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  1. A significant reduction in regional cerebral oxygen saturation (rSO2) is commonly observed during one-lung ventilation (OLV), while positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) can improve oxygenation. We compared the...

    Authors: Liying Zhao, Shuang Lv, Qian Xiao, Yuan Zhang, Wenbo Yi, Yu Bai, Kangping Lu, Kevin C. Bermea, Jessica Semel, Xiaomei Yang and Jianbo Wu
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:120
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  2. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death worldwide among people over 40 years of age, and erythrocytosis is one of the major complications associated with increased mort...

    Authors: Amon Banturaki, Dalton Kambale Munyambalu, Dickson Kajoba, Verah Bella Onchoke, Alina Peris, Prosper Ryamugwiza, Jacinto Amandua and Kingsley Akaba
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:119
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  3. This study assessed hospitalisation frequency and related clinical outcomes among adult Aboriginal Australians with bronchiectasis over a ten-year study period.

    Authors: Timothy Howarth, Claire Gibbs, Subash S. Heraganahally and Asanga Abeyaratne
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:118
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  4. Little attention has been paid to the pathophysiological changes in the natural history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The destructions of the small airways were visualized on thoracic micro-...

    Authors: Li Li, Ying Gong, Dongni Hou, Yijun Song, Jing Bi, Miao Li, Junjie Han, Yuanlin Song and Jun She
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:116
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  5. IgG4-related disease is a systemic fibroinflammatory disease that is mainly seen in older men, and involves multiple organs, such as the pancreas and lungs. However, 75% of patients with IgG4-related lung dise...

    Authors: Atsushi Torii, Kahori Oshima, Akari Iwakoshi and Masahide Oki
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:115
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  6. Early diagnosing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is relatively difficult. Therefore, the concepts of preserved ratio impaired spirometry (PRISm) and small airway disease (SAD) were proposed to ach...

    Authors: Le Sang, Xia Gong, Yunlei Huang and Jian Sun
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:114
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  7. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common disease associated with premature death. Tobacco exposure is the main risk factor, but lower socioeconomic status, early life insults, and occupational ...

    Authors: Nina Brünés, Mette Bendtz Lindstroem, Charlotte Suppli Ulrik, Ove Andersen, Marianne Lisby, Nina Skavlan Godtfredsen, Tina Leth Hansen, Charlotta Pisinger, Vibeke Graven, Kristoffer Marsaa and Laura Hohwü Thomsen
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:113
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  8. The prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) was found to be higher in individuals following COVID-19 infection. However, the intricate mechanisms that underscore this concomitance remain partially elucidat...

    Authors: Hong Luo, Jisong Yan, Rui Gong, Dingyu Zhang, Xia Zhou and Xianguang Wang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:112
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  9. Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) combined with respiratory failure (RF) is a chronic respiratory disease that seriously endangers human health. This study aimed to specifica...

    Authors: Ruoqing Zhou and Dianzhu Pan
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:111
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  10. Both sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) are common severe diseases in the intensive care unit (ICU). There is no large-scale multicenter study to clarify the attributable mortality of ARDS a...

    Authors: Dong-Hui Wang, Hui-Miao Jia, Xi Zheng, Xiu-Ming Xi, Yue Zheng and Wen-Xiong Li
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:110
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  11. High-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) refers to the onset of breathlessness, cough, and fever at rest after arriving at high altitudes. It is a life-threatening illness caused by rapid ascent to high altitudes....

    Authors: Dava Tenzing, Pianduo Suolang, Deji Gesang, Duoji Suolang, Gaozhan Duan, Wangmu Ciren, Yihui Wang and Tongtian Ni
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:109
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  12. Safely implementing transbronchial lung cryobiopsy (TBLC) in patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD) requires accurate navigation. Traditional fluoroscopy falls short in reducing the risk of post-procedu...

