Early acute rejection following lung transplantation can be safely detected and graded by transbronchial biopsy via bronchoscopy.

Constrictive bronchiolitis obliterans is an important respiratory illness because of its underlying irreversible fibrotic process, and is defined as concentric fibrosis in the bronchiolar ...

Idiopathic obliterative bronchiolitis disorder is rare and has been described in only a few case reports. [7] The illness begins with shortness of breath and a nonproductive cough with no ...

Pathology is the precise study of the causes and consequences of a disease. The two major components of pathology are anatomical studies of structure and function at levels ranging from the whole ...

The speech-language pathology program at Dalhousie University involves three years of full-time study allotted to course work, clinical practica, and a research project or thesis. The program leads to ...

This narrowing results from swelling caused by a virus. The respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes most bronchiolitis. RSV occurs in epidemics almost every winter. People do not develop life-long ...

This narrowing results from swelling caused by a virus. The respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes most bronchiolitis. RSV occurs in epidemics almost every winter. People do not develop life-long ...

BACKGROUND Respiratory bronchiolitis-associated interstitial lung disease (RBILD) is a rare form of interstitial lung disease which may present in similar fashion to other types of chronic ...

A team from Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is leading the national rollout of a new radiographer-led nasogastric tube position check pathway after their efforts showed long-term positive results.

While the exact causes of pathology during RSV infection are still contested, the data suggest that pulmonary pathology may be mediated through a lack of T-helper cell 1 (Th1) pro-inflammatory ...

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory diseases, cancers, diabetes, and neuropsychiatric diseases cause significant global morbidity and mortality which ...