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Interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) are a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by inflammation and/or fibrosis.1Â Pulmonary fibrosis develops due to repeated cycles of injury and impaired repair with fibroblast activation and migration with the resultant deposition of extracellular matrix ...
Lung cancer accounts for the highest cancer-related mortality and is the second most common cause of malignancy worldwide.1Â Diagnosis at an early stage (ES) has a direct effect on management and survival rates. Overall, the 5-year survival rate from 2013 to 2019 ...
Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related death.1Â However, five-year survival in lung cancer varies greatly based on the stage of the disease at diagnosis.2Â Early lung cancer diagnosis through screening with low-dose computed tomography (CT) demonstrated a 20% reduction ...
Case Presentation The patient described was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) at 2 years of age. She was pancreatic insufficient and had an F508del homozygous genotype. Her pretransplant CF-course was complicated by CF-related diabetes, chronic sino-pulmonary colonization with Pseudomonas aeruginosa (...
Tube thoracostomy (chest tube placement) is a common procedure used in pathologic conditions to drain the pleural space of air (pneumothorax), blood (hemothorax), serum (pleural effusion), lymph (chylothorax), pus (empyema), or a combination of these.1 In these instances, when an ...
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