Robotic Bronchoplasty for Iatrogenic Bronchial Rupture After Endotracheal Tube Placement.

The double-lumen endotracheal tube (DLT) was introduced by Carlens in 1949 and became widely used for single-lung ventilation. DLTs have since become standard for most pulmonary resections. Although the use of DLTs is routine and safe in experienced hands, it is not without risk.

Adult Plastic Bronchitis: A Rare Cause for Chronic Productive Cough.

Plastic bronchitis is a rare disease with serious morbidity. We report a case of a 48-year-old male smoker with a past medical history of diabetes, emphysema, recurrent respiratory infections, a worsening productive cough, and increased oxygen requirement over the past 3 months. Often described in the pediatric population, it is important to maintain plastic bronchitis in the differential when considering unresolving pulmonary conditions with chronic sputum production.

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Deep-learning CT imaging algorithm to detect usual interstitial pneumonia pattern in patients with systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease: association with disease progression and survival.

Objectives: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is the most common cause of death in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), although disease behavior is highly heterogeneous. While a usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) pattern is associated with worse survival in other ILDs, its significance in SSc-ILD is unclear. We sought to assess the prognostic utility of a deep-learning HRCT algorithm of UIP probability in SSc-ILD.

Depressive and anxiety symptoms among university students during the later stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany - Results from the COVID 19 German Student Well-being Study (C19 GSWS).

Introduction: Data on the mental health of university students in Germany during the later stages of the pandemic is still limited. This study aimed to determine (1) the prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms among university students 1.5 years after the first COVID-19 restrictions and (2) which factors were associated with these outcomes.

Robotic-Assisted Pleurectomy Is a Safe and Effective Surgical Treatment for Spontaneous Pneumothorax.

Introduction: Spontaneous pneumothorax is a common thoracic surgical problem. To prevent recurrence, surgical options include blebectomy, mechanical or chemical pleurodesis, pleurectomy, or a combination of these operations. Pleurectomy is associated with lower recurrence rates but may be technically challenging via video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.

The Surgical Renaissance: Advancements in Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery and Robotic-Assisted Thoracic Surgery and Their Impact on Patient Outcomes.

Minimally invasive thoracic surgery has advanced the treatment of lung cancer since its introduction in the 1990s. Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) offer the advantage of smaller incisions without compromising patient outcomes. These techniques have been shown to be safe and effective in standard pulmonary resections (lobectomy and sub-lobar resection) and in complex pulmonary resections (sleeve resection and pneumonectomy).

Trends and comparative outcomes between operative approaches for segmentectomy in lung cancer.

Background: Segmentectomy is increasingly performed for non-small cell lung cancer. However, comparative outcomes data among open, robotic-assisted, and video-assisted thoracoscopic approaches are limited.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study of non-small cell lung cancer segmentectomy cases (2013-2021) from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database was performed.

Corrigendum: Adolescents' perceptions and user experiences with a virtual reality-based alcohol prevention tool in Germany: A focus group study.

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Depressive Symptoms Among Higher Education Students in Germany-A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Objectives: Higher education students in Germany are vulnerable to depressive symptoms. Despite ample evidence, no comprehensive review has recently been conducted. Thus, our systematic review and meta-analysis aims at describing the extent to which students are affected by depressive symptoms.

Vulnerability of Eastern Tropical Pacific chondrichthyan fish to climate change.

Climate change is an environmental emergency threatening species and ecosystems globally. Oceans have absorbed about 90% of anthropogenic heat and 20%-30% of the carbon emissions, resulting in ocean warming, acidification, deoxygenation, changes in ocean stratification and nutrient availability, and more severe extreme events. Given predictions of further changes, there is a critical need to understand how marine species will be affected.

Uneven consequences of global climate mitigation pathways on regional water quality in the 21st century.

Future socioeconomic climate pathways have regional water-quality consequences whose severity and equity have not yet been fully understood across geographic and economic spectra. We use a process-based, terrestrial-freshwater ecosystem model to project 21st-century river nitrogen loads under these pathways. We find that fertilizer usage is the primary determinant of future river nitrogen loads, changing precipitation and warming have limited impacts, and CO fertilization-induced vegetation growth enhancement leads to modest load reductions.

