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Wednesday, 06/23/2010
43th SEPAR Congress to be held in Galicia
Researchers Antoni Torres, Miquel Ferrer, Pilar Martínez, Marc Miravitlles and Dani Martí will take part in the event
Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos in A Coruña, Galicia, will hold from June 25th until June 28th the next 43th Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery Congress.
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Tuesday, 06/15/2010
The microenvironment in the lung modulates the activation of macrophages leading to different patterns of inflammatory response
This work of Daniel Closa and Antoni Torres groups is published in the online version of the European Respiratory Journal
In large series of nonresponding community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) patients, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was observed to be a protective factor for nonresponse to initial antibiotics. This intriguing fact may be linked to changes in the phenotype of inflammatory cells and, in particular, to the induction of classical-M1 or alternative-M2 activation of macrophages, which result in different inflammatory profiles.
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Friday, 06/04/2010
The city of the Katrina hosted the latest insights on pulmonary and critical care medicine
The importance of preventive bundles was highly emphasized during the conference, written by Gianluigi Li Bassi
The annual International Conference of the American Thoracic Society was held in New Orleans on late May and there were presented the latest insights on ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). New treatments with probiotics and the evaluation of inflammatory markers in order to improve diagnosis are some of the highlights.
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Friday, 05/21/2010
Research Nurse Isabel Martín joins our group
She will work in Barcelona after her seven-year abroad experience in the UK as a nurse
Research Nurse María Isabel Martín López has just joined our research group. She has filled a nursing vacancy and her task will be, from now on, to provide a transversal service to the following lines: Acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute lung injury (ARDS-ALI), ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), noninvasive ventilation (NIV) and animal model. She will also participate in the 2 workpackages -WP3 and WP4- of the Mastering of Hospital Antibiotic Resistance (MOSAR) European project.
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Friday, 05/14/2010
The IAMR group will present 20 projects at the conference ATS 2010
The ashes of the volcano Eyjafjall threaten assistance on the busiest international congress on pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine
Tomorrow, May 15, opens the international conference organized by the American Thoracic Society in New Orleans and several researchers of the IAMR group are willing to travel if the volcano lets them so. The representation of the group is remarkably significant this year. A total of 20 abstracts have been accepted.
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Tuesday, 05/04/2010
5 IAMR Group Research Projects have been awarded grants by SEPAR in the 2009 Call for Grant Applications
The SEPAR 2009 Grants of Fundació Respira (Spanish Lung Foundation) are worth €390,000
The IAMR research team was successful in the 2009 call for the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR) - Fundació Respira grants (http://www.separ.es). Antoni Torres, Carmen Lucena, Eva Polverino, Mariano Esperatti and Hugo Loureiro obtained funding to carry out their research projects in the field of respiratory diseases.
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Thursday, 04/22/2010
Rethinking the concepts of community-acquired and health-care-associated pneumonia
Prof. Antoni Torres suggests a reassignment of the criteria for health-care-associated pneumonia in an article published in Lancet Infectious Diseases which has an impact factor of 13.17
Prof. Antoni Torres, coordinator and team leader of the group Applied Research in Respiratory Infections-IAMR, has just published an article in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases. Carried out along with Santiago Ewig, Tobias Welte and Jean Chastre, this review suggests a reassignment of the criteria for health-care-associated pneumonia (HCAP) in order to solve the problems caused by misleading and confusing definitions of health-care-associated pneumonia.
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Monday, 04/12/2010
Validation of the American Thoracic Society-Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines for Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia in the Intensive Care Unit
The study led by Dr. Miquel Ferrer, Senior Researcher of the group IAMR , was published last April the 1st
The 2005 guidelines of the American Thoracic Society–Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines for managing hospital-acquired pneumonia classified patients according to time of onset and risk factors for potentially drug-resistant microorganisms to select the empirical antimicrobial treatment. We assessed the microbial prediction and validated the adequacy of these guidelines for antibiotic strategy.
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Tuesday, 03/30/2010
The Catalan Pneumology Foundation (FUCAP) has awarded grants to two research projects of the IAMR group in the 2010 call for applications
The IAMR research team was successful in the 2010 call for grant applications by the Catalan Pneumology Foundation (FUCAP). The prizes were awarded in the Palau de Congressos de Girona last 26-27 March, during the 28th Pneumology Day
Dr. Carlos Agustí and researcher Carmen Mª Lucena Pozo from IAMR, among other researchers, were awarded a FUCAP grant for their project Influence of the innate immune response on respiratory infections in receptors of hematopoietic steam cell transplantation. Moreover, Dr. Miquel Ferrer Monreal and researcher Laia Fernández Barat from IAMR were awarded, among other researchers, the LETI grant for their project Study of the Biofilm in Ventilator Associated Pneumonia in a swine model.
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Wednesday, 03/24/2010
New data on prevalence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Spain
Dr. Marc Miravitlles exposes the latest national epidemiologic results in a clinical session at the hospital Clinic of Barcelona
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading, but under-recognised, cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. No other disease that is responsible for comparable burden worldwide is neglected by healthcare providers as much as COPD.
The available epidemiologic data in Spain has been recently reviewed elsewhere The Estudio epidemiológico de EPOC en España (IBERPOC) study. In his latest study Dr. Miravitlles compared participants from the IBERPOC study (n=4,030), conducted in 1997, with those of the EPI-SCAN study (n=3,802) conducted in 2007.
