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ERS International Congress 2021: highlights from the Interstitial Lung Diseases Assembly (2022)
Journal Article
Guler, S. A., Cuevas-Ocaña, S., Nasser, M., Wuyts, W. A., Wijsenbeek, M. S., Froidure, A., …Moor, C. C. (2022). ERS International Congress 2021: highlights from the Interstitial Lung Diseases Assembly. ERJ Open Research, 8(2), https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00640-2021

This article provides an overview of scientific highlights in the field of interstitial lung disease (ILD), presented at the virtual European Respiratory Society Congress 2021. A broad range of topics was discussed this year, ranging from translation... Read More about ERS International Congress 2021: highlights from the Interstitial Lung Diseases Assembly.

ERS International Congress 2021: highlights from the Paediatric Assembly (2022)
Journal Article
Ardura-Garcia, C., Abellan, A., Cuevas-Ocaña, S., Freitag, N., Lam, Y. T., Makrinioti, H., …Pijnenburg, M. W. (2022). ERS International Congress 2021: highlights from the Paediatric Assembly. ERJ Open Research, 8(2), https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00643-2021

In this review, Early Career Members of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and the Chairs of the ERS Assembly 7: Paediatrics present the highlights in paediatric respiratory medicine from the ERS International Congress 2021. The eight scientific... Read More about ERS International Congress 2021: highlights from the Paediatric Assembly.

Impact of Coexisting Dementia on Inpatient Outcomes for Patients Admitted with a COPD Exacerbation (2022)
Journal Article
Gupta, A., McKeever, T. M., Hutchinson, J. P., & Bolton, C. E. (2022). Impact of Coexisting Dementia on Inpatient Outcomes for Patients Admitted with a COPD Exacerbation. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 2022(17), 535-544. https://doi.org/10.2147/copd.s345751

Purpose: People with COPD are at a higher risk of cognitive dysfunction than the general population. However, the additional impact of dementia amongst such patients is not well understood, particularly in those admitted with a COPD exacerbation. We... Read More about Impact of Coexisting Dementia on Inpatient Outcomes for Patients Admitted with a COPD Exacerbation.

Corticosteroid plus glycyrrhizin therapy for chronic drug‐ or herb‐induced liver injury achieves biochemical and histological improvements: a randomised open‐label trial (2022)
Journal Article
Wang, J. B., Huang, A., Wang, Y., Ji, D., Liang, Q. S., Zhao, J., Zhou, G., Liu, S., Niu, M., Sun, Y., Tian, H., Teng, G. J., Chang, B. X., Bi, J. F., Peng, X. X., Xin, S., Xie, H., Ma, X., Mao, Y. M., Liangpunsakul, S., …Zou, Z. (2022). Corticosteroid plus glycyrrhizin therapy for chronic drug‐ or herb‐induced liver injury achieves biochemical and histological improvements: a randomised open‐label trial. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 55(10), 1297-1310. https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.16902

Background
Treatment of chronic drug-induced liver injury (DILI) or herb-induced liver injury(HILI) is an important and unresolved challenge. There is no consensus regarding the indications for corticosteroids for chronic DILI/HILI.

Aims
To inve... Read More about Corticosteroid plus glycyrrhizin therapy for chronic drug‐ or herb‐induced liver injury achieves biochemical and histological improvements: a randomised open‐label trial.

Joint patient and clinician priority setting to identify 10 key research questions regarding the long-term sequelae of COVID-19 (2022)
Journal Article
Houchen-Wolloff, L., Poinasamy, K., Holmes, K., Tarpey, M., Hastie, C., Raihani, K., …Evans, R. A. (2022). Joint patient and clinician priority setting to identify 10 key research questions regarding the long-term sequelae of COVID-19. Thorax, 77(7), 717-720. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2021-218582

Given the large numbers of people infected and high rates of ongoing morbidity, research is clearly required to address the needs of adult survivors of COVID-19 living with ongoing symptoms (long COVID). To help direct resource and research efforts,... Read More about Joint patient and clinician priority setting to identify 10 key research questions regarding the long-term sequelae of COVID-19.

