When lungs fail to maintain vital oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, respiratory failure occurs, posing a serious threat. This ...

Combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema (CPFE) has been increasingly recognized in the literature. Patients with CPFE are usually heavy smokers or former smokers with concomitant lower lobe fibrosis ...

Registry analysis suggests endoscopic lung volume reduction yields similar physiologic gains across sexes, but women report ...

Men and women with emphysema benefit from endoscopic lung volume reduction (ELVR), but women may have better symptom response and QoL.

The woeful state of Viking bathrooms could be a factor behind smokers’ coughs in Scandinavia. Sometimes in human evolution, populations adapt in ways that aren’t always beneficial in the long run. For ...

Background: Matrix metalloproteases (MMPs) are believed to be important in the pathogenesis of cigarette smoke-induced emphysema, but this hypothesis has only been proved in the mouse and its ...

Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China Combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema (CPFE) is defined as a ...

Spontaneous pneumomediastinum (SPM) and pneumothorax (PNX) unrelated to positive pressure ventilation has been recently reported as an unusual complication in cases of severe COVID-19 pneumonia. The ...

1 Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Divison of General Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Department ...