Claudia Toma

Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy

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Miron Alexandru Bogdan

Institutul de Pneumoftiziologie "Marius Nasta"

Stefan Dumitrache‐Rujinski

Institutul de Pneumoftiziologie "Marius Nasta"

Ionela Belaconi

Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy

Fabrizio Butera

University of Lausanne

Alina Croitoru

Institutul de Pneumoftiziologie "Marius Nasta"

Venerino Poletti

University of Bologna

Olivier Corneille

UCLouvain

Carlo Vancheri

University of Catania

Tudor Constantinescu

Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy

Toby M. Maher

Imperial College London

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Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

Institutul de Pneumoftiziologie "Marius Nasta"

Royal Brompton Hospital

Clinical Emergency Hospital Bucharest

Isabela State University

Clinica de Pneumologie Iaşi

Tumori Foundation

Inserm

Imperial College London

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Correlations between respiratory muscle strength, functional and non-functional parameters in COPD patients

Alina Croitoru Diana Ioniţă Daniela Gologanu Irina Pele Stefan Dumitrache‐Rujinski

Introduction: This study analyzed the respiratory muscle strength in a group of COPD patients and the possible relationship with other functional and non-functional parameters. Subjects and methods : In consecutives, stable COPD patients were evaluated: respiratory muscle strength (maximal inspiratory pressure MIP, maximal expiratory pressure MEP), lung function tests (FEV1, residual volume RV, functional residual capacity FRC), 6 minutes walking test (6MWT), modified Medical Research Council dyspnea scale (mMRC), COPD Assessment Test (CAT), St. George Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Results: 70 COPD patients: 11 females / 59 males. Mean age 62.2±11 years. Mean MEP value: 125.4 ±40 cm H20. Mean MIP value: 67.5 ±23 cm H20. Both MIP and MEP values were correlated positively with: 6MWT distance, FEV1 values (p<0.05), and negatively with: dyspnea, age (p<0.05). MEP value was correlated with weight (p<0.05). No relationship was found with RV, FRC values or with CAT, SGRQ, HADS questionnaires. Concerning the MIP, the lowest values were in stage II GOLD (60.1 cm H20) and in 41.4% of cases the values were < 60 cm H20 (inspiratory muscle fatigue threshold). Conclusions: In our group of COPD patients, respiratory muscle pressures were in relationship with age, weight, dyspnea, FEV1 values and 6MWT distance. Inspiratory muscle pressure was seriously affected in almost half of patients.

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Treatment options in stage III non-small cell lung cancer.

PubMed (2016)

Bianca Paraschiv Camelia Cristina Diaconu Stefan Dumitrache‐Rujinski Ionela Belaconi Tudor Constantinescu

Lung cancer is responsible for over 1 million deaths annually, worldwide. The disease becomes symptomatic in advanced stages, so the diagnosis is delayed and 90% of cases cannot benefit from a curative treatment. In NSCLC surgical resection represents the best option for long term survival in resectable stage III and in clinical stage I/II. Patients with stage IIIB or IV usually receive chemotherapy or palliative treatment. For patients with no driver mutation detected platinum based combination chemotherapy is the first choice. Definitive radiotherapy is considered an lternative for patients who are not candidates for combined modality treatment. When a stage IV cancer is diagnosed based on an isolated metastasis, the patient’s benefit from the removal of the etastasis and of the primary tumor if it is resectable. The prognosis in NSLC is mainly influenced by the TNM stage at diagnosis. The rate of survival decreases in opposing correlation with the stage of the cancer. Poor performance status, reduced lung capacity, weight loss, vascular invasion are indicators for a poor prognosis

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Le traitement motivé de l’information dans la prise de décision en groupe : le cas du paradigme des « profils cachés »

L’Année psychologique (2012)

Claudia Toma Dimitri Vasiljevic Dominique Oberlé Maria Augustinova Fabrizio Butera

Résumé Quand des problèmes importants sont à résoudre, les groupes sont souvent utilisés pour prendre des décisions. Cet avantage accordé aux groupes repose sur l’hypothèse que les membres d’un groupe travaillent de manière coopérative et apportent des ressources supplémentaires lors de la prise de décision. Cet article reconsidère cette hypothèse classique de coopération et passe en revue les recherches effectuées dans le cadre du paradigme des « profils cachés » sous l’angle des enjeux compétitifs. À l’appui des études expérimentales récentes, cet article remet en question des résultats considérés comme classiques et offre des nouvelles perspectives de recherche quant au rôle des motivations coopératives et compétitives dans la prise de décision.

10.3917/anpsy.124.0663

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Disease perception and coping with emotional distress during COVID-19 pandemic

Authorea (Authorea) (2020)

Milena Adina Man Claudia Toma Nicoleta Ștefania Motoc Viana Necrelescu Cosmina Ioana Bondor

Background: The novel coronavirus disease, COVID 19, is a highly contagious infectious disease declared by the World Health Organization pandemic and a global public health emergency. During outbreaks, health care workers are submitted to enormous emotional burden as they must balance the fundamental "duty to treat" with the parallel duty to family and loved ones. The aims of our study is to evaluate disease perceptions, levels of stress, emotional distress, and coping strategies among medical staff (COVID 19 versus non-COVID 19 department) in tertiary pulmonology teaching hospital in the first month after the outbreak of COVID 19. Methods: One hundred fifteen health care workers completed four validated questionnaires (the brief illness perception questionnaire, perceived stress scale, the profile of emotional distress emotional, cognitive coping evaluation questionnaire) that were afterward interpreted by one psychologist. Results: There was a high level of stress and psychological distress among health care workers in the first month after the pandemic outbreak. Interestingly, there was no difference between persons that work on COVID 19 department versus those working in non-COVID 19 department. Disease perceptions and coping mechanism were similar in the two groups. As coping mechanism, refocusing on planning and positive reappraisal were used more than in general population. Conclusions: there is no difference in disease perceptions, levels of stress, emotional distress, and coping strategies in medical staff handling COVID 19 patients versus personal that does not handle COVID patients the first month after the pandemic outbreak

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10.22541/au.159242059.92923486

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The role of overnight pulse-oximetry in recognition of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in morbidly obese and non obese patients.

