New-onset atrial fibrillation during suspected infection in patients meets the Sepsis-3 conceptual criteria of acute organ dysfunction associated with a high risk for mortality.
Including Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry variables in the lung allocation score calculation allowed for enhanced discrimination of disease severity and improved access in patients with cystic fibrosis as well as COPD.
The use of airflow obstruction that is defined as a ratio of forced expiratory volume in 1 second to forced vital capacity of <0.70 can help identify individuals at risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
In elderly patients who are admitted to the hospital with community-acquired pneumonia with sepsis and do not require critical care unit support, the use of high-dose simvastatin may improve clinical outcomes.
Treatment with azithromycin is associated with short-term, but not long-term, changes in lung function in children with cystic fibrosis.
Omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids cannot prevent the occurrence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm infants.
Higher rates of pulmonary complications are more likely to occur in patients who receive high total doses of naloxone for the treatment of opioid overdose in an out-of-hospital setting.
Vocal cord dysfunction can be detected noninvasively with the use of the recently developed technique of dynamic computed tomography of the larynx.
Hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia and alcohol use disorder harbor resistant organisms less frequently than patients without alcohol use disorder.
At a clinically relevant dose, RVX208 improved hemodynamics and reversed pulmonary vascular remodeling in certain pulmonary arterial hypertension models in rats.
