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Brain-lung crosstalk

Guest Editors:
Denise Battaglini: Consultant in Neuro and General Intensive Care, Policlinico San Martino Hospital, Italy
Chiara Robba: Consultant in Neuro and General Intensive Care, Policlinico San Martino Hospital, Italy
James A. Town: Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
 

BMC Pulmonary Medicine called for submissions to our Collection on Brain-lung crosstalk. Brain-injured patients are more likely to develop respiratory disorders and vice versa because the brain and the lungs communicate through complex bi-directional pathways which are not yet fully understood.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Denise Battaglini: Consultant in Neuro and General Intensive Care, Policlinico San Martino Hospital, Italy

Denise Battaglini is Consultant in Intensive Care at San Martino Policlinico Hospital, Genoa, Italy. Dr Battaglini is attending a PhD in Translational Medicine at the University of Barcelona, Spain. She attended two research fellowhips in pneumonia and respiratory physiotherapy at the University of Barcelona, Spain, and in neurological and pulmonary critical care at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is involved in several research projects regarding critical care management of patients with pulmonary and neurological diseases, neurological complications of COVID-19 ARDS, ventilator-associated pneumonia, respiratory physiotherapy, and lung-and-gut microbiota in neurocritically ill patients.


Chiara Robba: Consultant in Neuro and General Intensive Care, Policlinico San Martino Hospital, Italy

Chiara Robba is a Consultant in Neuro and General Intensive Care at Policlinico San Martino, Genova. She worked for many years at Addenbrookes Hospital, in Cambridge and she got a PhD in Neuroscience under the supervision of Prof Marek Czosnyka. She is currently Chair-Elect of the Neuro Intensive Care section of the ESICM. Her research interests are mainly on Neuromonitoring, autoregulation and mechanical ventilation.
 

James A. Town: Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Dr Town is an Assistant Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington.  He works in the Intensive Care Units at Harborview Medical Center where he is also the Director of the Medical ICU.  His clinical and academic interests are in quality improvement, post-cardiac arrest care, bedside ultrasound and medical education.

About the collection

BMC Pulmonary Medicine is calling for submissions to our Collection on Brain-lung crosstalk. 

Brain-injured patients are more likely to develop respiratory disorders and vice versa because the brain and the lungs communicate through complex bi-directional pathways which are not yet fully understood. There is a need for increased knowledge of the neuroanatomical, humoral, immune and metabolic pathways that the brain and lung use to talk to each other. Therefore, BMC Pulmonary Medicine has launched this call for papers to bring together research on the mechanisms underlying cross-talk between the brain and the lungs as well as studies investigating the epidemiology, pathophysiology and management of lung disorders in brain-injured patients.

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  1. Society is burdened with stroke-associated pneumonia (SAP) after intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH). Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) complicates clinical manifestations of stroke. In this study, we redefined...

    Authors: Wenru Zhang, Ying Zhou, Liuhui Xu, Chaomin Qiu, Zhixian Luo, Zhenghao Jiang, Xinyi Tao, Yingjie Wu, Shishi Yao, Hang Huang, Xinshi Wang, Yunjun Yang and Ru Lin
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:357
  2. In the general intensive care unit (ICU) women receive invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) less frequently than men. We investigated whether sex differences in the use of IMV also exist in the neurocritical ...

    Authors: Federica Stretti, Didar Utebay, Stefan Yu Bögli and Giovanna Brandi
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:284
  3. Recent studies have drawn increasing attention to brain-lung crosstalk in critically ill patients. However, further research is needed to investigate the pathophysiological interactions between the brain and l...

    Authors: Sarah Wahlster, James A. Town, Denise Battaglini and Chiara Robba
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2023 23:180

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Brain-lung crosstalk" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.