Mutant RAS, they ... Nov. 6, 2024 — Exhaled breath contains chemical clues to what's going on inside the body, including diseases like lung cancer. And devising ways to sense these compounds ...

Background A major gap in the management of sarcoidosis is the lack of accessible and objective methods to measure disease activity. Since 90% of patients have pulmonary involvement, we explored if a ...

COPD is a progressive, irreversible inflammatory disease of the lungs that makes it difficult to breathe. Cigarette smoking is the most common cause of COPD. Common symptoms include a persistent cough ...

IS THAT THE CASE? WE DON’T WORRY TOO MUCH ABOUT WOMEN HAVING MORE LUNG DISEASE THAN MEN, BUT CERTAINLY THERE’S SOME REALLY SERIOUS CONDITIONS THAT WOMEN CAN SUFFER FROM THAT WILL LEAD TO LUNG ...

3 Interdepartmental Research Center of Systemic Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Diseases, Rheumatology Unit, Policlinico Le Scotte, University of Siena, Siena, Italy Blau syndrome (BS) and early-onset ...

Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a broad term for a group of conditions that cause lung inflammation and/or fibrosis (scarring). Lung damage from ILD can make breathing difficult, leading to ...

In patients with some form of ILD, investigations to exclude connective tissue disease is typically performed; if this is ruled out, a diagnosis of AAV should be considered. Microscopic polyangiitis ...

In the last year, we have observed large pulmonary embolisms (PEs) in four of 85 patients that attended ... We know little about the patients other than their International Classification of Diseases ...

Here, we focus on the development of 3D lung organoids and their use as disease models and drug screening tools. We introduce the various experimental approaches used to model complex human diseases ...

Pulmonary fibrosis is a rare, chronic disease that causes scarring in the lungs, making breathing difficult for people who suffer with it. And, as Jose Herazo-Maya, MD, knows all too well, it is ...