PubMed (2013)

Stefan Dumitrache‐Rujinski George Călcăianu Dragoş Zaharia Claudia Toma Miron Alexandru Bogdan

We prospectively evaluated 199 individuals with high pre-test clinical suspicion of OSAS. Of these, 123 patients were morbidly obese (Group A) and 76 were non-obese (Group B). We performed six channel cardio-respiratory polygraphy and assessed the correlation between the Desaturation Index (DI) and the Apnea Hypopnea Index (AHI) for both groups.In group A: 116 patients (94.3%) were diagnosed with OSAS (AHI>5/hour); mean age: 59.4±10.9 years; mean BMI: 44.8±4.9 kg/m(2). The mean DI was 47.2±27.6/hour and the mean AHI: 46.5±27.6/hour. Mean average SaO2 was 88.5±6.3 %. In group B, 65 patients (85.52%) were diagnosed with SAS; mean age: 51.2 ± 12.7 years; mean BMI: 27.24±2.2 kg/m(2).The mean DI was 23.12 ± 18.35/hour and the mean AHI: 28.8 ± 18.5/hour. Mean average SaO2 was 93.7±2.07 %.A significant positive correlation (correlation index rA = 0.863 and rB= 0.877) was found between DI and AHI in both groups (p<0.001).Assessment of the Desaturation Index by nocturnal pulse-oximetry maintains its utility as a screening method for OSAS in both obese and non-obese patients with high clinical pre-test suspicion, despite the fact that the basal nocturnal saturation was found to be lower in group A.

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Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma in a Young Patient: A Case Report

Archivos de Bronconeumología (2013)

Bianca Paraschiv Claudia Toma Camelia Cristina Diaconu

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10.1016/j.arbr.2013.04.001

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Investigating the use of specific cognitive emotion regulation strategies in response to the experience of gingival bleeding.

PubMed (2011)

Dumitrescu Al Claudia Toma Lascu

The present study focuses on the extent to which undergraduates use specific cognitive emotion regulation strategies in response to the experience of the gingival bleeding.The present study sample consisted of 190 first year dental students. The questionnaire included information about socio-demographic factors, behavioral variables and self-reported oral health status. To measure the specific emotional cognitive strategies, the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) was used.Self-reported gingival bleeding was associated with statistical significant higher values of self-blame and rumination. Participants who evaluated their self-reported gingival condition as poor/very poor scored higher values on rumination, catastrophising and lower on positive reappraisal, when compared with students with excellent gingival condition. Multiple linear regression analyses revealed that presence of gingival bleeding was an independent determinant of self-blame, rumination and putting into perspective. Among participants with positive self-reported gingival bleeding, reason for dental visits was significantly correlated with positive refocusing, planning, positive reappraisal, putting into perspective and catrastrophizing. Positive reappraisal was found to be a mediating variable in the relationship between gingival status and reason for dental visits. Thus, positive reappraisal helps to explain the association between gingival status and reason for dental visits.Helping patients to challenge these maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies may therefore play an important role on the focus and content of (preventive) oral health behaviour interventions to be developed for patients with gingival and periodontal disease.

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Does Knowing the Impression You Convey to Others Make You a Better Speaker? The Role of Meta-Accuracy in the Context of Public Speaking

Emmanuelle P. Kleinlogel Laetitia A. Renier Marianne Schmid Mast Claudia Toma

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Pulmonary arterial hypertension and lung transplantation: when one severe pathology is replaced by another

Pneumologia (2022)

Andrei Neagu Tudor Constantinescu Claudia Toma Dragoș-Cosmin Zaharia Olguța Corneli

Abstract Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare and severe disease characterised by the progressive narrowing of the small pulmonary arteries resulting in right-sided heart failure. Despite advances in treatment, some PAH patients require lung transplantation, which carries risks of long-term complications. We report the case of a male patient with no significant comorbidities, who developed progressive dyspnoea on exertion at the age of 38 years. After echocardiography and right heart catheterisation, he was confirmed with idiopathic PAH and was started treatment with bosentan, sildenafil and beraprost. After 3 years of stability, the PAH worsened. Treatment with continuous intravenous epoprostenol was introduced in a national premiere, unfortunately with little effect. The patient underwent lung transplantation at the age of 43 years. Afterwards, he developed several complications, including chronic lung allograft dysfunction, post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder and pulmonary embolism. He died at the age of 52 years of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. The case is noteworthy due to the above-average post-transplant survival despite multiple complications.

10.2478/pneum-2023-0014

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Bacterial diversity in water distributed under intermittent water supply

Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases (2025)

E. G. W. Gunawardana B. G. D. S. Bandarawaththa Yukuto Sato Claudia Toma Chandika D. Gamage

10.4038/sljid.v14i5.8798

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