Adding pirfenidone to mycophenolate mofetil shows no significant improvement in lung function compared with mycophenolate alone, in a trial of systemic sclerosis-related interstitial lung disease.

For lung resection candidates, adding cardiopulmonary exercise testing parameters to basic clinical data and pulmonary function tests did not yield a significant improvement in machine learning models ...

aDepartment of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Immunology, National Jewish Health, 1400 Jackson Street, Denver, CO 80206, USA bDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy and Immunology, National ...

A 68-year-old man with severe pulmonary arterial hypertension, or PAH — high blood pressure in the lungs — and multiple coexisting conditions saw considerable improvements after being given ...

Abstract: With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), AI-assisted medical imaging analysis demonstrates remarkable performance in early lung cancer screening. However, the costly ...

Introduction: Patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) experience exertional dyspnea that is related to elevated pulmonary arterial (PA) and venous pressures. These ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...

Objective To investigate the relationship between eosinophil (EOS) and CT imaging, we quantitatively evaluated the bronchial wall thickening, emphysema index (EI) and pulmonary vascular parameters in ...

Smoking can cause lungs to look blackened, inflated, and inflamed, but some of the damage is reversible. Depending on the extent of the damage, it could take years for your lungs to regain a healthy, ...