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Inhalation of Microplastics—A Toxicological Complexity

Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Myriam Borgatta

Humans are chronically exposed to airborne microplastics (MPs) by inhalation. Various types of polymer particles have been detected in lung samples, which could pose a threat to human health. Inhalation toxicological studies are crucial for assessing the e ...

2024

Topology Repairing of Disconnected Pulmonary Airways and Vessels: Baselines and a Dataset

Jiancheng Yang

Accurate segmentation of pulmonary airways and vessels is crucial for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary diseases. However, current deep learning approaches suffer from disconnectivity issues that hinder their clinical usefulness. To address this cha ...

Springer International Publishing Ag2023

Impact of COVID-19 on long-term lung function in lung transplant recipients: A single-center retrospective cohort study

Nahal Mansouri

Available data are limited concerning long-term lung function (LF) evolution after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in lung transplant (LT) recipients. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of first SARS-CoV ...

WILEY2023

Deep learning parametric response mapping from inspiratory chest CT scans: a new approach for small airway disease screening

Ming Li, Bo Du, Jun Lu, Yuxuan Sun, Ziyi Liu, Zhigang Li, Lin Qi, Zhiye Wang, Jiancheng Yang

Objectives Parametric response mapping (PRM) enables the evaluation of small airway disease (SAD) at the voxel level, but requires both inspiratory and expiratory chest CT scans. We hypothesize that deep learning PRM from inspiratory chest CT scans can eff ...

BMC2023

Multi-site, Multi-domain Airway Tree Modeling

Boyu Zhang, Jiancheng Yang, Ying Zhu, Yi Wu

Open international challenges are becoming the de facto standard for assessing computer vision and image analysis algorithms. In recent years, new methods have extended the reach of pulmonary airway segmentation that is closer to the limit of image resolut ...

Elsevier2023

Deep learning diagnostic and severity-stratification for interstitial lung diseases and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in digital lung auscultations and ultrasonography: clinical protocol for an observational case-control study

Jonathan Dönz, Mary-Anne Hartley

BackgroundInterstitial lung diseases (ILD), such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and non-specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are severe, progressive pulmonary disorders with a poor prognosis. Prom ...

BMC2023

What Makes for Automatic Reconstruction of Pulmonary Segments

Bo Du, Li Zhang, Hongwei Li, Jiancheng Yang, Jingyu Li

3D reconstruction of pulmonary segments plays an important role in surgical treatment planning of lung cancer, which facilitates preservation of pulmonary function and helps ensure low recurrence rates. However, automatic reconstruction of pulmonary segmen ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

Assessment of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy using a deep learning method for muscle T2 mapping segmentation

Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert, Qian Wang, Yubo Zhao, Yao Zhang

Objective To investigate the utility of an automatic deep learning (DL) method for segmentation of T2 maps in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) against healthy controls, and also the association of quantitative T2 values in patients with ...

SPRINGER2022

Prognostic Implications of the Novel Pulmonary Hypertension Definition in Patients with Aortic Stenosis after Transcatheter Valve Replacement

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Stamatia Zoi Pagoulatou, Vasiliki Bikia, Georgios Rovas

Introduction: Pulmonary hypertension (PH), traditionally defined as a mean pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) >= 25 mmHg, is associated with poor outcomes in patients undergoing a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) for severe aortic stenosis (AS). ...

MDPI2022

Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Agents Based on Multivalent Inhibitors of Viral Infectivity

Francesco Stellacci

The ongoing pandemic of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), caused by the spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV-2), highlights the need for broad-spectrum antiviral drugs. In this Essay, it is argued that such agents alrea ...

WILEY2021

A Machine-Generated View of the Role of Blood Glucose Levels in the Severity of COVID-19

Henry Markram, Daniel Keller, Emmanuelle Logette, Francesco Casalegno, Jay Coggan, Cyrille Pierre Henri Favreau, Mohameth François Sy, Samuel Claude Kerrien, Anna-Kristin Kaufmann, Pierre-Alexandre Fonta, Enrico Scantamburlo, Marine Laure Bertschy

SARS-CoV-2 started spreading toward the end of 2019 causing COVID-19, a disease that reached pandemic proportions among the human population within months. The reasons for the spectrum of differences in the severity of the disease across the population, an ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2021

Distinct types of plexiform lesions identified by synchrotron-based phase-contrast micro-CT

Goran Lovric

In pulmonary arterial hypertension, plexiform lesions are associated with severe arterial obstruction and right ventricular failure. Exploring their structure and position is crucial for understanding the interplay between hemodynamics and vascular remodel ...

AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC2021

Micrometer-resolution X-ray tomographic full-volume reconstruction of an intact post-mortem juvenile rat lung

Anders Larsson, Marco Stampanoni, Goran Lovric

In this article, we present an X-ray tomographic imaging method that is well suited for pulmonary disease studies in animal models to resolve the full pathway from gas intake to gas exchange. Current state-of-the-art synchrotron-based tomographic phase-con ...

SPRINGER2021

Implementation and Calibration of a Deep Neural Network to Predict Parameters of Left Ventricular Systolic Function Based on Pulmonary and Systemic Arterial Pressure Signals

Simone Deparis, Jean Bonnemain, Luca Pegolotti

The evaluation of cardiac contractility by the assessment of the ventricular systolic elastance function is clinically challenging and cannot be easily obtained at the bedside. In this work, we present a framework characterizing left ventricular systolic f ...

2020

Mesenchymal stromal cell exosomes prevent and revert experimental pulmonary fibrosis through modulation of monocyte phenotypes

Sina Nassiri, Nahal Mansouri

Mesenchymal stromal/stem cell (MSC) therapy has shown promise in experimental models of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The aim of this study was to test the therapeutic effects of extracellular vesicles produced by human BM MSCs (MEx) in a bleomycin- ...

AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC2019

FIBCD1 Binds Aspergillus fumigatus and Regulates Lung Epithelial Response to Cell Wall Components

Lalit Kumar Dubey

Aspergillus fumigatus (A. fumigatus) is a ubiquitous fungus of clinical importance associated with development of various pulmonary diseases and allergic hypersensitivity reactions. It is protected against environmental stress by a cell wall that contains ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2018

An original valveless artificial heart providing pulsatile flow tested in mock circulatory loops

François Avellan, Jonathan Emery, Audrey Paulette Solange Maertens

Purpose: We present the test bench results of a valveless total artificial heart that is potentially compatible with the pediatric population. Methods: The RollingHeart is a valveless volumetric pump generating pulsatile flow. It consists of a single spher ...

Wichtig Editore2017

Tomographic in vivo microscopy for the study of lung physiology at the alveolar level

Marco Stampanoni, Goran Lovric

Lungs represent the essential part of the mammalian respiratory system, which is reflected in the fact that lung failure still is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Establishing the connection between macroscopic observations o ...

Nature Research2017

Non-invasive hemodynamic monitoring by electrical impedance tomography

Martin Proença

The monitoring of central hemodynamic parameters such as cardiac output (CO) and pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) is of paramount clinical importance to assess the health status of the cardiovascular system. However, their measurement requires the insertion ...

EPFL2017

Nanoparticle conjugation of antigen enhances cytotoxic T-cell responses in pulmonary vaccination

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Marie Ballester, Armando Stano, Karen Dane, Benjamin John Marsland

The ability of vaccines to induce memory cytotoxic T-cell responses in the lung is crucial in stemming and treating pulmonary diseases caused by viruses and bacteria. However, most approaches to subunit vaccines produce primarily humoral and only to a less ...

National Academy of Sciences2011