The relationships between cigarette smoking and heart disease, lung cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are well known; in contrast, the topic of the relationship between smoking ...

Pulmonary hemosiderosis (PH) is a rare, chronic lung disease characterized by hemoptysis, iron deficiency anemia, and alveolar and/or interstitial opacities on lung imaging. Little about the etiology ...

Leesburg, VA, October 20, 2021—According to ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), radiologists’ sensitivity on chest radiographs for reticular opacity in patients with interstitial lung ...

(A) Coronal chest CT shows bilateral lower lobe pleural-based mild reticular opacities with traction bronchiectasis (arrows). (B) Chest radiograph shows subtle corresponding subpleural opacities in ...

A literature search was carried out for this briefing in accordance with the interim process and methods statement for medtech innovation briefings. This briefing includes the most relevant or best ...

The investigators made a presumptive diagnosis of acute interstitial pneumonia after the patient presented with fever, chills, muscle pain and a dry cough, which deteriorated into respiratory failure, ...