Lung cancer screening promises to find cancer early and treat it before it progresses. But a year on, issues have emerged.
Learn why comprehensive biomarker testing is essential before starting any lung cancer treatment. Hear from patients and ...
E-cigarette users with obesity show higher ventilatory demands and breathlessness during exercise, indicating potential ...
Lung cancer screening criteria based on the duration of smoking appeared to be a better option for determining individuals at ...
For decades, the medical standard of care included race-based medical tests — or giving different scores to Black and white ...
This toolkit is designed to help healthcare professionals better understand respiratory oscillometry, also referred to as forced oscillation technique (FOT). Impulse oscillometry (IOS) is a ...
A structured pediatric pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) program improved 6-minute walking test distance by approximately 230 feet and significantly enhanced strength and agility metrics. Spirometric ...
Smartphone adapter connects to mouth to measure airway openness via sound waves Device aims to make lung function testing more accessible for patients with chronic conditions Clinical trial underway ...
Rationale Despite significant advances in patient care and outcomes, criteria for cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) in risk stratification guidelines for lung resection have not been updated in ...
The metabolic mechanisms underlying right ventricular (RV) dysfunction are poorly understood, particularly outside of group 1 pulmonary hypertension (PH). We aimed to identify metabolites and pathways ...
A third of patients with connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease (CTD-ILD) developed progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF), according to a new study. A 2.2% increase in fibrotic ...
For decades, lung transplant survival has been constrained by the difficulty of detecting rejection before irreversible damage occurs. About 50% of patients who received transplants would die within ...