2017 April - 12 articles
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 [...]
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We read with interest the report by Karakatsani and associates on corticosteroids and hip fracture risk in elderly respiratory patients: EPIC-Greece cohort [...]
We appreciate Drs. Tamura and Satoh’s interest in our work and the opportunity they give us to respond to their four questions [...]
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