According to data from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service in 2023, there are an estimated 15,000 patients ...

Trained immunity in alveolar macrophages can lead to damaging lung inflammation, confirming the importance of context in this phenomenon.

Results come after positive results from a trial among people with idiopathic pulmomary disease.

Lung sounds represent a relevant source of information about the state of the lung parenchyma. Accordingly, several efforts have been made to obtain a quantitative characterization as well as a ...

Researchers in Japan have successfully generated lung cells similar to alveolar epithelial type 2 (AT2) cells from mouse ...

Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide. It causes chronic lung disease and predisposes individuals to acute lung injury and pulmonary infection. Alveolar macrophages are ...

We read an interesting study by Spielmann et al conducted on a single-centre large French cohort, which identified that anti-Ku autoantibodies were effective biomarkers for two distinct connective ...

Background Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a heterogeneous disease with frequently associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD). We aimed to determine the prognostic potential of phenotyping patients ...

Objective Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is an important cause of mortality in some patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Patient-level factors may predict which patients with RA are at the ...

Objectives Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a severe extra-articular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The objectives of this study were to estimate mortality rate in patients with RA-ILD ...