aDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Institute of Respiratory Medicine, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China bDepartment of Respiratory ...

“Bronchiectasis can only be diagnosed by lung scans, but GPs can suspect it if somebody’s getting lots of infections or lots of mucus or struggling to sort of clear their chest,” says Whittamor ...

1–10 Usually, the bacteriology has been determined by aerobic culture of expectorated sputum. Occasionally ... of pulmonary abscess and possibly bronchiectasis, chronic infection with organisms ...

Have you kicked a cold, bout of flu, RSV, or COVID recently—but can’t get rid of the cough? You’re not alone. The symptom can stick around for weeks after our bodies have cleared a virus.

Patients classified as likely having primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) had bronchiectasis and situs ... the respiratory tract), leading to impaired mucus clearance, persistent airway infections ...

0 Asymptomatic Never diagnosed to have ABPA in the past, presentation with controlled asthma (according to GINA guidelines) and meeting the diagnostic criteria of ABPA (Box 6) 1 Acute Never ...

Abstract: Sputum sounds are a consistent characteristic of every breath in pneumonia patients. Based on this, this research have designed a novel portable continuous monitoring system that collects 30 ...

What Is the Next Step in the Protocol for the Diagnosis of ABPA? A peripheral blood eosinophil count, serum precipitins (or IgG) against A. fumigatus and a chest radiograph along with a high ...