Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by inflammatory injury of
airways, lung parenchyma, and pulmonary vasculature secondary to noxious environmental …

Background: The ventilation heterogeneity (VH) is reliably assessed by the multiple-breath
nitrogen washout (MBNW), which provides indices of conductive (S cond) and acinar (S …

A 39-year-old, never-smoker White woman with chronic juvenile idiopathic arthritis was
referred to the urgent pulmonary clinic due to dyspnea, which progressed over 5 months …

Background Exertional breathlessness is a cardinal symptom of cardiorespiratory disease.
Research Question How does breathlessness abnormality, graded using normative …

Tuberculosis-related lung damage is very different. Lung ventilation disorders have been
studied in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) during the active process and after …

Background: Exertional breathlessness is the cardinal symptom in cardiorespiratory
disease. We aimed to validate recently developed normative reference equations to …

This study was conducted to investigate risk factors and predictors of infectious and
noninfectious pulmonary complications (PCs) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell …

Since the initial outbreak of COVID-19, over 775 million infections have been documented
and over 7 million deaths confirmed. Initially thought to exclusively target the respiratory …

At a time when technical possibilities for medical investigations are plentiful and ever
expanding, there is growing awareness that more is not always better and that “too much …

Introduction. Alveolar hemorrhage syndrome is a severe condition, with a high-risk of death.
A timely diagnosis and therapy may be life-saving. The „gold-standard “method for …