Advances in Respiratory Medicine, Volume 89, Issue 6

Previous studies have demonstrated that a cumulative dose of methylprednisolone more than 200 mg could suppress the immune cells resulting in prolonged severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 shedding in patients with coronavirus...

Introduction: Nebulisation therapy plays a key role in the treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF). Its effectiveness depends on obtaining a high concentration of drugs in the respiratory tract. Particle deposition is determined by many factors resulting,...

Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an inflammatory disease, and serum albumin and fibrinogen are two important factors in systemic inflammation. We aimed to investigate the relationship between the fibrinogen-to-albumin ratio (FAR)...

A divorced 37-year-old male from an urban enviroment with a history of known childhood tuberculosis (TB) complained of having the following symptoms over the past 3 months: anorexia, fatigue, exertional dys-pnea, left-sided chest pain, excess sweatin...

Established treatment regimens for the autosomal dominant hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome, denominated Job syndrome, are lacking. Thus, Job syndrome still exerts a dramatic impact on patients’ quality of life. Our aim was to present safety and effecti...

Introduction: Organizing pneumonia (OP) is a radio-histologic pattern that forms in response to lung damage in patients with focal or diffuse lung injury. OP is frequently observed subsequent to viral-induced lung damage and is associated with a dive...

A 55-year-old man was evaluated at the emergency department because of increasing shortness of breath and cough [...]

Rasmussen’s aneurysm is a rare and fatal cause of hemoptysis secondary to infection with pulmonary tuberculosis. The most commonly involved vessels include the bronchial arteries, but rarely can involve the pulmonary artery. We report the case of a 6...