DEVELOPMENT OF A CORE OUTCOME SET FOR CONGENITAL PULMONARY AIRWAY MALFORMATIONS: STUDY PROTOCOL OF AN INTERNATIONAL DELPHI SURVEY

Development of a core outcome set for congenital pulmonary airway malformations: study protocol of an international Delphi survey

Introduction A worldwide lack of consensus exists on the optimal management of asymptomatic congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM) even though the incidence is increasing.Either a surgical resection is performed or a wait-and-see policy is employed, depending on the treating physician.Management is largely based on expert opinion and scien

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Exercise-induced oxidative stress: Friend or foe?

The first report demonstrating that prolonged endurance exercise promotes oxidative stress in humans was published more than 4 decades ago.Since this discovery, many ensuing investigations have corroborated the fact that muscular exercise increases the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and results in oxidative stress in numerous tissues i

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