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Oct 14, 2024 | ccforum.biomedcentral.com | Fabio Silvio |Integrated Diagnostics |Perioperative Care

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May 24, 2024 | ccforum.biomedcentral.com | Integrated Diagnostics

Once ensured the correct positioning and inflation of the esophageal balloon, further reasoning and computations are necessary to use it as a tool to titrate mechanical ventilation settings. The simplest application of esophageal pressure monitoring in passive mechanically ventilated patients is the partitioning of the respiratory system elastance (Ers) in its two components: lung elastance (EL) and chest wall elastance (Ecw) [1, 3, 20].

Apr 2, 2024 | bjsacademy.com | Integrated Diagnostics

Our group at University of Genoa School of Medicine has extensive experience with hypoabsorptive bariatric surgery, and our paper highlights the results of biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) at very long term. Two main findings emerged from the study: first, hypoabsorptive bariatric surgery is very effective at maintaining a stable weight loss and excellent control of the metabolic comorbidities decades after the initial operation, but second, this comes at high, and ever increasing, clinical cost.

Apr 19, 2023 | ccforum.biomedcentral.com | Integrated Diagnostics

Author notesSung-Min Cho and Denise Battaglini contributed equally as senior authors.