Patient-reported respiratory outcome measures in the recovery of adults hospitalised with COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Middleton, S., Chalitsios, C., McKeever, T. M., Jenkins, A. R., & Bolton, C. E. Patient-reported respiratory outcome measures in the recovery of adults hospitalised with COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Background Acute COVID-19 clinical symptoms have been clearly documented, but long-term functional and symptomatic recovery from COVID -19 is less well described.

Methods A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted to describe patient-rep... Read More about Patient-reported respiratory outcome measures in the recovery of adults hospitalised with COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Antibody decay, T cell immunity and breakthrough infections following two SARS-CoV-2 vaccine doses in inflammatory bowel disease patients treated with infliximab and vedolizumab (2022)
Journal Article
Lin, S., Kennedy, N. A., Saifuddin, A., Sandoval, D. M., Reynolds, C. J., Castro Seoane, R., …Jones, G. (2022). Antibody decay, T cell immunity and breakthrough infections following two SARS-CoV-2 vaccine doses in inflammatory bowel disease patients treated with infliximab and vedolizumab. Nature Communications, 13, Article 1379. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28517-z

Anti tumour necrosis factor (anti-TNF) drugs increase the risk of serious respiratory infection and impair protective immunity following pneumococcal and influenza vaccination. Here we report SARS-CoV-2 vaccine-induced immune responses and breakthrou... Read More about Antibody decay, T cell immunity and breakthrough infections following two SARS-CoV-2 vaccine doses in inflammatory bowel disease patients treated with infliximab and vedolizumab.

Dynamic susceptibility-contrast magnetic resonance imaging with contrast agent leakage correction aids in predicting grade in pediatric brain tumours: a multicenter study (2022)
Journal Article
Withey, S. B., MacPherson, L., Oates, A., Powell, S., Novak, J., Abernethy, L., Pizer, B., Grundy, R., Morgan, P. S., Bailey, S., Mitra, D., Arvanitis, T. N., Auer, D. P., Avula, S., & Peet, A. C. (2022). Dynamic susceptibility-contrast magnetic resonance imaging with contrast agent leakage correction aids in predicting grade in pediatric brain tumours: a multicenter study. Pediatric Radiology, 52(6), 1134-1149. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-021-05266-7

Background: Relative cerebral blood volume (rCBV) measured using dynamic susceptibility-contrast MRI can differentiate between low- and high-grade pediatric brain tumors. Multicenter studies are required for translation into clinical practice.

Ob... Read More about Dynamic susceptibility-contrast magnetic resonance imaging with contrast agent leakage correction aids in predicting grade in pediatric brain tumours: a multicenter study.

Psychological impact of lung cancer screening using a novel antibody blood test followed by imaging: the ECLS randomised controlled trial (2022)
Journal Article
Hancox, J., Ayling, K., Bedford, L., Vedhara, K., Robertson, J. F. R., Young, B., …Kendrick., D. (2023). Psychological impact of lung cancer screening using a novel antibody blood test followed by imaging: the ECLS randomised controlled trial. Journal of Public Health, 45(2), e275–e284. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdac032

Background: The Early CDT®-Lung antibody blood test plus serial CT-scans for test-positives reduces late-stage lung cancer presentation. This study assessed psychological outcomes of this approach.

Methods: Randomised controlled trial (n=12,208) c... Read More about Psychological impact of lung cancer screening using a novel antibody blood test followed by imaging: the ECLS randomised controlled trial.

Autologous bone marrow mononuclear cell infusion for liver cirrhosis after the Kasai operation in children with biliary atresia (2022)
Journal Article
Nguyen, T. L., Nguyen, H. P., Ngo, D. M., Ha, T. H. T., Mai, K. A., Bui, T. H., Nguyen, P. V., Pham, L. H., Hoang, D. M., & Cao, A. D. T. (2022). Autologous bone marrow mononuclear cell infusion for liver cirrhosis after the Kasai operation in children with biliary atresia. Stem Cell Research and Therapy, 13(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13287-022-02762-x

Aim: To evaluate the safety and early outcomes of autologous bone marrow mononuclear cell (BMMNC) infusion for liver cirrhosis due to biliary atresia (BA) after Kasai operation.

