Background Bronchoscopy is a useful tool for the diagnosis of lesions near central airways;
however, the diagnostic accuracy of these procedures for peripheral pulmonary lesions (…

Background: This American Thoracic Society, European Respiratory Society, Japanese
Respiratory Society, and Asociación Latinoamericana de Tórax guideline updates prior …

Cisplatin was the first platinum compound to be introduced as a chemotherapeutic agent
with antineoplastic activity against a wide variety of solid tumors. Renal impairment with a …

… Correspondence and requests for reprints should be addressed to Fayez Kheir, MD, M.Sc.,
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard …

Background: The American Thoracic Society, US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, European Respiratory Society, and Infectious Diseases Society of America jointly …

Yoga is adjunctively utilized outside the United States in the treatment of a variety of
diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but there are no studies …

Rationale: Treatment of pleural infection with instillation of intrapleural tissue plasminogen
activator (tPA) and human recombinant DNase (DNase) has been proven to decrease the …

Background: The American Thoracic Society, European Respiratory Society, Japanese
Respiratory Society, and Asociación Latinoamericana del Tórax convened to update clinical …

Background: The American Thoracic Society, European Respiratory Society, Japanese
Respiratory Society, and Asociación Latinoamericana del Tórax convened to update clinical …

Rationale: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fibrosing interstitial pneumonia with
impaired survival. Previous guidelines recommend antacid medication to improve respiratory …