[Pneumology and Sports: An Outpatient Endurance Training with Sports Medical Guidance as an Effective Non-pharmacological Therapy in Pneumology - a Feasibility Study].

Background: In the process of medical rehabilitation muscular endurance training is the main focus. Unfortunately, outpatient rehabilitation opportunities are limited and specialized pulmonary exercise groups ("lung sport groups") rarely available. Therefore we developed an outpatient endurance sports program for patients with respiratory diseases and evaluated its effectiveness.

Diagnostic yield of transbronchial cryobiopsy in non-neoplastic lung disease: a retrospective case series.

Background: Due to the small amount of alveolar tissue in transbronchial biopsy (TBB) by forceps, the diagnosis of diffuse, parenchymal lung diseases (DPLD) is inherently problematic, with an overall low yield. The use of cryotechnique in bronchoscopy, including TBB by cryoprobe, has revealed new opportunities in the endoscopical diagnosis of malignant and non-malignant lung diseases.

Methods: To evaluate TBB by cryotechnique for non-neoplastic lung diseases, we analyzed 52 patients (mean age 63 ± 13 years) with unclear DPLD.

Reduced oxygen uptake efficiency slope in patients with cardiac sarcoidosis.

Background: The non-invasive diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) is difficult. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has become a very valuable diagnostic tool in patients with suspected CS, but usually a combination of different tests is used. Oxygen uptake efficiency slope (OUES) is a parameter of cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET), which is used as an indicator for cardiovascular impairment.

[Diagnostic yield and safety of bronchoscopic cryotechnique in routine diagnostics for suspected lung cancer].

Background: Cryoprobes with flexible catheters are an additional important tool for endobronchial interventional therapy and histologic diagnosis. Different studies compared the diagnostic effectiveness and complications to the forceps as a standard. However, routine endoscopic procedures require a combined use of different methods in order to achieve the highest diagnostic yield.