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  1. 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
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  2. 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
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  3. 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
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  4. 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
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  5. 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
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2021 21:248

  6. 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
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  7. 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
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  8. 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
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  10. 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
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  11. 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
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  12. 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
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  13. 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
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  14. 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
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  15. 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
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  16. 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
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  17. 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
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  18. 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
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  19. 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
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  20. 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
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  21. 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
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  22. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an underdiagnosed condition sharing risk factors with lung cancer. Lung cancer screening may provide an opportunity to improve COPD diagnosis. Using Pan-Canadian...

    Authors: John R. Goffin, Gregory R. Pond, Serge Puksa, Alain Tremblay, Michael Johnston, Glen Goss, Garth Nicholas, Simon Martel, Rick Bhatia, Geoffrey Liu, Heidi Schmidt, Sukhinder Atkar-Khattra, Annette McWilliams, Ming-Sound Tsao, Martin C. Tammemagi and Stephen Lam
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:300
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  23. 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
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  24. 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
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  25. 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
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  26. Mucosal nodules can be caused by infection, inflammation and neoplastic disease. Many noninfectious diseases, such as eosinophilia, amyloidosis, sarcoidosis, Wegener’s granuloma, langerhans cell histiocytosis ...

    Authors: Lujin Wu, Qianru Leng, Yan Wang, Daowen Wang and Danlei Yang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:296
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  27. Paediatric cases of pleomorphic adenoma of the bronchus are rare in clinical practice, despite pleomorphic adenoma being the most common histological form of salivary gland neoplasm. To date, no such cases hav...

    Authors: Haiqin Zhong, Silei Yan, Kung Jiang, Yijing Hu and Xiaoyan Dong
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:295
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  28. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Esmaeil Mortaz, Majid Malkmohammad, Hamidreza Jamaati, Parisa Adimi Naghan, Seyed Mohamad Reza Hashemian, Payam Tabarsi, Maohammad Varahram, Hamidreza Zaheri, Efsun Gonca Uğur Chousein, Gert Folkerts and Ian M. Adcock
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:294
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    The original article was published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:269

  29. The close association between bronchiectasis and nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (NTM-PD) is well-known. However, the clinical impact of subsequent new-onset NTM-PD in bronchiectasis patients ha...

    Authors: Nakwon Kwak, Jong Hyuk Lee, Hyung-Jun Kim, Sung A. Kim and Jae-Joon Yim
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:293
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  30. Pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyoma (PBML) is a rare disease characterized by leiomyoma of benign histopathology existing in the lungs. Because of its rarity, limited literature with a single case or smal...

    Authors: Rong Fan, Fengzhi Feng, Hua Yang, Kaifeng Xu, Shanqing Li, Yan You, Xirun Wan and Lan Zhu
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:292
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  31. Pneumothorax as a consequence of pulmonary barotrauma during explosive decompression military crew training in a hypobaric chamber is an extremely rare and sparsely diagnosed complication. Extensive bilateral ...

    Authors: Jakub Tlapák, Boris Oniščenko, Petr Došel, Pavel Požár, Petr Chmátal and Michal Hájek
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:291
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  32. The clinical correlates, prognosis and determinants of acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) remain largely unclear.

    Authors: Ling Sang, Sibei Chen, Xia Zheng, Weijie Guan, Zhihui Zhang, Wenhua Liang, Ming Zhong, Li Jiang, Chun Pan, Wei Zhang, Jiaan Xia, Nanshan Chen, Wenjuan Wu, Hongkai Wu, Yonghao Xu, Xuesong Liu…
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:290
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  33. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a devastating condition characterized by progressive lung function decline and early mortality. While early accurate diagnosis is essential for IPF treatment, data evalua...

    Authors: Shehabaldin Alqalyoobi, Evans R. Fernández Pérez and Justin M. Oldham
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:289
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  34. The number of reports on sarcoidosis complicated by hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is limited, and most describe cases complicated by chronic bird-related HP. Here, we present for the first time a case with Pr...

    Authors: Michiru Sawahata, Noritaka Sakamoto, Hideaki Yamasawa, Yuki Iijima, Hirotoshi Kawata, Tetsuo Yamaguchi, Keisuke Uchida, Yoshinobu Eishi, Masashi Bando and Koichi Hagiwara
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:288
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  35. Although cigarette smoking may have a negative impact on the clinical outcome of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), few studies have investigated the impact of smoking-associated lung diseases. Emphysema is a major...

    Authors: Naoki Takasaka, Yoshitaka Seki, Ikumi Fujisaki, Shota Uchiyama, Sachi Matsubayashi, Akihito Sato, Yumie Yamanaka, Kyuto Odashima, Taisuke Kazuyori, Aya Seki, Hiroshi Takeda, Takeo Ishikawa and Kazuyoshi Kuwano
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:287
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  36. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common respiratory condition characterised by dyspnoea during daily life. As the disease progresses, people with COPD can experience poor quality of life, redu...

