Advances in Respiratory Medicine, Volume 86, Issue 2

Introduction: Patients with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) have increasing rates of hospitalization. We analyzed the burden and predictors of thirty-day readmission among patients with CF in the U.S. Material and methods: Nationwide Readmission Database (NRD)...

Introduction: The aim of the study was to measure the concentrations of vitamin D in serum of COPD patients with chronic respiratory failure in comparison to healthy control group. The correlation between the levels of vitamin D in serum and the sele...

Introduction: Studies of coping with stress of parents of children with cystic fibrosis (CF) are relatively rare and their results are inconsistent. The aim of the work was to determine the strategies of coping with stress of Polish mothers of childr...

Differentiation between pulmonary tuberculosis and lung cancer is often challenging for clinicians, especially that both conditions can coexist. This is due to the fact that the clinical and radiological symptoms of both diseases can be similar. Our...

We are presenting a case of acrometastasis in a male patient with lung adenocarcinoma. Acrometastases accumulate for 0.1% of all metastatic bone lesions and can be the first manifestation of cancer in approximately 10% of cases. The main clinical man...

Transthoracic ultrasound has lately emerged as a useful diagnostic tool for respiratory physicians in the diagnosis of diverse pulmonary diseases, usually including pleural effusion and pneumothorax. However, the use of chest ultrasound may be also c...

Asthma—a prolonged respiratory disease related with hyper-responsiveness and increased inflammation of airways; affects millions peoples worldwide. Vitamin D possess anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory activities. Its deficiency (the level less th...

With great interest, we read the article by Torbiarczyk et al. on bronchoscopy in diagnosis of haemoptysis (Adv Respir Med. 2018; 86: 13–16) [...]

Thank you very much for your interest in our recent study on the use of bronchoscopy for eval- uation of bleeding [...]