[HTML][HTML] A physiological approach to understand the role of respiratory effort in the progression of lung injury in SARS-CoV-2 infection

P Cruces, J Retamal, DE Hurtado, B Erranz, P Iturrieta… - Critical Care, 2020 - Springer
Deterioration of lung function during the first week of COVID-19 has been observed when
patients remain with insufficient respiratory support. Patient self-inflicted lung injury (P-SILI) …

3D printed deformable sensors

Z Zhu, HS Park, MC McAlpine - Science advances, 2020 - science.org
The ability to directly print compliant biomedical devices on live human organs could benefit
patient monitoring and wound treatment, which requires the 3D printer to adapt to the …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 ARDS: points to be considered in mechanical ventilation and weaning

E Kondili, D Makris, D Georgopoulos, N Rovina… - Journal of Personalized …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 disease can cause hypoxemic respiratory failure due to ARDS, requiring
invasive mechanical ventilation. Although early studies reported that COVID-19-associated …

Multiscale modeling of lung mechanics: from alveolar microstructure to pulmonary function

DE Hurtado, N Avilés-Rojas, F Concha - … of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The mechanical behavior of the lungs has long been associated with the structural
properties of alveoli in pulmonary medicine. However, this structure-function relationship …

[HTML][HTML] Progression of regional lung strain and heterogeneity in lung injury: assessing the evolution under spontaneous breathing and mechanical ventilation

DE Hurtado, B Erranz, F Lillo, M Sarabia-Vallejos… - Annals of intensive …, 2020 - Springer
Background Protective mechanical ventilation (MV) aims at limiting global lung deformation
and has been associated with better clinical outcomes in acute respiratory distress …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanics of pulmonary airways: linking structure to function through constitutive modeling, biochemistry, and histology

M Eskandari, TM Nordgren, GD O'Connell - Acta biomaterialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Breathing involves fluid-solid interactions in the lung; however, the lack of experimental data
inhibits combining the mechanics of air flow to airway deformation, challenging the …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction of treatment response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer via early changes in tumor heterogeneity captured by DCE-MRI registration

N Jahani, E Cohen, MK Hsieh, SP Weinstein… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
We analyzed DCE-MR images from 132 women with locally advanced breast cancer from
the I-SPY1 trial to evaluate changes of intra-tumor heterogeneity for augmenting early …

[HTML][HTML] Diseased and healthy murine local lung strains evaluated using digital image correlation

TM Nelson, KAM Quiros, EC Dominguez, A Ulu… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Tissue remodeling in pulmonary disease irreversibly alters lung functionality and impacts
quality of life. Mechanical ventilation is amongst the few pulmonary interventions to aid …

Mechanical and morphological characterization of the emphysematous lung tissue

B Villa, B Erranz, P Cruces, J Retamal, DE Hurtado - Acta Biomaterialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Irreversible alveolar airspace enlargement is the main characteristic of pulmonary
emphysema, which has been extensively studied using animal models. While the alterations …

[HTML][HTML] Whole-lung finite-element models for mechanical ventilation and respiratory research applications

N Avilés-Rojas, DE Hurtado - Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Mechanical ventilation has been a vital treatment for Covid-19 patients with respiratory
failure. Lungs assisted with mechanical ventilators present a wide variability in their …