In lungs the number of conducting airway generations as well as bifurcation patterns varies across species and shows specific characteristics relating to illnesses or gene variations. A method to characterize the topology of the mouse airway tree using scanning laser optical tomography (SLOT) tomograms is presented in this paper. It is used to test discrimination between two types of mice based...

Background: Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA) is a useful advent in the airway management, filling a niche between the face mask and the tracheal tube in terms of both the anatomical position and the degree of invasiveness. Propofol is an intravenous anesthetic agent which depresses both laryngeal and pharyngeal reflexes and provides profound relaxation of pharyngeal muscles. Incidences of gagging co...

Chronic infection and inflammation are defining characteristics of cystic fibrosis (CF) airway disease. Conditions within the airways of patients living with CF are conducive to colonisation by a variety of opportunistic bacterial, viral and fungal pathogens. Improved molecular identification of microorganisms has begun to emphasise the polymicrobial nature of infections in the CF airway microe...

Congenital granular cell tumor (GCT) is a relatively rare intraoral benign tumor, approximately 200 cases of which have been reported in the neonatal period worldwide. The newborn infant may have feeding problems and respiratory difficulties due to airway obstruction. This lesion may be diagnosed by prenatal ultrasonography and simple resection is mostly required. We report a case of an adult t...

congenital granular cell tumor (gct) is a relatively rare intraoral benign tumor, approximately 200 cases of which have been reported in the neonatal period worldwide. the newborn infant may have feeding problems and respiratory difficulties due to airway obstruction. this lesion may be diagnosed by prenatal ultrasonography and simple resection is mostly required. we report a case of an adult t...

awake intubation is the choice for airway management in anticipated difficult airway (da), which means establishing airway without induction of deep sedation; however, in cases where sedation is precarious, decision in emergency situations, success in awake intubation is dependent on proper regional airway block. a 21 year old man with bilateral temporo-mandibular ankyolosis and a 25 years old ...

BACKGROUND Precision medicine aims to combat the variability of the therapeutic response to a given medicine by delivering the right medicine to the right patient. However, the application of precision medicine is predicated on a prior quantitation of the variance of the reference range of normality. Airway pathophysiology provides a good example due to a very variable first line of defence aga...

This study aims to compare the hemodynamic responses to endotracheal intubation performed with direct and video laryngoscope in patients scheduled for cardiac surgery and to assess the airway and laryngoscopic characteristics. One hundred ten patients were equally allocated to either direct Macintosh laryngoscope (n = 55) or indirect Macintosh C-MAC video laryngoscope (n = 55). Systolic, diasto...

Daily inhaled antigens induce cellular immune response in the airways. In case of allergens, allergic airway inflammation is usually represented by eosinophils, however, neutrophil infiltration also observed during severe asthma. Animal models contribute to investigation mechanisms that involve switching eosinophil- or neutrophil-mediated inflammation. Data about spatial location eosinophils an...