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  1. Intermittent Prone Positioning (IPP) for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) decreases mortality. We present a program for IPP using expedient materials for settings of significant limitations in both o...

    Authors: Alfredo J. Astua, Eli K. Michaels and Andrew J. Michaels
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:25
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  2. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Ane Uranga, Amaia Artaraz, Amaia Bilbao, Jose María Quintana, Ignacio Arriaga, Maider Intxausti, Jose Luis Lobo, Julia Amaranta García, Jesus Camino and Pedro Pablo España
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:21
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:261

  3. Spontaneous pneumothorax is a common problem globally. Bullas and blebs have been implicated in this problem, but the etiology of their formation is unknown. We aim to show the relation between a novel clinica...

    Authors: Akira Iyoda, Yoko Azuma, Takashi Sakai, Satoshi Koezuka, Hajime Otsuka and Atsushi Sano
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:20
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. While tuberculosis is considered a risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a restrictive pattern of pulmonary impairment may actually be more common among tuberculosis survivors. We aimed to det...

    Authors: Sara C. Auld, Hardy Kornfeld, Pholo Maenetje, Mandla Mlotshwa, William Chase, Mboyo di-Tamba Vangu, Drew A. Torigian, Robert S. Wallis, Gavin Churchyard and Gregory P. Bisson
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:19
    Content type: Original Research Published on:

  5. A once-daily (o.d.) fixed-dose combination of indacaterol acetate (IND), glycopyrronium bromide (GLY), and mometasone furoate (MF) delivered via the Breezhaler® device (IND/GLY/MF) is being developed for treatmen...

    Authors: Satoru Inoue, Soniya Vaidya, Hanns-Christian Tillmann, Yohei Sakita, Surendra Machineni, Olivier Heudi and Kenichi Furihata
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:18
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the therapeutic effect of high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) oxygen therapy on patients with aspiration pneumonia accompanied by respiratory failure in the post-stroke ...

    Authors: Dong Xing, Yu-Hong Chen, Lan -Tao Wang, Bin Yu, Zhi -Bin Ran and Li Chen
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:17
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Pulmonary infiltrates of variable etiology are one of the main reasons for hypoxemic respiratory failure leading to invasive mechanical ventilation. If pulmonary infiltrates remain unexplained or progress desp...

    Authors: Alessandro Ghiani and Claus Neurohr
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:15
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Endoscopic removal is the most common method for removal of tracheal stents. Few studies have reported the technique of fluoroscopy-guided stent removal for tracheal fistula and tracheal stenosis. We aimed to ...

    Authors: Yonghua Bi, Jindong Li, Liangliang Bai, Xinwei Han and Jianzhuang Ren
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:14
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. There is only limited clinical data on the benefit of intense immunosuppression in patients with severe interstitial pneumonia associated with autoimmune features or new-onset connective tissue disease.

    Authors: Philipp Eller, Holger Flick, Gernot Schilcher, Florentine Moazedi-Fürst, Kathrin Eller, Emina Talakic, Josef Hermann, Yannick Allanore and Horst Olschewski
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:13
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  12. Anti-synthetase syndrome (ASS) is an uncommon immune-mediated entity characterized by myositis, interstitial lung disease (ILD), non-erosive arthritis, and less common features such as fever, Raynaud’s phenome...

    Authors: Nasam Alfraji, Usman Mazahir, Moiuz Chaudhri and Jeffrey Miskoff
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:11
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  13. Bronchopleural fistula is a rare but life-threatening event with limited therapeutic options. We aimed to investigate the efficacy and safety of the modified silicone stent in patients with post-surgical bronc...

    Authors: Junli Zeng, Xuemei Wu, Zhide Chen, Meihua Zhang and Mingyao Ke
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:10
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Chemo-radiotherapy and systemic therapies have proven satisfactory outcomes as standard treatments for various thoracic malignancies; however, adverse pulmonary effects, like pneumonitis, can be life-threateni...

    Authors: Marisol Arroyo-Hernández, Federico Maldonado, Francisco Lozano-Ruiz, Wendy Muñoz-Montaño, Mónica Nuñez-Baez and Oscar Arrieta
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:9
    Content type: Review Published on:

  15. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common lung disease during middle age which one of its complications is depression. Depression is considered one of the major causes of severe disability world...

