Advances in Respiratory Medicine, Volume 88, Issue 2

Spirometry is a commonly performed assessment of lung function for diagnostic purposes as well as for monitoring of chronic lung diseases [...]

Introduction: The effects of mold sensitivity on the development and course of asthma have been researched previously, although study results vary. We sought to evaluate the characteristics of our mold-sensitive patients in comparison with those of o...

Introduction: The purpose is to evaluate the prognostic significance of lung parenchymal density during percutaneous coaxial cutting needle lung biopsy (PNLB). Materials and methods: Retrospective analysis of 179 consecutive patients (106 males, 73 f...

Introduction: Neutrophils are involved in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Myeloperoxidase is an important bactericidal granulocytic enzyme. It is of interest to question whether or not the polymorphic variants of the...

Introduction: Transbronchial lung cryobiopsy (TBLC) is commonly used in diagnosing interstitial lung diseases (ILDs). Ageneral anesthesia with endotracheal intubation, balloon blockers and fluoroscopy control is the most common modality. Simplifying...

Introduction: Inducible laryngeal obstruction (ILO) is an important cause of a variety of respiratory symptoms and can mimic bronchial asthma (BA). This study was planned to measure the prevalence of ILO among patients diagnosed with BA and to detect...

Mediastinal cysts are typically of bronchogenic, thymic or neurenteric origin, but may also represent oesophageal duplication. Posterior paravertebral mediastinal Müllerian cysts of undetermined pathogenesis are very rare occurrences. The first case...

Acute eosinophilic pneumonia (AEP) is characterized by an acute onset respiratory illness with bilateral chest infiltrates and evidence of pulmonary eosinophilia. Cigarette smoking is the main risk factor, but drugs and other inhalational exposures h...

Introduction: Treatment among advanced stage idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is quite challenging, especially considering that no major evidence has been released about it. This Case Report demonstrates and discusses the benefit of non-invasive mechani...

The presence of pulmonary oxalosis in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) or biopsied tissue samples is considered pathognomonic for Aspergillus disease etiology. The finding of calcium oxalate crystals in the tissue samples infected with aspergillosis can...

Introduction: Metallic mercury poisoning through intravenous injection is rare, especially as part of a suicide attempt. Diagnosis and treatment of the disease are challenging as clinical features are not specific. Material and metods: A 41-year-old...

A 32-year-old male heavy smoker presented to outside hospital with history of cough and shortness of breath for 20 days [...]

A 59-year-old married male, a known case of line probe assay-confirmed multidrug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis was treated with kanamycin, levofloxacin, ethionamide, ethambutol, pyrazinamide and cycloserine for seven months [...]

A 26-year-old Caucasian male was referred to the Sleep and Respiratory Disorders Centre with a past medical history of polycythemia and hypoxemia with chronic respiratory alkalosis [...]

Amiodarone, a common anti-arrhythmic drug, is well known for its pulmonary toxicity [...]

It all started in the last week of December 2019 when the World Health Organization (WHO) was alerted regarding several respiratory infections localized to a city in China [...]