Advances in Respiratory Medicine, Volume 91, Issue 1

End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) exposes patients to progressive physical deconditioning involving the respiratory muscles. The aim of this pilot randomized controlled trial was to determine the feasibility and effectiveness of low-intensity respirato...

Background: Patients with respiratory disorders often have additional diseases and are usually treated with more than one medication to manage their respiratory conditions as well as additional comorbidities. Thus, they are frequently exposed to poly...

We aimed to evaluate asthmatic patients with fixed airways obstruction (FAO) and to verify the impact of follow-up in an asthma-dedicated outpatient clinic on symptoms control and spirometry compared to asthmatics without FAO. We enrolled 20 asthmati...

Although it is clinically important for acute respiratory tract (co)infections to have a rapid and accurate diagnosis, it is critical that respiratory medicine understands the advantages of current laboratory methods. In this study, we tested nasopha...

The respiratory system is a well-organized multicellular organ, and disruption of cellular homeostasis or abnormal tissue repair caused by genetic deficiency and exposure to risk factors lead to life-threatening pulmonary disease including idiopathic...

Background: Finding effective outpatient treatments to prevent COVID-19 progression and hospitalization is necessary and is helpful in managing limited hospital resources. Repurposing previously existing treatments is highly desirable. In this study,...

Background: Bronchoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) are standard procedures for the diagnosis and staging of patients suspected of lung cancer. If the patient simultaneously presents with suspicious liver lesions, it is tradition to refer th...

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Introduction: The role of EBUS-TBNA in the diagnosis and staging of lung cancer is well established. EBUS-TBNA can be performed using different aspiration techniques. The most common aspiration technique is known as “suction”. One alterna...