    Authors: Fahimeh Dinparast, Akbar Sharifi, Sara Moradi, Maedeh Alipour and Beitullah Alipour
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:8
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. For patients with acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD), type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) as comorbidity have poor outcomes. However, data on the impact of previously diagnosed and new- diagnosed T2DM in such a p...

    Authors: Li Lin, Jianxin Shi, Jian Kang and Qiuyue Wang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:7
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. Immune checkpoint inhibitors have potential applications in treating various cancers but are associated with immune-related adverse events, such as inflammation, in a wide range of organs; however, allergic in...

    Authors: Masanori Harada, Hyogo Naoi, Kazuyo Yasuda, Yutaro Ito, Namio Kagoo, Tsutomu Kubota, Koshiro Ichijo, Eisuke Mochizuki, Masahiro Uehara, Shun Matsuura, Masaru Tsukui and Naoki Koshimizu
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:6
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  18. Some patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) develop pneumothorax. However, the characteristics of pneumothorax in patients with IPF have not been elucidated. The purpose of this study was to clarify...

    Authors: Ryo Yamazaki, Osamu Nishiyama, Kyuya Gose, Sho Saeki, Hiroyuki Sano, Takashi Iwanaga and Yuji Tohda
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:5
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. Screening for lung cancer has used chest radiography (CR), low dose computed tomography (LDCT) and sputum cytology (SC). Estimates of the lead time (LT), i.e., the time interval from detection of lung cancer b...

    Authors: Jochanan Benbassat
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:4
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Recent basic studies demonstrate that the lung is a primary organ of platelet biogenesis. However, whether the pathophysiological state of the lung affect the platelets is little known. We aim to investigate t...

    Authors: Limeng Wu, Ninghong Guo, Zhenyan Xu, Wei Wang, Qinmei Xiong, Jinzhu Hu, Rong Wan and Kui Hong
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:3
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Congenital bronchial atresia is a rare pulmonary abnormality characterized by the disrupted communication between the central and the peripheral bronchus and is typically asymptomatic. Although it can be sympt...

    Authors: Gaku Kuwabara, Risa Sone, Waki Imoto, Kazushi Yamairi, Wataru Shibata, Kazuhiro Oshima, Koichi Yamada, Kazuhiro Yamada, Tetsuya Watanabe, Kazuhisa Asai, Hiroaki Komatsu, Nobuhiro Izumi, Noritoshi Nishiyama, Tomoya Kawaguchi and Hiroshi Kakeya
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:2
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  22. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic progressive disease that causes scarring of the lungs. The disease is associated with the usual interstitial pneumonia pattern, which was not yet fully recapitu...

    Authors: Gali Epstein Shochet, Lilach Israeli-Shani, Isabelle Kains, Ori Wand and David Shitrit
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:1
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  23. During the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), lockdown periods have changed the way that people and communities live, work and interact.

    Authors: Daniela Savi, Giada Valente, Alessandra Iacovelli, Federica Olmati, Mario Bezzi and Paolo Palange
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:325
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  24. It had been shown that High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) is an effective initial support strategy for patients with acute respiratory failure. However, the efficacy of HFNC for patients with COVID-19 has not been...

    Authors: Ming Hu, Qiang Zhou, Ruiqiang Zheng, Xuyan Li, Jianmin Ling, Yumei Chen, Jing Jia and Cuihong Xie
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:324
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Interstitial lung diseases (ILDs), a diverse group of diffuse lung diseases, mainly affect the lung parenchyma. The low-throughput ‘omics’ technologies (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics) and relative drug...

    Authors: Yupeng Li, Gangao Wu, Yu Shang, Yue Qi, Xue Wang, Shangwei Ning and Hong Chen
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:323
    Content type: Database Published on:

  26. This article has been retracted. Please see the Retraction Notice for more detail: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-020-01365-7.

    Authors: Chuncheng Zhang, Jing Yue, Mingyue Li, Wei Jiang, Yu Pan, Zhimin Song, Cailian Shi, Weixuan Fan and Zhenxiang Pan
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:322
    Content type: Retraction Note Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2019 19:207

  27. Primary cardiac neoplasms are extremely rare, with an autopsy incidence of 0.0001–0.003%. Primary cardiac sarcoma is usually derived from the right atrium and it manifests as chest pain, arrhythmia, hemoptysis...