Methods: An open-label clinical trial was performed from January 201... Read More about Autologous bone marrow mononuclear cell infusion for liver cirrhosis after the Kasai operation in children with biliary atresia.

Human bronchial epithelial cells from patients with asthma have an altered gene expression profile (2022)
Journal Article
Bhaker, S., Portelli, M. A., Rakkar, K., Shaw, D., Johnson, S., Brightling, C., & Sayers, I. (2022). Human bronchial epithelial cells from patients with asthma have an altered gene expression profile. ERJ Open Research, 8(1), Article 0625-2021. https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00625-2021Published21February2022

Endothelial Cell RNA-Seq Data: Differential Expression and Functional Enrichment Analyses to Study Phenotypic Switching (2022)
Book Chapter
Pinel, G. D., Horder, J. L., King, J. R., McIntyre, A., Mongan, N. P., López, G. G., & Benest, A. V. (2022). Endothelial Cell RNA-Seq Data: Differential Expression and Functional Enrichment Analyses to Study Phenotypic Switching. In A. V. Benest (Ed.), Angiogenesis: Methods and Protocol (369-426). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2059-5_29

RNA-seq is a common approach used to explore gene expression data between experimental conditions or cell types and ultimately leads to information that can shed light on the biological processes involved and inform further hypotheses. While the prot... Read More about Endothelial Cell RNA-Seq Data: Differential Expression and Functional Enrichment Analyses to Study Phenotypic Switching.

Ambulatory care management of 69 patients with acute severe ulcerative colitis in comparison to 695 inpatients: insights from a multicentre UK cohort study (2022)
Journal Article
Sebastian, S., Patel, K. V., Segal, J. P., Subramanian, S., Conley, T. E., Gonzalez, H. A., …PROTECT ASUC collaborators. (2022). Ambulatory care management of 69 patients with acute severe ulcerative colitis in comparison to 695 inpatients: insights from a multicentre UK cohort study. BMJ Open Gastroenterology, 9, Article e000763. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgast-2021-000763

Introduction Acute severe ulcerative colitis (ASUC) traditionally requires inpatient hospital management for intravenous therapies and/or colectomy. Ambulatory ASUC care has not yet been evaluated in large cohorts. Aims We used data from PROTECT, a U... Read More about Ambulatory care management of 69 patients with acute severe ulcerative colitis in comparison to 695 inpatients: insights from a multicentre UK cohort study.

Genetic Associations and Architecture of Asthma-COPD Overlap (2022)
Journal Article
John, C., Guyatt, A. L., Shrine, N., Packer, R., Olafsdottir, T. A., Liu, J., Hayden, L. P., Chu, S. H., Koskela, J. T., Luan, J., Li, X., Terzikhan, N., Xu, H., Bartz, T. M., Petersen, H., Leng, S., Belinsky, S. A., Cepelis, A., Hernández Cordero, A. I., Obeidat, M., …Tobin, M. D. (2022). Genetic Associations and Architecture of Asthma-COPD Overlap. Chest, 161(5), 1155-1166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2021.12.674

Background:
Some people have characteristics of both asthma and COPD (asthma-COPD overlap), and evidence suggests they experience worse outcomes than those with either condition alone.

Research Question:
What is the genetic architecture of as... Read More about Genetic Associations and Architecture of Asthma-COPD Overlap.

Advances in magnetic resonance tomography (2022)
Book Chapter
Pirogov, Y. A., Anisimov, N. V., Pavlova, O. S., Pavlovskaya, G. E., Sadykhov, E., Gulyaev, M. V., …Gervits, L. L. (2022). Advances in magnetic resonance tomography. In Magnetic Materials and Technologies for Medical Applications (107-152). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822532-5.00005-4

This chapter sets out the most promising modern directions of research in the field of magnetic resonance imaging. These include multinuclear studies aimed at the exploration of magnetic resonance (MR) image contrast induced by exogeneous (fluorine-1... Read More about Advances in magnetic resonance tomography.

