Rationale: Bronchial thermoplasty (BT) is a bronchoscopic procedure in which controlled
thermal energy is applied to the airway wall to decrease smooth muscle. Objectives: To …

Background: Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) with transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA)
is becoming widely used for mediastinal lymph node staging in patients with known or …

Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis was first described by Rosen et al in 1958. 1 It is an unusual
diVuse lung disease characterised by the accumulation of large amounts of a …

Background Lung volume reduction surgery improves survival in selected patients with
emphysema, and has generated interest in bronchoscopic approaches that might achieve the …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by inflammation of the
respiratory tract in which macrophages are the predominant inflammatory cell and for which the …

… PL Shah has received a grant from Boston Scientific; is on the advisory board for Olympus;
has received payment for lectures from Novartis and Boston Scientific; has been reimbursed …

Background Cardiopulmonary bypass initiates a systemic inflammatory response syndrome
that is associated with postoperative morbidity and mortality. Steroids suppress inflammatory …

Transbronchial cryobiopsies (TBCB) have recently been introduced as a promising and safer
alternative to surgical lung biopsy in the diagnostic approach to diffuse parenchymal lung …

Some patients hospitalized with acute COVID-19 suffer respiratory symptoms that persist for
many months. We delineated the immune-proteomic landscape in the airways and …

Rationale: This is the first multicenter randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness
and safety of Zephyr Endobronchial Valve (EBV) in patients with little to no collateral …