Oct. 28, 2024 — An abnormal BMI in children -- be it high or low -- can now be associated with impaired lung function, but if their BMI is normalized before they reach adulthood, the impairment ...

Bronchogenic carcinoma: Unilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is common, with or without paratracheal lymphadenopathy. The appearance of the primary lung cancer (not visible in all cases) is often a ...

Sarcoidosis is a systemic disease of unknown etiology. It is characterized by the presence of non-necrotizing granulomas distributed along the lymphatics in the peribronchovascular (axial ...

Drug Improves Effectiveness of Radiation for Lung Cancer That Has Spread to the Brain Oct. 4, 2024 — The University of Cincinnati's Debanjan Bhattacharya is first author of new research ...

Lung-RADS ® is a quality assurance tool designed to standardize lung cancer screening CT reporting and management recommendations, reduce confusion in lung cancer screening CT interpretations, and ...

Because pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) often causes shortness of breath, swelling, and fatigue, exercise may seem like the last thing you should do. But the right kind -- with your doctor ...

The UAB Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine is an integral part of one of the nation's largest health systems. Nationally known for our compassionate care, cutting-edge research, ...

Lung transplant is an uncommon treatment for lung cancer. It is only considered in very rare circumstances, such as for patients in the early stage of a certain type of lung adenocarcinoma. Lung ...

Whole-body positron emission tomography-CT was performed during maintenance treatment with serplulimab, which showed primary lung, liver, and bone metastatic lesions with CR. However, several ...

A 2.5 cm mass abutting the right hilum was found on an employment screening chest radiograph in a 31 year old ... At 6 month follow up a repeat CT scan showed a 4 mm increase in size and a right ...

EGFR-positive lung cancer is a type of lung cancer with an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation. In the United States, around 10% to 15% of lung cancers are EGFR-positive. Most of these ...

1 Department of Oncology, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China 2 Graduate School of Peking Union ...