Introduction: Transbronchial lung cryobiopsy (TBLC) is increasingly being used as an
alternative to video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) biopsy to establish the …

Rationale: In 2018, a systematic review evaluating transbronchial lung cryobiopsy (TBLC) in
patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD) was performed to inform American Thoracic …

Background: This American Thoracic Society, European Respiratory Society, Japanese
Respiratory Society, and Asociación Latinoamericana de Tórax guideline updates prior …

Background: This guideline addresses the diagnosis of hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP). It
represents a collaborative effort among the American Thoracic Society, Japanese …

Some patients experience pulmonary sequelae after SARS-CoV-2 infection, ranging from
self-limited abnormalities to major lung diseases. Morphological analysis of lung tissue may …

Background In patients with interstitial lung diseases (ILD), histopathological input is often
required to obtain a diagnosis. Surgical lung biopsy (SLB) is considered the reference …

Background: The pathogenetic steps leading to Covid-19 interstitial pneumonia remain to be
clarified. Most postmortem studies to date reveal diffuse alveolar damage as the most …

Background Transbronchial cryobiopsy (TBC) is increasingly recognized as a potential
alternative to surgical lung biopsy (SLB) for the diagnosis of interstitial lung disease (ILD) …

The incidental discovery of pre-clinical interstitial lung disease (ILD) has led to the
designation of interstitial lung abnormalities (ILA), a radiological entity defined as the …

Organising pneumonia (OP) is currently recognised as a nonspecific lung injury response
that is associated with a variety of imaging patterns obtained with high-resolution computed …