Timing of high-dose methotrexate CNS prophylaxis in DLBCL: a multicenter international analysis of 1384 patients. (2022)
Journal Article
Wilson, M. R., Eyre, T. A., Kirkwood, A. A., Wong Doo, N., Soussain, C., Choquet, S., Martinez-Calle, N., Preston, G., Ahearne, M., Schorb, E., Moles-Moreau, M.-P., Ku, M., Rusconi, C., Khwaja, J., Narkhede, M., Lewis, K. L., Calimeri, T., Durot, E., Renaud, L., Øvlisen, A. K., …McKay, P. (2022). Timing of high-dose methotrexate CNS prophylaxis in DLBCL: a multicenter international analysis of 1384 patients. Blood, 139(16), 2499-2511. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2021014506

Prophylactic high-dose methotrexate (HD-MTX) is often used for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients at high risk of central nervous system (CNS) relapse, despite limited evidence demonstrating efficacy or the optimal delivery method. We con... Read More about Timing of high-dose methotrexate CNS prophylaxis in DLBCL: a multicenter international analysis of 1384 patients..

Current Use of EEN in Pre-Operative Optimisation in Crohn’s Disease (2021)
Journal Article
Shariff, S., Moran, G., Grimes, C., & Cooney, R. M. (2021). Current Use of EEN in Pre-Operative Optimisation in Crohn’s Disease. Nutrients, 13(12), Article 4389. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13124389

Despite the increasing array of medications available for the treatment of Crohn’s disease and a focus on mucosal healing, approximately 35% of patients with Crohn’s disease undergo bowel surgery at some stage. The importance of nutritional optimisat... Read More about Current Use of EEN in Pre-Operative Optimisation in Crohn’s Disease.

Human Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Exhibit High HLA-DR Levels and Altered Cellular Characteristics under a Xeno-free and Serum-free Condition (2021)
Journal Article
Dam, P. T., Hoang, V. T., Bui, H. T. H., Hang, L. M., Hoang, D. M., Nguyen, H. P., Lien, H. T., Tran, H. T. T., Nguyen, X. H., & Nguyen Thanh, L. (2021). Human Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Exhibit High HLA-DR Levels and Altered Cellular Characteristics under a Xeno-free and Serum-free Condition. Stem Cell Reviews and Reports, 17(6), 2291-2303. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12015-021-10242-7

Background: We have observed an increased expression of negative markers in some clinical-grade, xeno- and serum-free cultured adipose-derived mesenchymal stem/stromal cell (ADMSC) samples. It gave rise to concern that xeno- and serum-free conditions... Read More about Human Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Exhibit High HLA-DR Levels and Altered Cellular Characteristics under a Xeno-free and Serum-free Condition.

Clinically relevant preservation conditions for mesenchymal stem/stromal cells derived from perinatal and adult tissue sources (2021)
Journal Article
Ngo, A. T., Le, H. M., Trinh, N. T., Jun, A. P. G., Bach, T. Q., Bui, H. T., Hoang, V. T., Bui, A. V., Nguyen, L. T., & Hoang, D. M. (2021). Clinically relevant preservation conditions for mesenchymal stem/stromal cells derived from perinatal and adult tissue sources. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, 25(22), 10747-10760. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcmm.17016

The interplay between mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) and preservation conditions is critical to maintain the viability and functionality of these cells before administration. We observed that Ringer lactate (RL) maintained high viability of bo... Read More about Clinically relevant preservation conditions for mesenchymal stem/stromal cells derived from perinatal and adult tissue sources.

Guidelines for the management of mature T‐ and natural killer‐cell lymphomas (excluding cutaneous T‐cell lymphoma): a British Society for Haematology Guideline (2021)
Journal Article
Fox, C. P., Ahearne, M. J., Pettengell, R., Dearden, C., El-Sharkawi, D., Kassam, S., …Collins, G. (2022). Guidelines for the management of mature T‐ and natural killer‐cell lymphomas (excluding cutaneous T‐cell lymphoma): a British Society for Haematology Guideline. British Journal of Haematology, 196(3), 507-522. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjh.17951