    Authors: Shiyao Wang, Jinmi Yang, Sa Luo, Jing Geng, Yanhong Ren, Ling Zhao, Min Liu, Dan Wang, Ying Li, Zheng Tian, Wei Liu, Guowu Zhou and Huaping Dai
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:108
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  13. Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections have increased in China recently, causing some evidence of familial clustering. The purpose of this study was to compare the clinical features of parents and children in cases of...

    Authors: Xu Liu, Qingfeng Zhang, Hao Chen, Yueying Hao, Jingyi Zhang, Shiqian Zha, Beini Zhou, Yaohua Yi, Rui Xiao and Ke Hu
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:107
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  14. The main focus on the characteristics of malignant lung tumours has been the size, position within the lobe, and infiltration into neighbouring structures. The aim of this study was to investigate the distribu...

    Authors: Yngvar Nilssen, Odd Terje Brustugun, Lars Fjellbirkeland, Åslaug Helland, Bjørn Møller, Sissel Gyrid Freim Wahl and Steinar Solberg
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:106
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  15. While the prevalence of severe cases and mortality rate of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) appear to be reducing, the clinical characteristics and severity of hospitalized patients with asthma and COVID-19...

    Authors: Akinari Tsukada, Junko Terada-Hirashima, Jin Takasaki, Hiroshi Nokihara, Shinyu Izumi, Masayuki Hojo and Haruhito Sugiyama
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:105
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  16. Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is one of the leading causes of mortality in patients with critical care illness. Since obesity is highly prevalent, we wanted to study its impact on the outcomes of patie...

    Authors: Mohamad El Labban, Michella Abi Zeid Daou, Hiba Smaily, Abbas Hammoud, Ghandi Hassan, Syed Khan and Imad Bou Akl
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:104
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  17. Randomized controlled trials described beneficial effects of inhaled triple therapy (LABA/LAMA/ICS) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and high risk of exacerbations. We studied whet...

    Authors: Jennifer A. Zader, Rudolf A. Jörres, Imke Mayer, Peter Alter, Robert Bals, Henrik Watz, Pontus Mertsch, Klaus F. Rabe, Felix Herth, Franziska C. Trudzinski, Tobias Welte, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Jürgen Behr, Julia Walter, Claus F. Vogelmeier and Kathrin Kahnert
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:103
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  18. To investigate pulmonary thromboembolism (PE) in acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AE-COPD) patients in plateau regions, we performed a prospective cohort study to evaluate the preva...

    Authors: Chenlu Yang, Yajun Tuo, Xuefeng Shi, Jie Duo, Xin Liu, Fang Zhang and Xiaokai Feng
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:102
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  19. Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a serious medical condition. However, the condition is often misdiagnosed or a rather long delay occurs from symptom onset to diagnosis, associated with decreased 5-year surv...

    Authors: Shun Imai, Seiichiro Sakao, Jun Nagata, Akira Naito, Ayumi Sekine, Toshihiko Sugiura, Ayako Shigeta, Akira Nishiyama, Hajime Yokota, Norihiro Shimizu, Takeshi Sugawara, Toshiaki Nomi, Seiwa Honda, Keisuke Ogaki, Nobuhiro Tanabe, Takayuki Baba…
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:101
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  20. Tuberculosis (TB) is a significant global health concern, given its high rates of morbidity and mortality. The diagnosis using urine lipoarabinomannan (LAM) primarily benefits HIV co-infected TB patients with ...

    Authors: Yan Li, Zhiwei Ru, Hongxia Wei, Ming Wu, Guihua Xie, Jianrong Lou, Xiang Yang and Xilin Zhang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:100
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  21. The most common and potentially fatal side effect of thoracic radiation therapy is radiation pneumonitis (RP). Due to the lack of effective treatments, predicting radiation pneumonitis is crucial. This study a...

    Authors: Yawen Zha, Jingjing Zhang, Xinyu Yan, Chen Yang, Lei Wen and Minying Li
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:99
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  22. The concept of eosinophilic bronchiectasis has received clinical attention recently, but the association between blood eosinophil count (BEC) and hospital characteristics has rarely been reported yet. We aim t...

