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The relationship between biomarkers and hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) is understudied, especially in severe cases admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). Compared with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP)...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:166
The collected works of Hippocrates were searched for concepts on the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of acute and urgent respiratory diseases, with the objective to trace their origins in the Hippocratic Coll...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:165
Several lung structural and functional abnormalities may occur associated with aging, including emphysema. In this study, we evaluated the frequency and risk factors associated with emphysema in respiratory as...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:164
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been associated with many types of cancers, but their molecular mechanisms in lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) have not been fully studied. Therefore, the current study in...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:163
Self-Management Support (SMS), refers to the actions taken by individuals to recognise and manage their own health. It is increasingly recognised that individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (CO...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:162
Pulmonary Cryptococcosis is a common fungal infection mainly caused by Cryptococcus neoformans/C.gattii species in immunocompromised patients. Cases of pulmonary cryptococcosis in patients with normal immune func...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:161
Ceftriaxone (CTRX) and ampicillin/sulbactam (ABPC/SBT) are recommended by various guidelines as the first-line antibiotics for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). However, which of these antibiotics is more ef...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:160
Whereas Burkholderia infections are recognized to impair prognosis in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, there is no recommendation to date for early eradication therapy. The aim of our study was to analyse the curre...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:159
Lung cancer is frequently situated peripherally in the upper lobes of the lung. Acquiring adequate tissue from this difficult-to-reach area remains a challenge. Transbronchial cryobiopsy (TBCB) has the ability...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:158
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is related with adverse pregnancy outcomes, including preeclampsia. However, there are small studies about treatment of OSA with automatic continuous positive airway pressure (CP...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:157
Statin-associated necrotizing myopathy (SANM) is a rare autoimmune disorder caused by administration of statins. SANM is characterized by weakness due to necrosis and regeneration of myofibers. Here we report ...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:156
Macitentan is a dual endothelin receptor antagonist indicated for the long-term treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). We evaluated the change over time in REVEAL risk score in incident and preval...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:154
Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous disease of unknown etiology. Clinical cohort studies of different populations are important to understand the high variability in clinical presentation and disease cours...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:155
Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) Wilms Tumor 1 Associated Protein Pseudogene 1 (WTAPP1) has been reported to be a critical player in the angiogenesis and migration of endothelial progenitor cells, while its involv...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:153
PSMG3-AS1 has been characterized as an oncogenic lncRNA in breast cancer, while its role in other cancers is unknown. This study investigated the role of PSMG3-AS1 in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD).
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:152
Usual clinical practice for arterial blood gas analysis (BGA) in conscious patients involves a one-time arterial puncture to be performed after a resting period of 20–30 min. The aim of this study was to evalu...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:151
Variants in the gene encoding bone morphogenetic protein receptor type II (BMPR2) are the most common genetic cause of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), whereas biallelic variants in the eukaryotic translati...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:150
Vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (vEDS) is a rare autosomal dominant hereditary collagen disease caused by a defect or deficiency in the pro-α1 chain of type III procollagen encoded by the COL3A1 gene. Patients...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:149
Forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) characterizes the pathophysiology of COPD and different trajectories of FEV1 decline have been observed in patients with COPD (e.g. gradual or episodic). There is lim...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:148
We assessed the rate of and predictors for all-cause mortality in patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) receiving plasma exchange (PLEX) and evaluated the surviva...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:147
Pulmonary tuberculosis is one of the most common infectious diseases worldwide. Patients with suspected pulmonary tuberculosis with negative smear are recommended to undergo further tests including sputum indu...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:146
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:145
Previous analyses of combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema (CPFE) cohorts have provided conflicting data on the survival of patients with CPFE. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the clini...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:144
Supervised cardio-pulmonary rehabilitation may be safe and beneficial for people with pulmonary hypertension (PH) in groups 1 (pulmonary arterial hypertension) and 4 (chronic thromboembolic disease), particula...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:143
Attenuated decreases in lung function can signal the onset of acute respiratory events known as pulmonary exacerbations (PEs) in children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis (CF). Univariate joint modeling fa...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:142
Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) is also known as immotile-cilia syndrome, an autosomal recessive disorder of ciliary function, leading to mucus retention in the respiratory system in childhood. Our knowledge ...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:141
Endobronchial ultrasound guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) has been become an important procedure for the diagnosis and staging of lung cancer. Our research identified the effects of differen...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:140
Asthma is a complex syndrome with multiple domains including symptoms, lung function, asthma control, and airway inflammation. A study of Fenom PRO™, a novel monitor for exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO), provided a...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:139
Fluoroquinolones (FQs) are potential drugs that inhibit DNA synthesis and are used in the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) and short-term anti-TB regimens. In recent years, a high proportion ...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:138
The association between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung function and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) remains controversial. We performed a meta-analysis to clarify this issue.
