What do we know about mechanical strain in lung alveoli?

Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges for dermatologists: What shall we do when we don’t know what to do?

What shall we do when we have done everything we could for the diagnosis and treatment of a patient, but were not successful? What shall we do when there is no definite treatment for a patient? What shall we do when we have no diagnosis or treatment for a patient? Some useful suggestions are presented here to get rid of these situations.

Recruitment maneuvers in acute lung injury: what do the data tell us?

During the past several decades, we have come to appreciate that mechanical ventilation practices affect outcome in patients with acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Physiologic evidence suggests that overdistention of alveoli can lead to ventilator-induced lung injury,1,2 and cyclic opening and closing of alveoli is also injurious.3,4 ALI is a heterogeneous ...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

Travel Diarrhea in Childhood “First Part; what do we know?”

Molecular approaches to diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis what we know and what we do not know.

Invasive aspergillosis (IA) are a major complication in immunocompromized patients where can be serious and rapidly fatal. Early diagnosis and early appropriate antifungal treatment is important in reducing mortality and morbidity. But despite many efforts to develop detection methods, the diagnosis of IA still remains challenging and current conventional methods are limited for adequate diagno...