The following is a summary of “Trans-bronchial forceps biopsy for COVID-19 related diffuse parenchymal lung abnormalities,” published in the December 2024 issue of Pulmonology by Kleymann et al. The ...

Nov. 6, 2024 — Exhaled breath contains chemical clues to what's going on inside the body, including diseases like lung cancer. And devising ways to sense these compounds could help doctors ...

Mean disease duration range was 7.0-31 years. Average age of participants was 30.6 to 57.2, and majority were males (57.1-100%). The most common pulmonary manifestation (40-90%) was pleuro-parenchymal ...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive and ultimately fatal disorder for which there is no cure. While the disease is by definition idiopathic, accumulating evidence, including ...

This test is used to evaluate your lung function, and you may need to have your FRC measured before lung surgery or if you have a lung disease such as emphysema or chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

Quantitative assessment of the proliferative response of bronchoalveolar mononuclear cells to specific agents is a useful diagnostic test; a well-studied example is chronic beryllium disease.

Not all patients with deterioration in pulmonary function tests have a progressive disease: 30% of patients develop progressive lung disease and only 16% will develop severe lung fibrosis (defined ...

Whooping cough is generally considered a pediatric disease. People generally believe that childhood vaccinations offer protection for life, ‘which is completely not true,’ according to Dr ...

Long-term survival after lung transplantation is limited due to chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD ... dd-cfDNA levels in different clinical conditions over time in CLAD patients, distinguishing ...