Publications by authors named "Roger Sergysels"
Article Synopsis
- The hyperventilation provocation test (HPTest) is being re-evaluated for diagnosing idiopathic hyperventilation syndrome (HVS), especially in long-COVID patients, focusing on important PETCO2 values.
- A study involving 37 HVS patients and 37 healthy controls found that a specific PETCO2 change during the HPTest could accurately identify HVS with high sensitivity (0.92) and specificity (0.84).
- The research suggests that objective HPTest results should be prioritized over subjective symptoms for better diagnosis of HVS.
Background: Several phenotypes are described in COPD.
Objectives: To assess if COPD patients with Hoover's sign (HS) belong to a particular phenotype.
Methods: All consecutive COPD patients with varying degree of airflow obstruction that came for lung function testing in one university hospital were prospectively assessed, using clinical and magnetometer detection of HS, body mass index (BMI), St.
The combination of meropenem with clavulanate has high antimycobacterial activity in vitro against extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains. We report the successful use of this combination in association with linezolid in the management of an advanced extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis disease with complex second-line drug resistance in a 14-year-old teenager.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo date, the clinical use of unattended home-based polysomnography (PSG) is not recommended. To assess whether sleep efficiency is better at home, we have performed a prospective, crossover, single-blind study comparing unattended home- versus attended in-hospital PSG in a population referred for high clinical suspicion of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSA). Within 2 weeks, all the patients underwent both PSG performed by the same sleep technician, which were analysed by another blinded technician.
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