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 ...

Postinfective disease was the most common cause of bronchiectasis (43.2%), followed by idiopathic causes (29.6%). Tuberculosis-, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease –, asthma-, and rheumatoid ...

Again, a lower proportion of patients with bronchiectasis vs. COPD had at least one of these cardiovascular outcomes (60.3% vs. 79.4%; P = .032).

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 ...

To further characterize the extent and severity of bronchiectasis, we ordered high-resolution computed tomography (CT), which showed extensive bilateral lower lobe varicoid and cystic bronchiectasis, ...

Among patients with bronchiectasis, disease severity was higher with a blood eosinophil count less than 50 cells/L or higher than 300 cells/L, according to results published in CHEST.Further ...