Questions and Answers on Smoking in Patients With Diffuse ILD. Use of PICO Methodology. / Preguntas y respuestas relacionadas con tabaquismo en pacientes con EPID. Aplicación de metodología con formato PICO.

INTRODUCTION: The Smoking and the Diffuse Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD) groups of ALAT and SEPAR collaborated in the preparation of this document. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This document uses PICO methodology to answer various questions on the relationship between tobacco use and diffuse ILD. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The main recommendations are: a) moderate level of evidence and strong recommendation to consider smoking as a risk factor for the development and/or modification of the progression of diffuse ILD; b) moderate level of evidence to identify an increase in mortality in diffuse ILD, irrespective of histologic pattern. Low evidence for ascribing it to smoking and strong recommendation for the early identification of patients with diffuse ILD. Further studies are needed to evaluate the effect of smoking cessation in patients with diffuse ILD; c) low level of evidence and weak recommendation for defining the impact of passive smoking in diffuse ILD; d) low level of evidence to demonstrate that smoking cessation improves the outcomes of patients diagnosed with diffuse ILD and strong recommendation to advise smoking cessation in smokers with diffuse ILD, and e) low level of evidence to support the clinical or epidemiological usefulness of active case finding for diffuse ILD in smoking cessation programs, and strong recommendation justifying the performance of spirometry in active case finding, based not on current smoking status, but on previous accumulated consumption, even in asymptomatic cases.

Inflammatory profiles in severe pneumonia associated with the pandemic influenza A/H1N1 virus isolated in Mexico City.

The immune mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of severe pneumonia associated with the A/H1N1 virus are not well known. The objective of this study was to determine whether severe A/H1N1-associated pneumonia can be explained by the emergence of particular T-cell subsets and the cytokines/chemokines they produced, as well as distinct responses to infection. T-cell subset distribution and cytokine/chemokine levels in peripheral blood and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) were determined in patients with severe A/H1N1 infection, asymptomatic household contacts, and healthy controls. Cytokine and chemokine production was also evaluated after in vitro infection with seasonal H1N1 and pandemic A/H1N1 strains. We found an increase in the frequency of peripheral Th2 and Tc2 cells in A/H1N1 patients. A trend toward increased Tc1 cells was observed in household contacts. Elevated serum levels of IL-6, CXCL8, and CCL2 were found in patients and a similar cytokine/chemokine profile was observed in BAL, in which CCL5 was also increased. Infection assays revealed that both strains induce the production of several cytokines/chemokines at 24 and 72 h, however, IL-6, CCL3, and CXCL8 were strongly up-regulated in 72-h cultures in presence of the A/H1N1 virus. Several inflammatory mediators are up-regulated in peripheral and lung samples from A/H1N1-infected patients who developed severe pneumonia. In addition, the A/H1N1 strain induces higher levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines than the seasonal H1N1 strain. These findings suggest that it is possible to identify biomarkers of severe pneumonia and also suggest the therapeutic use of immunomodulatory drugs in patients with severe pneumonia associated with A/H1N1 infection.

Preguntas y respuestas relacionadas con tabaquismo en pacientes con EPID. Aplicación de metodología con formato PICO / Questions and Answers on Smoking in Patients With Diffuse ILD. Use of PICO Methodology

INTRODUCCIÓN: Los grupos de Tabaquismo y de Enfermedades Pulmonares Intersticiales Difusas (EPID) de ALAT y SEPAR han colaborado para la realización de este documento. MATERIAL Y MÉTODOS: En el mismo se da respuesta, siguiendo metodología PICO, a diferentes interrogantes sobre la relación entre el consumo de tabaco y las EPID. RESULTADOS Y CONCLUSIONES: Sus principales recomendaciones son: a) evidencia moderada y recomendación fuerte para considerar el tabaquismo como un factor de riesgo para el desarrollo y/o modificador de la progresión de EPID; b) evidencia moderada para identificar que existe un incremento de la mortalidad en la EPID independientemente de su patrón histológico. Evidencia baja para adjudicarlo al tabaquismo y recomendación fuerte para identificar a los pacientes con EPID precozmente. Se hacen necesarios nuevos estudios que evalúen el efecto de la cesación tabáquica en los pacientes con EPID; c) evidencia baja y recomendación débil para definir el impacto del tabaquismo de segunda mano en la EPID; d) evidencia baja para demostrar que la cesación tabáquica mejora los resultados de los pacientes diagnosticados de EPID y recomendación fuerte para aconsejar la cesación tabáquica en casos de EPID en fumadores, y e) evidencia baja que demuestre la utilidad clínica o epidemiológica de la búsqueda activa de los casos de EPID en los programas de cesación tabáquica y recomendación fuerte para justificar la realización de espirometría durante esta búsqueda independientemente del estatus actual de tabaquismo pero con la dosis acumulada previamente, aun en casos asintomáticos

INTRODUCTION: The Smoking and the Diffuse Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD) groups of ALAT and SEPAR collaborated in the preparation of this document. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This document uses PICO methodology to answer various questions on the relationship between tobacco use and diffuse ILD. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The main recommendations are: a) moderate level of evidence and strong recommendation to consider smoking as a risk factor for the development and/or modification of the progression of diffuse ILD; b) moderate level of evidence to identify an increase in mortality in diffuse ILD, irrespective of histologic pattern. Low evidence for ascribing it to smoking and strong recommendation for the early identification of patients with diffuse ILD. Further studies are needed to evaluate the effect of smoking cessation in patients with diffuse ILD; c) low level of evidence and weak recommendation for defining the impact of passive smoking in diffuse ILD; d) low level of evidence to demonstrate that smoking cessation improves the outcomes of patients diagnosed with diffuse ILD and strong recommendation to advise smoking cessation in smokers with diffuse ILD, and e) low level of evidence to support the clinical or epidemiological usefulness of active case finding for diffuse ILD in smoking cessation programs, and strong recommendation justifying the performance of spirometry in active case finding, based not on current smoking status, but on previous accumulated consumption, even in asymptomatic cases