    Authors: Masaoki Saito, Takeshi Saraya, Miku Oda, Toshinori Minamishima, Ken Kongoji, Aya Isomura, Masachika Fujiwara, Kyoko Soejima and Haruyuki Ishii
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:321
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  28. The purpose of our study was to assess the frequency of occult foreign body aspiration (FBA) and to evaluate the diagnostic difficulties and therapeutic methods for these patients.

    Authors: Bo Liu, Fengxia Ding, Yong An, Yonggang Li, Zhengxia Pan, Gang Wang, Jiangtao Dai, Hongbo Li and Chun Wu
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:320
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. The COVID-19 pandemic is having profound psychological impacts on populations globally, with increasing levels of stress, anxiety, and depression being reported, especially in people with pre-existing medical ...

    Authors: Keir E. J. Philip, Bradley Lonergan, Andrew Cumella, Joe Farrington-Douglas, Michael Laffan and Nicholas S. Hopkinson
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:319
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Exacerbations are critical events in chronic pulmonary obstructive disease (COPD). The frequency of COPD exacerbations is associated with the prognosis, including mortality, but no useful biomarker has been es...

    Authors: Hiroki Tashiro, Yuki Kurihara, Koichiro Takahashi, Hironori Sadamatsu, Tetsuro Haraguchi, Ryo Tajiri, Ayako Takamori, Shinya Kimura and Naoko Sueoka-Aragane
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:318
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. The COVID-19 pandemic reached Europe in early 2020. Convalescent plasma is used without a consistent evidence of efficacy. Our hypothesis is that passive immunization with plasma collected from patients having...

    Authors: Benoît Misset, Eric Hoste, Anne-Françoise Donneau, David Grimaldi, Geert Meyfroidt, Michel Moutschen, Veerle Compernolle, André Gothot, Daniel Desmecht, Mutien Garigliany, Tome Najdovski and Pierre-François Laterre
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:317
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:248

  32. Subclinical tuberculosis (TB) is a potential target for public health intervention because its early identification may reduce TB transmission. We aimed to describe the clinical and laboratory findings of subc...

    Authors: Jinsoo Min, Chaeuk Chung, Sung Soo Jung, Hye Kyeong Park, Sung-Soon Lee and Ki Man Lee
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:316
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. Some patients with interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features (IPAF) showed a progressive course despite therapy. This study aimed to evaluate whether serial changes in the serum levels of surfactant prot...

    Authors: Jingxian Wang, Peiyan Zheng, Zhifeng Huang, Huimin Huang, Mingshan Xue, Chenxi Liao, Baoqing Sun and Nanshan Zhong
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:315
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. The most commonly isolated organisms in a parapneumonic effusion include S. pneumoniae, H. influenzae, and S. aureus. If unusual organisms are isolated from the pleural space, further investigation is warranted t...

    Authors: Kranthikiran Earasi, Caitlin Welch, Adam Zelickson, Clinton Westover, Chintan Ramani, Cameron Sumner and Eric M. Davis
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:314
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  36. Fungal infections are rarely reported as a complication of bronchial thermoplasty (BT) in patients without immunosuppressive comorbidity.

    Authors: Shinji Sasada, Kenshiro Ohmura, Tomoyo Oguri, Yutaro Fujimoto, Saori Murata, Yumi Tsuchiya, Kota Ishioka, Saeko Takahashi, Morio Nakamura and Masahiro Kaji
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:312
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  37. Dysregulation of circRNAs has been reported to be functionally associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The present investigation elucidated the potential role of CircRNA0001859 in regulat...

    Authors: Shuifang Chen, Yinan Yao, Shan Lu, Junjun Chen, Guangdie Yang, Lingfang Tu and Lina Chen
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:311
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Oxidative stress plays an important role in acute lung injury, which is associated with the development and progression of acute respiratory failure. Here, we investigated whether the degree of oxidative stres...

    Authors: Ryo Nagasawa, Yu Hara, Kota Murohashi, Ayako Aoki, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Shigeto Takagi, Satoru Hashimoto, Akihiko Kawana and Takeshi Kaneko
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:310
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP) can lead to sepsis and is associated with high mortality rates in patients presenting with shock and/or respiratory failure and who require mechanical ventilation ...

    Authors: Pierre-François Laterre, Miguel Sánchez-García, Tom van der Poll, Olga de la Rosa, Kathy-Ann Cadogan, Eleuterio Lombardo and Bruno François
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:309
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  40. The recurrence of positive SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid test results in patients with COVID-19 is becoming more important and warrants more attention.

