Mar. 3, 2025 — A new study sheds light on ventilator-induced lung injury, a complication that gained increased attention during the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to a surge in patients requiring ...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is the most common type of pulmonary fibrosis. It is a disease that causes scarring (fibrosis) of the lungs. The word "idiopathic" means it has no known cause.

Pulmonary fibrosis is a disease where there is scarring of the lungs—called fibrosis—which makes it difficult to breathe. This is because the scarring causes the tissues in the lungs to get thick and ...

Lung biopsy is a relatively frequently performed procedure with considerable benefit for patient management but it may, on rare occasions, result in the death of the patient. It is a multidisciplinary ...

For both research and clinical purposes, measures of lung involvement should ideally be (1) sensitive enough to detect abnormalities early and directly reflect changes in disease severity, either ...

Although idiopathic constrictive bronchiolitis is rare, the lesion is common among lung-transplant recipients. The lesion also occurs from certain types of toxic fumes, some of the connective ...

J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2007;22(9):1423-1428. The diagnosis of gastroparesis was not made in any of our patients, despite severe symptoms, until they were referred to adult or pediatric ...