Rationale The role bacteria play in the progression of COPD has increasingly been highlighted in recent years. However, the microbial community complexity in the lower airways of patients with COPD is ...

Bronchiectasis was mostly lower-lobes predominant, and 63% of cases could have been partly identified from chest cuts in previous abdominal CT scans. About 40% of participants had visited a ...

THURSDAY, April 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with bronchiectasis, brensocatib leads to a lower annualized rate of pulmonary exacerbations, according to a study published in the April ...

Chest x-ray of patient with a flare of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. Note the right lower and right middle lobe nodular infiltrations. Minimal involvement is also present in the left ...

Patients in China with bronchiectasis in lower- vs higher-income regions are younger and have more severe disease, exacerbations, and respiratory comorbidities. Patients in China with bronchiectasis ...

“Subjects with bronchiectasis may experience lower cardiovascular risk than patients with COPD,” Martina Lo Casto, medical specialist in respiratory diseases at the University of Palermo in ...

Bronchiectasis is a chronic respiratory disorder characterized by the dilation and damage of bronchial walls due to recurrent and prolonged episodes of inflammation and infection. The diagnosis of ...

Meeting Coverage > ERS Inhaled Antibiotic for Bronchiectasis Shows Benefit ... and Then It Doesn't — One negative trial in the phase III PROMIS program blamed squarely on the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Figure 1: (A) Posterior–anterior and (B) lateral chest radiographs from a 48-year-old woman with pulmonary pseudallescherioma, depicting cylindrical and cystic bronchiectasis involving both lower ...

Key takeaways: The relationship between blood eosinophil count and bronchiectasis severity was U-shaped, meaning greater severity with low and high counts. This shape also appeared between ...