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It’s been a fantastic ride. I’ve enjoyed every moment of it,” Refiloe Masekela, MD, PhD, chair of the Pan African Thoracic Society, told Healio at the American Thoracic Society International ...
Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine have developed a more accurate and cost-effective method to predict ...
Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine have developed a more accurate and cost-effective method to predict ...
Lung ultrasound in children ... of imaging examinations in pediatric UE. Pediatric UEs tend to present lower rates of X-ray requests compared to general UEs when treating children with acute ...
March 25: A severe attack of asthma ... to the lungs. Exposure to cold air, dust. Flu or other viral respiratory infections. Status asthmaticus is diagnosed mainly based on the symptoms and clinical ...
SAN DIEGO — Following use of race-neutral lung function equations, African American and Latino pediatric patients with asthma had reductions in FEV 1 and FVC while white patients with asthma had ...
If a cause is not readily found, a chest X-ray may be ordered; this common imaging study is ... Can early intervention in pediatric asthma improve long-term outcomes? A question that needs an answer.
Background: Echinococcosis is a uncommon condition in pediatric ... lung fields. Laboratory studies showed leukocytosis (16700 × 10^3/μl), elevated CRP 64.9 mg/L and procalcitonin 3.68 ng/ml, and a ...
The researchers reported that for every increase of 10 percentage points in the coverage of Covid-19 vaccination, the prevalence of pediatric asthma symptoms decreased by 0.36 percentage points.
Despite a wealth of available treatments to control the symptoms of chronic asthma, the lung disease has no cure. The discovery of an unexpected cause of asthma could change that. A glitch in the ...
In a laboratory study in mice and human tissues, the researchers revealed how asthma attacks kill cells in the airways of the lungs. They found that when the airways constrict during an asthma ...
In the VOYAGE trial, dupilumab (Dupixent) significantly reduced asthma exacerbations and improved lung function and asthma ... to talk a little bit about pediatric asthma, and again, at the ...