Advances in Respiratory Medicine, Volume 87, Issue 3

Introduction: With a 5–10% global prevalence, asthma, as a chronic condition which can strongly affect the quality of life of patients and care givers, needs comprehensive approach, including medications and psychological techniques, to get the optim...

Introduction: Airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) is a cardinal feature of asthma. Asthma is a heterogenous disorder which consists of different phenotypes and endotypes. Mechanisms leading to AHR may differ in different asthma subtypes. Allergy to pere...

Introduction: Many theories have been proposed to explain pathogenesis of COPD; however, remains unclear why the majority of smokers (~80%) do not develop COPD, or only develop a mild disease. To explore if COPD has an autoimmune component, the role...

Introduction: In Greece, the last decade, the harsh austerity measures, that were enacted, had a huge impact on patients’ suffering from chronic diseases. The aim of the current study was to assess the financial ability of the patients suffering from...

Introduction: Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) has shown its potential as a reliable noninvasive technique for tissue characterization. DWI reflects the tissue specific diffusion capacity which can be used for tissue characterization. Hypercellular t...

Inhalation injury is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with burns. Presence of airways injury adds to the need of fluid supplementation, increases risk of pulmonary complications. Due to many mechanisms involved in pathophysiology...

Benzodiazepines are widely prescribed hypnotic agents which have multiple proven neurological and respiratory side effects. However, literature is sparse with regards to the incidence and occurrence of new onset central sleep apnoea in individuals be...

Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) has proved to be the best approach to mediastinal investigation [...]

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A 39-year-old never smoker male with a 3-month history of progressive dyspnea was found to have a heterogeneously enhancing right lung mass with multiple [...]

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Introduction: Observations indicate that struggling with a burden of an incurable disease such as advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may result in the weakening of an individual sense of dignity, and be a source of spiritual suffer...