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:137
Patients with a primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) who are treated with chest tube drainage are traditionally connected to an analogue chest drainage system, containing a water seal and using a visual meth...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:136
Brain is one of the most common target organ of lung cancer metastasis, while descriptions of intraventricular carcinomatosis could hardly be found among previous cases. To date no cases from lung adenocarcino...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:135
Revefenacin, a once-daily, long-acting muscarinic antagonist delivered via standard jet nebulizer, increased trough forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) in patients with moderate to very severe chronic obstruct...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:134
COPD exacerbations have negative impact on patients’ survival. Several risk factors for grave outcomes of such exacerbations have been descried. Muscle dysfunction and mass loss were shown to impact negatively...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:133
Cardiac involvement is a rare and potentially fatal presentation of sarcoidosis. Obstructive sleep apnea may complicate sarcoidosis.
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:132
Following publication of the original article [1], the authors have flagged that there is an error in Fig. 3.
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:131
Home mechanical ventilation is a reliable treatment for patients suffering from chronic respiratory failure, improving survival and quality of life. Prevalence has been increasing worldwide as a result of evol...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:130
Although typical and atypical CT image findings of COVID-19 are reported in current studies, the CT image features of COVID-19 overlap with those of viral pneumonia and other respiratory diseases. Hence, it is...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:129
While antifibrotic drugs significantly decrease lung function decline in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), there is still an unmet need to halt disease progression. Antioxidative therapy with N-acetylcystei...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:128
Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) is frequently associated with chronic respiratory impairment despite microbiological cure. There are only a few clinical research studies that describe the course, type and severit...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:127
Improvement in health-related quality of life (HRQL) has been suggested as an alternative treatment goal of non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (NTM-PD). This study was performed to elucidate the l...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:126
High-concentration oxygen therapy causes increased arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO2) in patients with COPD, asthma, pneumonia, obesity and acute lung injury. The objective of these studies was t...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:125
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has been increasingly used for severe neonatal respiratory failure refractory to conventional treatments. To systematically evaluate the complications and mortality o...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:124
Previous studies have established a higher prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in patients with COPD, but the relationship between vitamin D levels and COPD exacerbations remains controversial. In addition, the...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:123
Pirfenidone is an antifibrotic agent approved for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The drug is available for Polish patients with IPF since 2017. The PolExPIR study aimed to describe the r...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:122
An asymptomatic SCUBA (Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus) diver was discovered to have an intralobar bronchopulmonary sequestration during routine pre-course screening. This is the first reported c...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:121
Although many studies on people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) have examined the mutual impact of physical status and emotional experience, there is limited knowledge about the way COPD peop...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:120
Batefenterol (BAT) is a bi-functional molecule with both muscarinic antagonist and β2-adrenoceptor agonist pharmacology. This Phase II, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study evaluated the safety and ...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:119
Electronic cigarettes/e-cigarettes (ECs), or vaping, is currently the most popular form of smoking amongst youth in the United States. ECs are battery-powered devices that vaporize a liquid that comes in small...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:118
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Citation Impact
2.813 - 2-year Impact Factor
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1.17 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
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