The lung age reflects how well your lungs are performing compared to the average lung function of a healthy person of a similar age.
AI-based imaging tools have shown potential in detecting treatment responses in IPF, supporting the use of ENV-101 and AI imaging as trial endpoints. The forced oscillation technique (FOT) may enhance ...
Credit: Getty Images The road to race-neutral pulmonary function testing has been long and evolving; now, ATS recommends this approach and a Boston hospital offers an implementation model. In July, ...
My recent pulmonary function test (PFT) results indicated a decline in all the areas it measured. That’s not unusual for me. In the spring, my PFT numbers had declined, as well, leading to a diagnosis ...
Dr. Miranda Theodore (Medicine): A 28-year-old woman was transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) of this hospital because of progressive respiratory failure. The patient had been in her usual ...
Riociguat and balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) improve hemodynamics in inoperable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Importantly, comparative effects of riociguat and BPA on different ...
1 First Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Hebei Chest Hospital, Shijiazhuang, China 2 Second Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Hospital of Hebei Medical ...
Frequent appointments and testing are part of life with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). I’ve been living with IPF for eight years now, but the number of those appointments and tests can still ...
Defining qualitative grades of echocardiographic metrics of right heart chamber size and function is critical for screening, clinical assessment, and measurement of therapeutic response in individuals ...