Advances in Respiratory Medicine, Volume 89, Issue 2

Introduction: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), is a significant global public health threat. Besides extensive multidrug resistance, MTB possesses several properties for long-term viability in the host as we...

Introduction: Investigations have described a correlation between the severity of heart failure and the severity of pulmonary function abnormalities. In this study, we investigated the association of resting spirometric parameters, lung diffusion for...

Introduction: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is one of the greatest clinical challenges of the last decades. Clinical factors associated with severity of the disease remain unclear. The aim of the study was to characterize Polish patients ho...

Introduction: The novel coronavirus pandemic has caused significant mortality throughout the world. This study was done as there is scarce data on mortality predictors in severe COVID-19 pneumonia patients admitted to ICU in the Indian population. Ma...

Since the report of the first cases of pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 in December 2019, COVID-19 has become a pandemic and is globally overwhelming healthcare systems. The symptoms of COVID-19 vary from asymptomatic infection to severe complicated pn...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a disease of significant importance, which may lead to numerous severe clinical consequences. The gold standard in the diagnosis of this sleep-related breathing disorder (SRBD) is polysomnography (PSG). However, due t...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is an exponentially spreading pandemic with more than 36 million confirmed cases and over one million deaths worldwide, all within...

Introduction: There is increasing scientific interest in the possible association between hypovitaminosis D and the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection severity and/or mortality. Objective: To conduct a metanalysis of the association between 25-hydroxyvita...

The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 disease is predominantly a respiratory illness that is highly contagious and is spread by droplet transmission. It causes a spectrum of illnesses from a mild sore throat to serious viral pneumonia requiring hospitalis...

Introduction: Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is useful for diagnosing diffuse lung disease and excluding other conditions. However, acute exacerbations (AEs) are recognized as important complications of BAL in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosi...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is associated with vaso-occlusive episodes that affect different organs. Pulmonary involvement is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in this patient population. We performed a literature search in the PubMed database...

The current pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has taken a toll on our already overburdened healthcare system [...]

The ultrasonographic evaluation and sam-pling of mediastinal lesions by endobronchial ul-trasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) or endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) is the standard of care for adult p...

Since the onset of the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there have been attempts to identify medications for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) [...]

Introduction: Patients experience substantial morbidity following discharge from hospital and during recovery from communi-ty-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Inspiratory muscle training (IMT) has demonstrated improved functional capacity and reduced patien...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is currently considered a significant threat to global health and global economy. This new rapidly spreading virus causes enormous stress to he...

Carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae is an emerging threat worldwide. The appropriate therapy for infections due to these multidrug-resistant pathogens is not well defined and depends upon the susceptibilities of individual isolates, and the...

A 65 years old male, chronic smoker (30 pack years), presented with complaints of dyspnea (mMRC grade2), cough (dry in nature), loss of appetite, loss of weight (> 5 kgs), weakness, bony pains, feverish feeling and easy fatigability for last 2–3 m...

A 36-year-old drug addict presented to the emergency room after intravenously injecting 20 milliliters of pure gasoline [...]

Pneumothorax is a commonly encountered condition in clinical practice [...]

The discovery of a malignant pleural effusion indicates metastatic disease and thus invariably results in the highest possible cancer stage. Although the female reproductive tract overall is a common primary tumor site giving rise to malignant pleura...

Infant respiratory distress syndrome (IRDS) develops among premature infants due to structural immaturity of the lungs and insufficient production of pulmonary surfactant. Nowadays, treatment takes place under conditions of intensive care and include...