descriptions that aid in driving management and research efforts.

Flat sticker as a mobile airway foreign body: A case report and review of the literature.

Diagnosis of an airway foreign body in the setting of an unwitnessed aspiration event remains a challenge for physicians in the emergency setting. We describe a case of a 2-year-old male who presented to the emergency department with atypical symptoms resulting from ingestion and aspiration of a large, flat sticker. The airway foreign body remained in place for over 24 hours despite obtaining appropriate airway imaging, and the object was later removed without complication via rigid bronchoscopy in the operating room.

Association of Urine Albumin Excretion With Incident Heart Failure Hospitalization in Community-Dwelling Adults.

Objectives: This study examined the association between urinary albumin excretion and incident heart failure (HF) hospitalization.

Background: Excess urinary albumin excretion is more strongly associated with incident stroke and coronary heart disease risk in black than in white individuals. Whether similar associations extend to HF is unclear.