Large dynamic scissoring mode displacements coupled to band gap opening in the cubic phase of the methylammonium lead halide perovskites.

Hybrid perovskites are a rapidly growing research area, having reached photovoltaic power conversion efficiencies of over 25%. There is a increasing consensus that the structures of these materials, and hence their electronic structures, cannot be understood purely from the time and space averaged crystal structures observable by conventional methods. We apply a symmetry-motivated analysis method to analyse x-ray pair distribution function data of the cubic phases of the hybrid perovskites MAPb(= I, Br, Cl).

University Students' Financial Situation During COVID-19 and Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms: Results of the COVID-19 German Student Well-Being Study (C19 GSWS).

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on students' financial situation as well as on their mental health.

Aim: To examine the reported change in the financial situation of German university students before and across two time points of the COVID-19 pandemic and to evaluate its associations with anxiety and depressive symptoms.

Methods: We used data from the cross-sectional COVID-19 German Student Well-being Study conducted at five German universities (N = 7203).

Robotic-Assisted Ivor Lewis Esophagectomy.

Robotic-assisted surgery is a safe and effective approach to minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy. Outcomes are optimized when surgeons are familiar with the fundamentals of minimally invasive surgery of the esophagus and after gaining sufficient experience with robotic surgical techniques.

Design of ANCHOR-RA: a multi-national cross-sectional study on screening for interstitial lung disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Background: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at risk of developing interstitial lung disease (ILD), which is associated with high mortality. Screening tools based on risk factors are needed to decide which patients with RA should be screened for ILD using high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT). The ANCHOR-RA study is a multi-national cross-sectional study that will develop a multivariable model for prediction of RA-ILD, which can be used to inform screening for RA-ILD in clinical practice.

Mental health among adolescents exposed to social inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: a scoping review.

Background And Objective: Adolescents from Latin America and the Caribbean grow up in a context of social inequality, which diminishes their well-being and leads to impaired emotional-cognitive development. To understand the problem, it is important to synthesize the available research about it. This study aims to explore the knowledge about adolescents' mental health in Latin America and the Caribbean exposed to social inequality.

The electroneutral Na-HCO cotransporter NBCn1 (SLC4A7) modulates colonic enterocyte pH, proliferation, and migration.

NBCn1 (SLC4A7) is one of the two major Na-HCO cotransporters in the human colonic epithelium, expressed predominantly in the highly proliferating colonocytes at the cryptal base. Increased NBCn1 expression levels are reported in tumors, including colorectal cancer. The study explores its importance for maintenance of the intracellular pH (pH), as well as the proliferative, adhesive, and migratory behavior of the self-differentiating Caco2BBe colonic tumor cell line.

Skillful multiyear prediction of marine habitat shifts jointly constrained by ocean temperature and dissolved oxygen.

The ability to anticipate marine habitat shifts responding to climate variability has high scientific and socioeconomic value. Here we quantify interannual-to-decadal predictability of habitat shifts by combining trait-based aerobic habitat constraints with a suite of initialized retrospective Earth System Model forecasts, for diverse marine ecotypes in the North American Large Marine Ecosystems. We find that aerobic habitat viability, defined by joint constraints of temperature and oxygen on organismal energy balance, is potentially predictable in the upper-600 m ocean, showing a substantial improvement over a simple persistence forecast.

Estimating the effect of nintedanib on forced vital capacity in children and adolescents with fibrosing interstitial lung disease using a Bayesian dynamic borrowing approach.

Background: The rarity of childhood interstitial lung disease (chILD) makes it challenging to conduct powered trials. In the InPedILD trial, among 39 children and adolescents with fibrosing ILD, there was a numerical benefit of nintedanib versus placebo on change in forced vital capacity (FVC) over 24 weeks (difference in mean change in FVC % predicted of 1.21 [95% confidence interval: -3.

pH-regulated single cell migration.

Over the last two decades, extra- and intracellular pH have emerged as fundamental regulators of cell motility. Fundamental physiological and pathological processes relying on appropriate cell migration, such as embryonic development, wound healing, and a proper immune defense on the one hand, and autoimmune diseases, metastatic cancer, and the progression of certain parasitic diseases on the other, depend on surrounding pH. In addition, migrating single cells create their own localized pH nanodomains at their surface and in the cytosol.