    Authors: Chengcheng Lei, Zhimin Zeng, Fengjia Chen, Yubiao Guo and Yangli Liu
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:98
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  23. While cutaneous melanomas are well-documented, primary melanoma of the lung (PMML), particularly with endobronchial origin, remains rare and poorly characterized. This case report addresses gaps in understandi...

    Authors: Emanuela Barisione, Andrea Boutros, Marco Mora, Francesco Spagnolo, Enrica Teresa Tanda, Carlo Genova and Elena Tagliabue
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:97
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  24. Advanced lung adenocarcinoma patients often develop resistance to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs), leaving uncertainties regarding subsequent treatment strategies. Although personalized therapy tar...

    Authors: Kan Jiang, Lin Wu, Xinlong Zheng, Yiquan Xu, Qian Miao, Xiaobin Zheng, Longfeng Zhang, Cheng Huang and Gen Lin
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:96
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  26. Asthma is a common respiratory disease. In asthma, the small airways have more intensive inflammation and prominent airway remodelling, compared to the central airways. We aimed to investigate the predictive v...

    Authors: Lulu Zhang, Zhou Fu, Hua Deng, Qin Xie and Wenjie Wu
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:94
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  28. To evaluate the efficacy of high-flow nasal cannula oxygenation (HFNC) versus non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in pediatric patients post-congenital heart surgery (CHS) through a meta-analysis.

    Authors: Si-Jia Zhou, Xiu-Hua Chen, Ying-Ying Liu, Qiang Chen, Yi-Rong Zheng and Qi-Liang Zhang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:92
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  29. Alpha1-antitrypsin (AAT) is a serine protease inhibitor that serves as a counterbalance to the activity of elastases, e.g., neutrophil elastase in lung tissue. AAT deficiency (AATD) is a rare disorder usually ...

    Authors: Dilek KaradoÄŸan, Ãœnal Åžahin, Bettina Dreger, Laura Grandoso and Lourdes Osaba
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:91
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  30. The data on bosentan were lacking for the treatment of exercise-induced elevation of pulmonary artery pressure (eePAP) or less severe PH in COPD. This study was conducted to investigate long-term efficacy and ...

    Authors: Takeru Kashiwada, Yosuke Tanaka, Toru Tanaka, Tetsuya Okano, Yoshinobu Saito, Masahiro Seike, Mitsunori Hino, Hiroshi Kimura and Akihiko Gemma
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:90
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  31. Several studies have indicated that intrapleural infusion of bevacizumab is an effective treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with malignant pleural effusion (MPE). However, the impact of bevacizum...

    Authors: Hao Zeng, Yuanyuan Zhang, Sihan Tan, Qin Huang, Xin Pu, Panwen Tian and Yalun Li
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:89
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  32. Incentive spirometry (IS) as a routine respiratory therapy during the perioperative period has been widely used in clinical practice. However, the impact of IS on patients with perioperative lung cancer remain...

    Authors: Yan Liang, Shaolin Chen, Jiamei Song, Ting Deng, Jinfen Yang, Yangyang Long, Lorna Kwai Ping Suen and Xu Luo
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:88
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  33. Interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) are caused by inflammation and/or fibrosis of alveolar walls resulting in impaired gas exchange. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is the third most common type of ILDs. Corti...

    Authors: Marwa G. Elhennawy, Yosri Akl, Maggie Abbassi and Nirmeen A. Sabry
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:87
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  34. The new endobronchial therapy called biological lung volume reduction (BioLVR) involves using a rapid polymerizing sealant to block off the most emphysematous portions of the lungs. The primary mechanism of ac...

    Authors: Dina Abd El Wahab El Gohary, Mohamed Adel Eltomey, Ahmed Shawky Mohamed, Amgad Abd El Raouf Farahat and Ayman Hassan Abd El Zaher
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:86
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  35. Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) has high morbidity and mortality. Despite substantial advances in treatment, the prognosis of patients with LUAD remains unfavorable. The ceRNA axis has been reported to play an impo...

