Advances in Respiratory Medicine, Volume 90, Issue 1

Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused unprecedented mortality and has stretched the health infrastructure thin worldwide, especially in low- and middle-income countries. There is a need to evaluate easily available bio...

Introduction: Portable spirometers are often perceived as inaccurate. We aimed to evaluate the performance of AioCare®, a new portable spirometer, by comparing it with a reference desktop spirometer. Materials and Methods: Sixty-two patients diagnose...

Introduction: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection resulted in significant worldwide morbidity and mortality. The aim of our study was to evaluate the results of laboratory tests performed on patients on adm...

Introduction: Bronchospasm attacks occur following syndromic rainfall and are increasing due to air pollution and need effective treatments. In this study, the effect of salbutamol nebulizer in comparison with salbutamol plus budesonide nebulizer in...

Introduction: The objectives of study are to study and to evaluate the benefits and effectiveness of home-based pulmonary rehabilitation in compliance with Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 2020 nonpharmacological initiati...

Introduction: Asthma is one of the most common chronic disorders of the respiratory tract. Thus, this study intended to evaluate the clinical effects and the peak flow metric effects of nebulized albuterol with heliox versus albuterol nebulization in...

Since the RECOVERY trial, steroids have endorsed by all Guideliness for treating moderate-severe COVID-19. The prescribed dose is 6mg dexamethasone or its equivalents for 10 days. However, in clinical practice, there are numerous occasions where the...

Introduction: At present, chest computed tomography (CT) is accepted as a tool for assessment COVID-19 patients. However, there are few data about the relationship between initial imaging results at presentation and the presence of systemic inflammat...

Introduction: The role of comorbidities in determining health-related quality of life (HRQL) in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) pa-tients has not been thoroughly investigated. Commonly used comorbidity tools, such as Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), h...

Introduction: Oxidative stress reduces responsiveness of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to the anti-inflammatory effects of glucocorticoids (GCs). Azithromycin was shown to m...