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Advances in Respiratory Medicine, Volume 85, Issue 2

2017 April - 12 articles

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Articles (12)

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
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Editors Note

  • Wojciech Piotrowski,
  • Maciej Kupczyk and
  • Adam Białas

The Editors of Advances in Respiratory Medicine would like to warmly welcome new members of the Scientific Advisory Board. Our invitation to join the Board was kindly accepted by Professor Christer Janson and Professor Raffaele Antonelli Incalzi [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
890 Views
9 Pages

Comorbidity in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Lung Cancer. Do We Have an Adequate Tool to Assess It?

  • Marta Lembicz,
  • Piotr Gabryel,
  • Beata Brajer-Luftmann,
  • Wojciech Dyszkiewicz and
  • Halina Batura-Gabryel

Introduction: In the recent years comorbidity has been discussed as a factor affecting therapeutic decisions, the course of treatment, and prognosis of patients with lung cancer. The aim of the study was 1. to evaluate the occurrence of comorbidities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
1,088 Views
5 Pages

Initial Polish Experience of Flexible 19 Gauge Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration

  • Maciej Gnass,
  • Joanna Sola,
  • Anna Filarecka,
  • Stanisław Orzechowski,
  • Piotr Kocoń,
  • Monika Pasieka-Lis,
  • Juliusz Pankowski,
  • Lucyna Rudnicka,
  • Jerzy Soja and
  • Artur Szlubowski

Introduction: EBUS is a well established minimally invasive diagnostic tool for mediastinal and hilar lymphadenopathy. The novel ViziShot Flex 19G needle (Olympus Respiratory America, Redmond, WA, USA) was introduced in 2015 in order to improve loade...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
1,345 Views
8 Pages

Introduction: Cancer-related fatigue is one of the most common problems of patients with lung cancer. The assessment of cancer-related fatigue is therefore a significant medical problem in patients during treatment with palliative chemotherapy. Mater...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
1,086 Views
10 Pages

Nationwide Trends in Inpatient Admissions of Pulmonary Hypertension in the United States from 2000 to 2013

  • Rutuja R. Sikachi,
  • Sonu Sahni,
  • Dhruv Mehta,
  • Abhishek Agarwal and
  • Abhinav Agrawal

Introduction: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a disorder of the pulmonary vasculature with high mortality and bears a large economic burden on the healthcare system. We conducted a review of the largest inpatient database in the United States and anal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
905 Views
10 Pages

Introduction: The objective of the study was to compare online behaviour in groups of persons suffering from respiratory allergy and/or asthma and in the reference group. Material and methods: Comparative analysis of two independent questionnaire stu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
94 Citations
2,757 Views
12 Pages

Socioeconomic Status and Its Relationship to Chronic Respiratory Disease

  • Sonu Sahni,
  • Ankoor Talwar,
  • Sameer Khanijo and
  • Arunabh Talwar

24 April 2017

Socioeconomic status (SES) is defined as an individual’s social or economic standing, and is a measure of an individual’s or family’s social or economic position or rank in a social group. It is a composite of several measures including income, educa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
876 Views
7 Pages

Selected Bone Morphogenetic Proteins—The Possibility of Their Use in the Diagnostics and Therapy of Severe Asthma

  • Marcelina Koćwin,
  • Mateusz Jonakowski,
  • Marcelina Przemęcka,
  • Michał Panek and
  • Piotr Kuna

24 April 2017

Asthma is a chronic heterogeneous illness of the lower airway with an inflammatory basis, developing from hyperresponsiveness and bronchial obstruction. One of the more unfavourable processes occurring in the airway are the long-term changes of the r...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,068 Views
5 Pages

Speech Therapy—A Non-Pharmacological Method to Manage Difficult-to-treat Chronic Cough

  • Karolina Krakowiak,
  • Marta Dąbrowska,
  • Filip Buła,
  • Anna Łobacz,
  • Dorota Rojek,
  • Elżbieta M. Grabczak,
  • Antoni Krzeski and
  • Rafał Krenke

24 April 2017

Cough is the most common symptom of respiratory diseases. The results of management of chronic cough in adults are still unsatisfactory. Unexplained and difficult-to-treat chronic cough causes significant impairment in patients‘ quality of life. The...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
744 Views
3 Pages

Massive Nasal Polyposis in a Patient with Newly Diagnosed Cystic Fibrosis

  • Małgorzata Olszowiec-Chlebna,
  • Krzysztof Trzciński and
  • Iwona Stelmach

24 April 2017

Introduction: Cystic fibrosis (CF)—is the most common fatal autosomal recessive disease in Caucasians. A number of reports have described patients who do not meet diagnostic criteria for cystic fibrosis. Atypical or nonclassic CF is characterised by...

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