“Patients with pulmonary edema generally describe breathlessness. Sometimes they feel like they are suffocating or breathing ...

Global pulmonary function testing market growth is driven by rising prevalence of chronic respiratory diseases, increasing geriatric population, and growing adoption of diagnostic monitoring ...

Background The relationship of social determinants of health (SDOH), environmental exposures and medical history to lung function trajectories is underexplored. A better understanding of these ...

A recent study published in the journal of Radiology showed that dynamic chest radiography (DCR) may serve as an effective alternative to traditional pulmonary function tests (PFTs) for screening ...

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 ...

Abstract: The growing prevalence of pulmonary diseases underscores the urgent need for early diagnosis to reduce mortality rates. Traditional pulmonary function tests (PFTs) often require active ...

If you have scarring in your lungs, you may have been diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis. When the reason for this scarring is unknown, your condition is called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). You ...

I remember how exciting it was as kids when Mom served us alphabet soup, seeing all those little letters we were trying to learn. My late husband, Steve, and I felt like we were looking at a bowl of ...

Evaluation for pulmonary hypertension (PH) in patients with cancer must include either lung ventilation/perfusion scan or dual-energy computed tomography of the chest to evaluate for acute and/or ...

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, ...

Last July, a team of physicians and researchers successfully proposed modifications to the American Medical Association (AMA) Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, advocating against the ...