The COVID-19 pandemic has caused acute lung injury in millions of individuals worldwide.
Some patients develop COVID-related acute respiratory distress syndrome (CARDS) and …

Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a serious complication of rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
contributing to significantly increased morbidity and mortality. Other respiratory …

Solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients are especially at risk of developing infections by
multidrug resistant (MDR) Gram-negative bacilli (GNB), as they are frequently exposed to …

Objectives Extracorporeal life support (ECLS) is increasingly used to bridge deteriorating
patients awaiting lung transplantation (LTx), however, few systematic descriptions of this …

In the summer of 2016, delegates from the German Respiratory Society, the German Society
of Cardiology and the German Society of Pediatric Cardiology met in Cologne, Germany, to …

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a chronic and progressive fibrosing interstitial
pneumonia, is a fatal lung disease with a median survival time of 3–5 years. Problems in …

The most common forms of pulmonary hypertension are pulmonary arterial hypertension,
chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, and pulmonary hypertension due to left …

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fibrosing interstitial lung disease that is, by definition,
progressive. Progression of IPF is reflected by a decline in lung function, worsening of …

Background Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a well-known independent prognostic factor in
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and a sufficient criterion for lung transplant …

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder characterized by dysfunction
of the CFTR gene. It is a multisystem disease that most often affects White individuals. In …