Authors: de Diego Damiá A, Vega Chicote JM Bronchial asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects both the large-caliber airways and the smaller-caliber bronchioles. In the last few years, a major therapeutic advance has been made with the development of new systems of inhalation solutions, which produce extra-fine particles, achieving better lung deposition throughout the airways and reducing oropharyngeal deposition. These formulations have improved the effectiveness of bronchodilation and particularly the antiinflammatory effect. The use of long-acting b2-adrenergic steroids in extra-fine formulation, whether alone or in combinations of fixed doses, improves drug distribution throughout the bronchial tree, enhancing the therapeutic effect with lower doses of drugs. Leukotr...

Authors: Campo-Cañaveral de la Cruz JL, Herrero Collantes J, Sánchez Lorente D, Torres Lanzas J Despite the numerous differences among the distinct diseases of the chest wall, the surgery of this area shows certain common features. Treatment has progressively changed in the last few years due to advances in diagnostic techniques, minimally invasive procedures and reconstruction materials, and especially due to the multidisciplinary management of many diseases. Nuss' minimally invasive correction of pectus excavatum has gained devotees, although open approaches are performed with increasingly small incisions, almost comparable to the lateral incisions in Nuss' technique. Surgeons supporting the open approach also cite the evident disadvantages of the need for a steel implant for 2 or ...