[Current status of lung cancer care in Germany in the context of treatment centralization and lack of personnel].

Introduction: Lung cancer is the malignancy with the highest mortality rate worldwide. In January 2025, the German public healthcare system will introduce a new regulation according to which a centre can offer surgery for lung cancer only if it carries out a minimum number of lung resections. The purpose of this directive is to reduce the number of centres offering surgical treatment for primary lung cancer, thus centralising and improving lung cancer care.

Thoracic skeletal muscle mass predicts mortality in patients with surgery for pleural empyema: A case control study.

Background: This study investigated the role of the thoracic skeletal muscle mass as a marker of sarcopenia on postoperative mortality in pleural empyema.

Methods: All consecutive patients (n = 103) undergoing surgery for pleural empyema in a single tertiary referral center between January 2020 and December 2022 were eligible for this study. Thoracic skeletal muscle mass index (TSMI) was determined from preoperative computed tomography scans.

UV light-mediated corneal crosslinking as (lymph)angioregressive pretreatment to promote graft survival after subsequent high-risk corneal transplantation (CrossCornealVision): protocol for a multicenter, randomized controlled trial.

Background: Good vision highly depends on the transparency of the cornea, which is the "windscreen" of the eye. In fact, corneal blindness due to transparency loss is the second most common cause of blindness worldwide, and corneal transplantation is the main cure. Importantly, the cornea is normally avascular but can secondarily be invaded by pathological (blood and lymphatic) vessels due to severe inflammation, and the survival prognosis of a corneal graft mainly depends on the preoperative vascular condition of the recipient's cornea.

Contribution of bacterial and host factors to pathogen "blooming" in a gnotobiotic mouse model for serovar Typhimurium-induced enterocolitis.

Inflammation has a pronounced impact on the intestinal ecosystem by driving an expansion of facultative anaerobic bacteria at the cost of obligate anaerobic microbiota. This pathogen "blooming" is also a hallmark of enteric serovar Typhimurium (. Tm) infection.

LASER FLARE PHOTOMETRY IN PRIMARY RHEGMATOGENOUS RETINAL DETACHMENT: An Evaluation of 2,487 Cases.

Purpose: Exploratory analysis associated with the prospective, multicenter, randomized PRIVENT trial. To characterize the associations between laser flare photometry and anatomical and epidemiological features of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD).

Methods: The authors measured laser flare values of all 3,048 prescreened patients excluding those with comorbidities.