Advances in Respiratory Medicine, Volume 89, Issue 1

Introduction: Inhaled medication is the cornerstone of pharmacological treatment for chronic respiratory diseases. Therefore, it is important to use a metered-dose inhaler (MDI) correctly to get the appropriate dosage and benefit from the drug. Healt...

Introduction: Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is an effective approach for patients with chronic pulmonary disease, and it is also recommended for patients with bronchiectasis. The aims of the current study were to evaluate the efficacy of a multidisci...

Objectives: To assess the diagnostic performance of HACOR scoring system using bedside variables and to predict failure of HFNO in patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (AHRF). Material and methods: 150 patients with AHRF who were receiv...

Introduction: Narrow band imaging (NBI) video bronchoscopy provides better visualisation of submucosal vascular patterns in malignant airway lesions compared to white light bronchoscopy. This analytical cross-sectional study was aimed to look for any...

Introduction: Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is the standard diagnostic method for sampling mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes. Non-diagnostic samples have led some pulmonologists to add a miniforceps biop...

We read with great interest the paper by Barycka et al. [...]

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a type of pneumonia classified as a nosocomial infection associated with mechanical ventilation which occurs 48–72 hours after endotracheal intubation [...]

Introduction: One important concern during the management of COVID-19 pneumonia patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure is early anticipation of the need for intubation. ROX is an index that can help in identification of patients with low a...

Since the onset of the current pandemic of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) [...]

Pandemic of COVID-19 has brought a pletho-ra of challenges throughout the world and has opened exposed gaps in already overburdened stressful health system [...]

Since the beginning of the pandemic, there is an increasing pressure on our healthcare systems to cope with the increasing workload [...]

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a specific form of chronic fibrosing interstitial pneumonia that has an unknown etiology. The natural history of the disease is characterized by a progressive decline in pulmonary function and overall health and...

Thymic cancer is a rare malignant neoplasm [...]

Awake proning is being used as an adjunct to the current therapies for patients with cooronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) related hypoxemic respiratory failure [...]

Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic enceph-alomyelitis (CFS/ME) is a complex [...]

A 55-year-old female complained of recurrent haemoptysis [...]

A COVID-19 diagnosis is usually based on PCR detection of viral RNA in airway specimens in a patient with typical clinical fea-tures. Histological features of the COVID-19 lung disease are reported from autopsies. Transbronchial cryobiopsy (TBCB) is...

Emphysema sequentially leads to the loss of gas exchanging surface and an abnormal shape of the diaphragm generating dyspnea refractory to standard medical therapy. Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) is a surgical treatment option for patients with...

COVID-19 has spread throughout the world infecting 8,018,963 people and claiming 436,138 lives to date [...]

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) primarily being considered as a respiratory illness has been showing a highly diverse and anomalous array of symptoms since its origin in December 2019 [...]

Streptomyces belongs to the Actinomycetes group of bacteria which are gram-positive non acid-fast bacilli, widely recognised for their potential to produce antimicrobials active against bacterial, mycobacterial, parasitic and fungal infections. They...

Takayasu arteritis (TA) poses a diagnostic challenge as it may have a myriad of clinical presentations. Dyspnea, as an index presentation in TA, may be secondary to the involvement of the aorta, myocardium, and/or the pulmonary vessels, or can presen...

The novel corona virus pandemic has the world in its grip and infection with COVID-19 has proven to be beyond a pulmonary disease [...]

Primary pleural synovial sarcoma (PPSS) is a rare malignant pleural tumor comprising < 1% of all primary lung malignancies. Primary pleural mesothelioma (PPM) has many similar features that may cause a diagnostic dilemma due to overlapping clinica...

Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome (BHDS) is an uncommon autosomal dominant syndrome. It is also known as Hornstein–Knickenberg syndrome. It is an inherited disorder culminating in mutations in folliculin coding gene (FLCN). The clinical exhibitions of the syn-...