    Authors: Jian Wu, Juan Cheng, Xiaowei Shi, Jun Liu, Biao Huang, Xinguo Zhao, Yuanwang Qiu, Jiong Yu, Hongcui Cao and Lanjuan Li
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:308
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  41. Non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been reported to develop in patients with interstitial pneumonia (IP); however, clinical, radiological, and pathological features remain to be elucidated.

    Authors: Kazumasa Ogawa, Hironori Uruga, Takeshi Fujii, Sakashi Fujimori, Tadasu Kohno, Atsuko Kurosaki, Kazuma Kishi and Shinji Abe
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:307
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic granulomatous disease with still unknown etiology. Our previous studies showed a significantly higher percentage of CD34 + cells in the peripheral blood in patients with sarcoido...

    Authors: Rutkowska Elżbieta, Kwiecień Iwona, Bednarek Joanna, Jahnz-Różyk Karina and Rzepecki Piotr
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:306
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. As a main line of defense of the respiratory tract, the airway epithelium plays an important role in the pathogenesis of asthma. CDHR3 and EMSY were reported to be expressed in the human airway epithelium. Althou...

    Authors: Miaomiao Zhang, Guo Chen, Yu Wang, Shou-Quan Wu, Andrew J. Sandford and Jian-Qing He
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:305
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has reach pandemic proportions globally. For patients with symptoms of fever and cough accompanied by rapid lung damage progression, COVID-19 needs to be distinguished from ...

    Authors: Mengke Cao, Shuangshuang Zhang, Dejie Chu, Ming Xiao, Xiaohong Liu, Lingling Yu, Jing Li, Yi Huang and Fang Fang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:304
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  45. Asthma is a common chronic lung disease in children. We aimed to determine the associations between stress-induced phosphoprotein 1 (STIP1) and glucocorticoid-induced transcript 1 (GLCCI1) polymorphisms and susce...

    Authors: Juan Huang, Xiaolei Hu, Xiangrong Zheng, Jian Kuang, Chentao Liu, Xia Wang and Yongjun Tang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:303
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. The increasing trend of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in becoming the third leading cause of deaths by 2020 is of great concern, globally as well as in India. Dysregulation of protease/anti-prot...

    Authors: Durga Mahor, Vandana Kumari, Kapil Vashisht, Ruma Galgalekar, Ravindra M. Samarth, Pradyumna K. Mishra, Nalok Banerjee, Rajnikant Dixit, Rohit Saluja, Sajal De and Kailash C. Pandey
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:302
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) rapidly reached pandemic proportions. Given that the main target of SARS-CoV-2 are lungs leading to severe pneumonia with hyperactivation of the inf...

    Authors: Laura Pandolfi, Tommaso Fossali, Vanessa Frangipane, Sara Bozzini, Monica Morosini, Maura D’Amato, Sara Lettieri, Mario Urtis, Alessandro Di Toro, Laura Saracino, Elena Percivalle, Stefano Tomaselli, Lorenzo Cavagna, Emanuela Cova, Francesco Mojoli, Paola Bergomi…
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:301
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Usual interstitial pneumonia can present with a probable pattern on high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT), but the probability of identifying usual interstitial pneumonia by surgical lung biopsy in such c...

    Authors: Regina Celia Carlos Tibana, Maria Raquel Soares, Karin Mueller Storrer, Gustavo de Souza Portes Meirelles, Katia Hidemi Nishiyama, Israel Missrie, Ester Nei Aparecida Martins Coletta, Rimarcs Gomes Ferreira and Carlos Alberto de Castro Pereira
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:299
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Cholangiocarcinoma is a rare gastrointestinal malignancy that arises within the intrahepatic, perihilar, and/or extrahepatic bile ducts. Individuals with cystic fibrosis are at increased risk for gastrointesti...

    Authors: Sara W. Carson, Kelly E. Craven, David Nauen, Kristina Montemayor, Mark Yarchoan, William R. Burns, Christian A. Merlo and Natalie E. West
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:298
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  50. Airway remodeling is a major pathological characteristic of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and has been shown to be associated with oxidative stress. Sestrin2 has recently drawn attention as an ...

    Authors: Da-Wei Zhang, Yuan-Yuan Wei, Shuang Ji and Guang-He Fei
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:297
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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