    Authors: Sarah Hug, Vinicius Cavalheri, Daniel F. Gucciardi, Richard Norman and Kylie Hill
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:286
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  37. Regular physical activity (PA) is a valued part of cystic fibrosis (CF) care. Although the accelerometer, SenseWear Armband (SWA), accurately measures habitual PA in CF, it is mostly used for research purposes...

    Authors: Daniela Savi, Luigi Graziano, Barbara Giordani, Stefano Schiavetto, Corrado De Vito, Giuseppe Migliara, Nicholas J. Simmonds, Paolo Palange and J. Stuart Elborn
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:285
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  38. Diagnosis of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) depends on the presence of clinical, radiological and microbiological findings. Endotracheal suction aspirate (ETSA) is the commonest respiratory sample s...

    Authors: Salima Rattani, Joveria Farooqi, Ghazala Jabeen, Saeeda Chandio, Qaiser Kash, Aijaz Khan and Kauser Jabeen
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:284
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  39. Matrix metalloproteinase 2 (MMP2) has been found to be related to malignant tumors; the aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between MMP2 expression in lung cancer tissues and clinical paramete...

    Authors: Liping Han, Baowei Sheng, Qingdi Zeng, Wei Yao and Qiufang Jiang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:283
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  40. We aimed to assess the association between inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) and the risk of upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

    Authors: Hong Chen, Yulin Feng, Ke Wang, Jing Yang and Yuejun Du
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:282
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  41. Obesity in children and adolescents is associated with increased morbidity and mortality due to multisystemic impairment, including deleterious changes in lung function, which are poorly understood.

    Authors: Mariana Simões Ferreira, Fernando Augusto Lima Marson, Vaneza Lira Waldow Wolf, José Dirceu Ribeiro and Roberto Teixeira Mendes
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:281
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  42. Exposure to toner, a substance used in photocopiers and printers, has been associated with siderosilicosis and other adverse effects. However, these findings are limited, and there is insufficient evidence on ...

    Authors: Niina Terunuma, Kazunori Ikegami, Hiroko Kitamura, Hajime Ando, Shizuka Kurosaki, Masashi Masuda, Takeshi Kochi, Nobuaki Yanagi, Yoshihisa Fujino, Akira Ogami and Toshiaki Higashi
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:280
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  43. Due to the fact that pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) is a highly infectious respiratory disease characterized by high herd susceptibility and hard to be treated, this study aimed to search novel effective biomark...

    Authors: Yahong Sun, Gang Chen, Zhihao Liu, Lina Yu and Yan Shang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:279
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  44. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a key process in the onset and development of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) with unclear mechanisms. Our previous studies found that bleomycin and tunicamycin c...

    Authors: Ling Gong, Gang Liu, Honglan Zhu, Caihong Li, Pengmei Li, Changlu Liu, Hongbo Tang, Kaifeng Wu, Jie Wu, Daishun Liu and Xiaoping Tang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:278
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  45. Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by deteriorated exocrine gland function with associated lymphocytic infiltration. However, there are few pathological studies on bronchial...

    Authors: Hiroko Okabayashi, Tomohisa Baba, Ryota Ootoshi, Ryota Shintani, Erina Tabata, Satoshi Ikeda, Takashi Niwa, Tsuneyuki Oda, Ryo Okuda, Akimasa Sekine, Hideya Kitamura, Shigeru Komatsu, Eri Hagiwara, Tamiko Takemura, Takuro Sakagami and Takashi Ogura
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:277
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  46. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) characterized by the airway and lung inflammation, is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, especially among smokers over 40 years of age and indivi...

    Authors: Haifeng Zhou, Lei Zhang, Yang Li, Guorao Wu, He Zhu, Huilan Zhang, Jia-Kun Su, Lei Guo, Qing Zhou, Fei Xiong, Qilin Yu, Ping Yang, Shu Zhang, Jibao Cai and Cong-Yi Wang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:276
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  47. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is an ongoing pandemic that profoundly challenges healthcare systems all over the world. Fever, ...

    Authors: Elise Peys, Dieter Stevens, Yannick Vande Weygaerde, Thomas Malfait, Laurens Hermie, Philippe Rogiers, Pieter Depuydt and Eva Van Braeckel
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:275
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  48. The early diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer is of great significance to the prognosis of patients. However, traditional histopathology and imaging screening have certain limitations. Therefore, new diagn...

    Authors: Jingyao Li, Yi Liao, Yaling Ran, Guiyu Wang, Wei Wu, Yang Qiu, Jie Liu, Ningyu Wen, Tao Jing, Haidong Wang and Shixin Zhang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:274
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  50. Previous studies have shown that serum uric acid (UA) levels are correlated with the severity of idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH) and are predictors of disease prognosis. Still, few studies ha...

    Authors: Jingya Wang, Yuanyuan Wang, Xiaodi Li, Yingheng Huang, Xiaoxuan Sun, Qiang Wang and Miaojia Zhang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:272
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