Blog categorized as Respiratory
Many professions entail the risk of developing lung diseases. Therefore, it is advisable for pulmonologists to consider a differential diagnosis for each primary pattern of respiratory disease, which includes both occupational and environmental exposures.
Peripheral airways have been disregarded, mainly due to their inaccessibility with traditional tests. Discover the new non-invasive technique that helps accurately assess them.
Although spirometry is a straightforward and cost-effective test, it is often underutilized. This blog explores its advantages among patients, especially those facing occupational exposure to hazardous particles.
Explore groundbreaking developments in pulmonary health research, such as the pivotal move by the ATS to eliminate race and ethnicity from spirometry, among other notable milestones aimed at improving pulmonary disease management.
LFX is a cutting-edge solution that provides healthcare professionals with sophisticated tools to conduct high-quality lung assessments.
Oscillometry can detect small airway hyper-responsiveness, offering more information about the patient’s prognosis for asthma or COPD. It complements spirometry providing additional insights. By utilizing both tests, physicians can make more informed patient treatment decisions.
In this article, we will focus on presenting an overview of asthma through the available figures according to reports from various researchers and organizations.
Learn about the latest updates in the 2022 GINA Asthma Guide, including asthma and COVID-19, diagnosis, management in LMICs, symptom control, treatment strategies, and more.
The American Thoracic Society says that those parameters are no longer relevant to interpret spirometry nor other PFTs. Read here why they came to this conclusion.
Here is a quick reference guide to help you learn the more relevant changes in a few words.
Can accelerated decline in lung function predict cardiovascular events? This is what the ARIC study found.
We have selected some of the most relevant points to give you a broad overview of changes and additions in a few words
Although spirometry has proven to be very useful for researching and keeping under control chronic diseases, such as asthma, this diagnostic tool is underutilized in many countries.
The COVID-19 pandemic garnered attention of health matters, which alarmingly reversed the progress that had been made in providing essential services to reduce the incidence of tuberculosis.
The use of clinical signs as a sole guide to assess the severity of respiratory conditions is very limited. This study shows that performing spirometry whenever patients report dyspnea makes a big difference in clinical outcomes.
The use of clinical signs as a sole guide to assess the severity of respiratory conditions is very limited. This study shows that performing spirometry whenever patients report dyspnea makes a big difference in clinical outcomes.
A distinctive feature of dysosmias in COVID-19 is that they appear relatively early, in contrast to what was observed in SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome).
Performing tests that meet the criteria indicated by the American Thoracic Society (ATS) allows adequate patient care.
Hospital survival in case of severe COVID-19 involvement is often associated with residual fibrotic lung abnormalities, evidenced by pulmonary CT at the time of discharge, and lung function tests.
Is there anything in common between the pandemic we are currently confronting and previous pandemics? There's definitely a certain parallel that's worth analyzing. In this paper we highlight data that will allow us to have a reference point to compare the Spanish influenza (or Spanish flu) epidemic ...
