What are the short-term effects of #vaping and #tobacco #smoke on lung ventilation and perfusion?

Inspired from a recent study in @radiology_rsna by Nyilas, Bauman et al. pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ra…

#tweetorial thread 👇 BACKGROUND:

Randomized control trials suggest that #vaping
can effectively support #smoking cessation.

What is the effect of #vaping on airway inflammation and airway resistance?

#FEMMEtrial @NEJM @SIRspecialists: Myomectomy resulted in a significantly better quality of life and lower symptom severity than uterine-artery embolization, although both procedures resulted in substantial improvement as compared with baseline. (1/n) The mean scores on the health-related quality-of-life domain of the UFS-QOL questionnaire at 2 years were substantially higher than the baseline scores in both groups, but the magnitude of improvement was greater in the myomectomy group than in the UFE group (2/n)

Finally got the time to read this excellent study by @SandeepBaglaMD @RPiechowiakDO @AriIsaacsonMD in @JVIRmedia: "Genicular Artery Embolization for the Treatment of Knee Pain Secondary to Osteoarthritis" (jvir.org/article/S1051-…) (1/8) Need for alternate to medical therapy: Long term complications, including liver dysfunction, renal dysfunction, gastrointestinal ulceration, and opiate addiction.

Why now? Recently discovered chronic inflammatory component causing synovial angiogenesis (2/8)