Delivery of medications to preterm neonates receiving non-invasive ventilation (NIV)
represents one of the most challenging scenarios for aerosol medicine. This challenge is …

Purpose: To prospectively evaluate use of diffusion-weighted (DW) magnetic resonance (MR)
images and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps for determination of the consistency …

Background Respiratory distress syndrome in preterm babies is caused by a pulmonary
surfactant deficiency, but also by its inactivation due to various conditions, including plasma …

Background and purpose The thalamus seems to be profoundly involved in the cyclical
recurrence of migraine clinical and neurophysiological features. Here possible structural …

Piriformis syndrome (PS) is an unusual cause of sciatica that, because of the lack of strict
diagnostic criteria, remains a controversial clinical entity. The diagnosis of PS is still primarily …

European consensus guidelines recommend nebulised antibiotics for maintenance therapy
in patients with cystic fibrosis and chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. Two …

Neurophysiological investigations have demonstrated that there are unique fluctuations in
the migraine brain functional activity between the ictal and interictal periods. Here we …

Follicular growth is characterized by an augmented vascularization, possibly driven by a fall
in the oxygen supply. The present study was undertaken to investigate the effects of hypoxia …

The central nervous system mechanisms involved in trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias, a
group of primary headaches characterized by strictly unilateral head pain that occurs in …

Coalescence and breakup of large deformable droplets dispersed in a wall-bounded
turbulent flow are investigated. Droplets much larger than the Kolmogorov length scale and …