    Authors: Jiang Wu, Guang Fu, Chao Luo, Liang Chen and Quanxing Liu
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:85
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  36. Exposure assessment is integral to the diagnosis of hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP). Although the clinical relevance of exposed antigens is essential for the assessment, many of the previous guidelines or re...

    Authors: Yuki Iijima, Masaru Ejima, Takashi Yamana, Shiro Sonoda, Sho Shibata, Tsuyoshi Shirai, Tsukasa Okamoto, Haruhiko Furusawa, Tomoya Tateishi, Takuya Adachi, Mio Mori, Susumu Kirimura, Tatsuhiko Anzai, Kunihiko Takahashi and Yasunari Miyazaki
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:84
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  37. Respiratory complications in breast cancer (BC) patients after chemotherapy (CT) and radiotherapy (RT) have been well acquainted and these complications should be investigated to prevent secondary problems and...

    Authors: Alper Tuğral, Zeynep Arıbaş, Murat Akyol and Yeşim Bakar
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:83
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  38. There is a need to develop and validate a widely applicable nomogram for predicting readmission of respiratory failure patients within 365 days.

    Authors: Zhongxiang Liu, Zhixiao Sun, Hang Hu, Yuan Yin and Bingqing Zuo
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:82
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  40. Elevation of systemic inflammatory markers were found to correlate with increased disease extent, reduced lung function and higher risk of future severe exacerbations in patients with bronchiectasis. Although ...

    Authors: Wang Chun Kwok, Kay Cheong Teo, Kui Kai Lau and James Chung-man HO
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:80
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  41. Trauma has been identified as one of the risk factors for acute respiratory distress syndrome. Respiratory support can be further complicated by comorbidities of trauma such as primary or secondary lung injury...

    Authors: Jing Su, Xin Tie, Yao Chen, Tongjuan Zou and Wanhong Yin
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:79
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  42. Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a complication of chronic kidney disease (CKD) that contributes to mortality. Sclerostin, a SOST gene product that reduces osteoblastic bone formation by inhibiting Wnt/β-catenin...

    Authors: Jonghyun Lee, Dong-Hyuk Cho, Hyeon-Jin Min, Young-Bin Son, Tae Bum Kim, Se Won Oh, Myung-Gyu Kim, Won Yong Cho, Sang-Kyung Jo and Jihyun Yang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:78
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  43. This study aimed to investigate the risk factors for peripheral arteriosclerosis (PAS) and peripheral artery disease (PAD) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients and potential ultrasound indi...

    Authors: Li Lin, Yuting Yan, Bin Jiang, Gang Hou, Yan Yin, Lei Wang, Jian Kang and Qiuyue Wang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:77
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  44. Severe asthma places a large burden on patients and society. The characteristics of patients with severe asthma in the Chinese population remain unclear.

    Authors: Guiping Zhu, Yuqing Mo, Ling Ye, Hui Cai, Yingying Zeng, Mengchan Zhu, Wenjun Peng, Xin Gao, Xixi Song, Chengyu Yang, Jian Wang, Zhihong Chen and Meiling Jin
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:76
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  46. Idiopathic chronic eosinophilic pneumonia (ICEP) is a rare disease characterized by pulmonary radiological alterations, peripheral eosinophilia, and demonstrated pulmonary eosinophilia. Oral steroids (OSs) are...

    Authors: Andrea Dionelly Murillo, Ana Isabel Castrillon, Carlos Daniel Serrano and Liliana Fernandez-Trujillo
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:74
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  48. While several traditional observational studies have suggested associations between gut microbiota and asthma, these studies are limited by factors such as participant selection bias, confounders, and reverse ...

    Authors: Jingli Li, Chunyi Zhang, Jixian Tang, Meng He, Chunxiao He, Guimei Pu, Lingjing Liu and Jian Sun
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:72
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  49. One of the most prevalent respiratory disorders in modern society is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Frequent comorbidities in patients with COPD are abnormal nutritional status and body composit...

    Authors: M. Yogesh, Jenish Patel, Naresh Makwana and Mansi Mody
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2024 24:71
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