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Status of metered dose inhaler technique among patients with asthma and its effect on asthma control in Northwest Ethiopia

BMC Research Notes, 2019
Objective In Asthma management, poor handling of inhalation devices and wrong inhalation technique are associated with decreased medication delivery and poor disease control.
Melles Mebrahtom, Nebiyu Mesfin, Hailay Gebreyesus, Mebrahtu Teweldemedhin   +3 more
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A Lightweight, 3D‐Printable, Low‐Cost, “One‐Click” Dorsal Skin Window for High‐Quality Long‐Term Multimodal Subcutaneous Tumor Imaging

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
An innovative, lightweight 3D‐printed skinfold chamber system is presented for long‐term intravital imaging. This affordable, biocompatible platform simplifies surgical implantation and allows high‐resolution, multimodal visualization of the tumor microenvironment for up to four weeks.
Iván Cortés Domínguez, Xabier Morales Urteaga, Maider Esparza, Lucía Grande, Ainhoa Urbiola, Cristina Ederra, Tomas Muñoz Santoro, Beatrice Pinci, Alvaro Teijeira, Carlos Ortiz de Solórzano   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing inhaler technique and asthma knowledge through a pharmacist-guided AI tool [PDF]

Pharmacia
Background: Incorrect inhaler technique and insufficient patient education are commonly associated with poor asthma control. Community pharmacists are well positioned to deliver this counseling; however, verbal counseling alone may not always be ...
Abeer M. Kharshid
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Multifunctional Catechol‐Functionalized Cellulose Hydrogels for the Minimally Invasive Treatment of Acute Optic Nerve Injuries

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Catechol‐functionalized cellulose hydrogels are developed as injectable, bioadhesive platforms for retinal neuroprotection. The hydrogels exhibit tunable rheological and mechanical properties, strong tissue adhesion, and sustained antioxidative activity.
Kai‐Hsiang Chang, Yi‐Ke Lin, Wei‐Li Chen, Ta‐Ching Chen, Jiashing Yu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Fully Defined GelMA‐Based Matrix Allows Fine Tuning of Tissue‐Relevant Biomechanical and Biochemical Cues for Organoid Culture

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A fully defined GelMA‐based ECM platform integrates tunable tissue‐relevant stiffness with laminin–entactin biochemical supplementation to support mouse small intestinal organoid growth. Coordinated control of mechanical and biochemical cues promotes robust proliferation, budding morphogenesis, differentiation, and passaging, providing a reproducible ...
Junyi Liu, Su Su Htwe, Lay Poh Tan, Yen Choo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Engineering Concentration‐Dependent Intravitreal Mobility via Cyclic Arginine‐Enriched Nanocarrier Surface Modification: In Vivo Proof‐of‐Concept in a Porcine Large Animal Model

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
In this study, Hammer et al. highlight cyclic‐arginine surface engineering as a highly biocompatible, controllable, and concentration‐dependent regulator of intravitreal nanoparticle mobility in vivo in a translational large animal model. The cyclic arginine surface‐modification supports the development of next‐generation biomaterials for long‐acting ...
Maximilian Hammer, Bryan Calder Ackermann, Anna Stoß, Niklas Junker, Ludwig Geisweid, Sabrina Wohlfart, Jonathan Herth, Simon William Pohl, Manuel Ben Böhmann, André Schulz, Victor Aristide Augustin, Gerd Uwe Auffarth, Philipp Uhl   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Oxygels: Tunable Phosphorescent Hydrogels for Cherenkov‐Excited Luminescence Imaging (CELI) of Oxygen

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Biocompatible hydrogels with covalently embedded near‐infrared phosphorescent probes enable local tissue pO2 quantification by means of Cherenkov‐excited luminescence imaging (CELI), where optical excitation occurs within tissues upon irradiation with high‐energy electron beams.
Simin Belali, Marien Iliza Ochoa Mendoza, Matthew S. Reed, Danylo Mykhalchuk, Annemarie Lang, Joel D. Boerckel, Brian W. Pogue, Sergei A. Vinogradov   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exacerbation of asthma due to inadvertent use of a dummy inhaler

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2018
Asthma is a common airways disease. Fortunately most patients respond well to inhaled therapy. Regular use of a combination inhaler delivering corticosteroid and a long-acting beta-2 agonist, is the mainstay of treatment and allows asthmatics to live a ...
Syed Mohammad Tariq
doaj   +1 more source

Rapid Fabrication of Self‐Propelled and Steerable Magnetic Microcatheters for Precision Medicine

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A rapid Joule heating fabrication method for the production of self‐propelling, adaptive microcatheters, with tunable stiffness and integrated microfluidic channels is presented. Demonstrated through three microrobotic designs, including a steerable guiding catheter, an untethered wave‐crawling TubeBot, and a distal‐end propelled microcatheter, it was ...
Zhi Chen, Boris Rivkin, David Castellanos‐Robles, Ivan Soldatov, Lukas Beyer, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inhaler devices in asthma and COPD – An assessment of inhaler technique and patient preferences [PDF]

Respiratory Medicine, 2014
Incorrect use of inhaler devices remains an obstacle for respiratory diseases management. We aimed to evaluate the frequency of inhaler technique errors; to determine the devices perceived as the easiest and favourite to use; to study the association of device type, demographics and patient preferences with inhaler technique (IT).Cross-sectional ...
Chorão, Pedro, Pereira, Ana M., Fonseca, João A.   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources