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The aim of this study was to assess the effect of the lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR), neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio on overall survival and disease-free survival in patien...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:75
Blood eosinophil count may predict treatment response in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) during acute exacerbations (AE). However, the ability and thresholds of blood eosinophil coun...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:74
Scarring central airway stenosis (SCAS) is a potentially life-threatening condition with debilitating symptoms. Interventional bronchoscopy is increasingly used to relieve symptoms in patients with SCAS, but r...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:73
To investigate if acute pulmonary vasodilation by sildenafil improves right ventricular function in patients with acute intermediate-high risk pulmonary embolism (PE).
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:72
Physical inactivity is common in severe asthma and associated with poor health outcomes. New approaches are needed to address physical inactivity in this group.
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:71
Excessive fibroblast proliferation during pulmonary fibrosis leads to structural abnormalities in lung tissue and causes hypoxia and cell injury. However, the mechanisms and effective treatment are still limited.
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:70
Lower respiratory tract (LRT) specimen culture is widely performed for the identification of Aspergillus. We investigated the clinical features and prognosis of patients with Aspergillus isolation from LRT specim...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:69
Rhomboid intercostal block (RIB) and Rhomboid intercostal block with sub-serratus plane block (RISS) are the two types of plane blocks used for postoperative analgesia after video-assisted thoracoscopic surger...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:68
Transbronchial lung cryobiopsy (TBLC) has been introduced as an alternative to surgical lung biopsy (SLB) in the diagnostics of interstitial lung diseases (ILD). Despite controversy on safety, TBLC is increasi...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:67
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is a critical activator of inflammation. Circulating mtDNA released causes lung injury in experimental models. We hypothesized that elevated plasma mtDNA levels are associated with ac...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:66
Inhaler selection is important when managing respiratory conditions; a patient’s inhalation technique should be appropriate for the selected device, and patients should ideally be able to use a device successf...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:65
We aimed to identify high-risk factors for disease progression and fatality for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients.
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:64
The precise classification of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (IIP) is essential for selecting treatment as well as estimating clinical outcomes; however, this is sometimes difficult in clinical practice. Th...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:63
The most important target cell of SARS-CoV-2 is Type II pneumocyte which produces and secretes pulmonary surfactant (PS) that prevents alveolar collapse. PS instillation therapy is dramatically effective for i...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:62
Inflammation caused by chronic lung disease in childhood may lead to delayed heart rate recovery (HRR) however, there is lack of evidence on HRR in this population. The aim was to assess HRR after functional ...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:61
To investigate the role and its potential mechanism of 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase 4 (PFKFB4) in lung adenocarcinoma.
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:60
Asthma and osteoarthritis (OA) are medical conditions that inhibit physical activity and adversely affect quality of life. Despite the high prevalence, there are limited studies focusing on the comorbid condit...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:59
Hyperoxia downregulates the tight junction (TJ) proteins of the alveolar epithelium and leads to barrier dysfunction. Previous study has showed that STE20/SPS1-related proline/alanine-rich kinase (SPAK) interf...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:58
Anti-synthetase syndrome (ASSD) is a chronic autoimmune condition characterized by antibodies directed against an aminoacycl transfer RNA synthetase (ARS) along with a group of clinical features including the ...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:57
The effects of comorbidities on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have been usually studied individually in the past. In this study, we aimed to investigate the comorbidities associated with mortali...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:56
To explore the relationship between peripheral lymphocyte counts (PLCs) and the mortality risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), as well as the potential of PLC for predicting COVID-19 hospitalized patie...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:55
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:54
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) has been reported to be significantly associated with chronic rhinosinusitis, but the strength of the association is still debated.
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:53
To develop and validate a clinical risk prediction score for noninvasive ventilation (NIV) failure defined as intubation after a trial of NIV in non-surgical patients.
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:52
Malnutrition and altered body composition are well-documented in chronic pulmonary diseases; however, investigation of nutritional status in interstitial lung disease (ILD) is limited. This study aimed to desc...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:51
LINC01116 is a recently identified oncogenic lncRNA in glioma. Differential expression analysis using the public gene expression analysis tool GEPIA revealed the upregulation of LINC01116 in lung cancer. We st...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:50
Cough variant asthma (CVA) is one of the special populations of asthma. The aim of the study was to compare small airways, the degree of bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) and airway inflammatory subtypes bet...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:49
Patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) have progressive and disabling symptoms, as well as a burden of treatments and a difficult clinical evaluation that make health-related quality of life a particularly ...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:48
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a common nocosomial infection in intensive care unit (ICU). Local microbiological surveillance of pathogens and resistance patterns for early-onset VAP (EOVAP) and late...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:47
Sickle-cell anaemia is a widespread genetic disease prevalent worldwide among African and African-American populations. The pathogenesis is most often revealed by pulmonary conditions, including acute thoracic...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:46
Cigarette smoke (CS) is a major risk factor for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Follistatin-like protein 1 (FSTL1), a critical factor during embryogenesis particularly in respiratory lung develop...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:45
The risk of developing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), the associated comorbidities and response to bronchodilators might differ in men and women. The objective of this study was to determine the...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:44
Besides the clinical benefit of crizotinib in ALK-rearranged metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), concerns about its hepatotoxicity have arisen. It is not clear whether this is a drug class side effe...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:43
Rapid and accurate identification of right ventricular (RV) dysfunction is essential for decreasing mortality associated with acute pulmonary embolism (PE), particularly for non-high-risk patients without hypo...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:42
Zosteriform skin metastasis (ZSM) is rare, and its etiology is not well understood. ZSM is possibly derived from the retrograde movement of cancer cells through the lymphatic vessels during disease development...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:41
Lung ultrasound score is a potential method for determining pulmonary edema in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) has become the preferred modality to manag...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:40
To evaluate the feasibility and safety of microcoil in simultaneous localization for multiple pulmonary nodules before video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS).
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:39
Clinical management of COVID-19 requires close monitoring of lung function. While computed tomography (CT) offers ideal way to identify the phenotypes, it cannot monitor the patient response to therapeutic int...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:38
COVID-19 is a systemic viral infection which mainly targets the human respiratory system with many secondary clinical manifestations especially affecting the hematopoietic system and haemostasis. Few studies h...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:37
Persistent allergic airway diseases cause a great burden worldwide. Their pathogenesis is not clear enough. There is evidence that one of the recently described cytokine interleukin (IL) 22 may be involved in ...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:36
Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) is a disease that is associated with severe uncontrolled eosinophilic asthma. Eosinophils play an important pathogenic role in the development of both disea...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:35
It is necessary to analyze the CT pulmonary vascular parameters and disease severity in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients to provide evidence support for the management of COPD.
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:34
Bilirubin is a potent antioxidant and higher serum bilirubin levels have been associated with improved COPD outcomes. We performed a systematic review to evaluate the association between serum bilirubin levels...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:33
Early suspicion followed by assessing lung function with spirometry could decrease the underdiagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in primary care. We aimed to develop a nomogram to predict ...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:32
The most common and severe infection of Aspergillus fumigatus is invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA), which is usually seen in immunocompromised patients. Neutropenia is the primary risk factor implicated in I...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:31
Regular exercise is important in the management of COPD. Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) facilitates a more physically active lifestyle through exercise participation, ideally without compromising non-exercise p...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:30
Whipple’s disease is a chronic infectious disease caused by the Gram-positive bacterium Tropheryma whipplei (TW), which not only affects the gastrointestinal tract and causes malabsorption of nutrients, but sever...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:29
Since there was no previous report, we analyzed the relationship between French Risk Stratification parameters in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and mean pulmonary arterial pressures (mPAP) using Japan ...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:28
Extranodal natural killer/T cell lymphoma (ENKL) is a rare subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and lung involvement is extremely rare. The patients with pulmonary ENKL always presented unspecific symptoms of the ...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:27
In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients, combination treatment with long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA) and long-acting β2 agonist (LABA) increases forced expiratory volume in one second ...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:26
Citation Impact
2.813 - 2-year Impact Factor
2.82 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.17 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.095 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
797,795 Downloads
1,032 Altmetric Mentions