Current Respiratory Medicine Reviews - Volume 15, Issue 1, 2019

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a debilitating, progressive, and fatal fibrotic lung disease with a poor prognosis. Antifibrotic therapy slows but does not halt disease progression. Patient education and management needs change during disease progression. Management is complicated by comorbidities, adverse events associated with antifibrotic therapy, and difficulties with long-term oxygen therapy and pulmonary rehabili Read More

Background: The Glittre ADL test was done to assess the functional capacity of patients with COPD. 6 MWT was used to check for functional capacity, but there was a limitation of upper limb work or activities other than walking. Objective: To develop reference equations for Glittre ADL test on the basis of anthropometric and demographic variables in healthy individual among Indian population. Methods: This cross-sectio Read More

Background: Most TB deaths can be prevented with timely diagnosis and appropriate treatment. In fact, millions of people are diagnosed and treated successfully every year, avoiding millions of deaths. However, globally, there are still huge gaps in detection and treatment. Objective: To identify the social determinants associated with mortality due to TB in a general hospital in Mexico. Methodology: All patients admitted w Read More

Background: Open access (OA) publishing is rapidly emerging in almost all disciplines, with variable intensity and effect on the discipline itself. The move toward OA is also observed in the field of respiratory and pulmonology, where both OA data repositories and OA journals are rapidly emerging. Objective: we aim to study the open-access status of respiratory and pulmonology journals and the impact of the open-acces Read More

Background: The modified Medical Research Council scale (mMRC) is a standardized measure of the effect of dyspnea on the activities of the daily life of patients suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). The aim of this study was to determine the differences in the quality of life, tolerance to effort and symptoms among patients with COPD with lower (mMRC 0-1) and greater symptoms (mMRC ≥2). Methods Read More

Objective: Pulmonary hydatid cyst is caused by Echinococcus Species and has high prevalence in low and middle income countries. Surgery remains the gold standard method for this parasitic pulmonary disease. Here, we report 20 cases of pulmonary hydatid cysts that underwent minimally invasive videothoracoscopic surgery. Methodology: All the patients who underwent minimally invasive complete thoracoscopic Read More

Background: COPD being a systemic inflammatory disease is accompanied by alteration of various inflammatory cytokines which affect the metabolic equilibrium of body. Some therapeutic options, mainly statins via their wide range of pharmacologic actions alter the level of proinflammatory cytokines hence, helpful in attenuating various extra-pulmonary consequences of COPD. We did a randomised case-co Read More

Background: Lymphoblastic lymphomas (LL) of the mediastinum are rare tumours that present a challenging diagnosis. The positive diagnosis is based on microscopic findings. Our aim was to highlight the diagnostic difficulties in such situations. Methods: We conducted a descriptive retrospective study including 31 patients presenting mediastinal LL. Results: Radiologic features consisted in all cases in a mediastinal inf Read More

Objectives: Primary cardiac tumors are rare and account for 0.001 to 0.03% of cardiac lesions. The authors aim to describe the clinical, the microscopic and the therapeutic characteristics of these tumors through a 13-year-experience in order to highlight the diagnostic challenges faced. Methods: We report 10 primary cardiac tumors diagnosed in the Departments of Pathology and Thoracic Surgery of the same hospital t Read More

In the current technical note, the structure of pulmonary hydatid cysts has been presented and the included layers have been discussed. Then, some critical notes have been provided for the management of intact pulmonary hydatid cyst which should not be removed by bronchoscopic approaches due to high rates of possible complications of tearing; however, it has been performed by some cases available in the literat Read More