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  1. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors have flagged that there is an error in Fig. 3.

    Authors: Takumi Yoshikawa, Mitsuo Otsuka, Hirofumi Chiba, Kimiyuki Ikeda, Yuki Mori, Yasuaki Umeda, Hirotaka Nishikiori, Koji Kuronuma and Hiroki Takahashi
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:131
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    The original article was published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:27

  2. Home mechanical ventilation is a reliable treatment for patients suffering from chronic respiratory failure, improving survival and quality of life. Prevalence has been increasing worldwide as a result of evol...

    Authors: Luca Valko, Szabolcs Baglyas, Laszlo Kunos, Attila Terray-Horvath, Andras Lorx, Janos Gal and Wolfram Windisch
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:130
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  3. Although typical and atypical CT image findings of COVID-19 are reported in current studies, the CT image features of COVID-19 overlap with those of viral pneumonia and other respiratory diseases. Hence, it is...

    Authors: Lin Luo, Zhendong Luo, Yizhen Jia, Cuiping Zhou, Jianlong He, Jianxun Lyu and Xinping Shen
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:129
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  4. While antifibrotic drugs significantly decrease lung function decline in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), there is still an unmet need to halt disease progression. Antioxidative therapy with N-acetylcystei...

    Authors: Hanyu Shi, Dawei Yin, Francesco Bonella, Michael Kreuter, Ute Oltmanns, Xuren Li, Shouchun Peng and Luqing Wei
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:128
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  5. Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) is frequently associated with chronic respiratory impairment despite microbiological cure. There are only a few clinical research studies that describe the course, type and severit...

    Authors: Celso Khosa, Nilesh Bhatt, Isabel Massango, Khalide Azam, Elmar Saathoff, Abhishek Bakuli, Friedrich Riess, Olena Ivanova, Michael Hoelscher and Andrea Rachow
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:127
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  6. Improvement in health-related quality of life (HRQL) has been suggested as an alternative treatment goal of non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (NTM-PD). This study was performed to elucidate the l...

    Authors: Nakwon Kwak, Sung A Kim, Sun Mi Choi, Jinwoo Lee, Chang-Hoon Lee and Jae-Joon Yim
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:126
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  7. High-concentration oxygen therapy causes increased arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO2) in patients with COPD, asthma, pneumonia, obesity and acute lung injury. The objective of these studies was t...

    Authors: Janine Pilcher, Darmiga Thayabaran, Stefan Ebmeier, Mathew Williams, Geraldine Back, Hamish Collie, Michael Richards, Susan Bibby, Ruth Semprini, Mark Weatherall and Richard Beasley
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:125
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  8. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has been increasingly used for severe neonatal respiratory failure refractory to conventional treatments. To systematically evaluate the complications and mortality o...

    Authors: Jing Xiong, Li Zhang and Lei Bao
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:124
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  9. Previous studies have established a higher prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in patients with COPD, but the relationship between vitamin D levels and COPD exacerbations remains controversial. In addition, the...

    Authors: Auyon J. Ghosh, Matthew Moll, Lystra P. Hayden, Jessica Bon, Elizabeth Regan and Craig P. Hersh
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:123
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  10. Pirfenidone is an antifibrotic agent approved for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The drug is available for Polish patients with IPF since 2017. The PolExPIR study aimed to describe the r...

    Authors: Sebastian Majewski, Adam J. BiaÅ‚as, MaÅ‚gorzata Buchczyk, PaweÅ‚ Gomółka, Katarzyna Górska, Hanna Jagielska-Len, Agnieszka Jarzemska, Ewa Jassem, Dariusz JastrzÄ™bski, Aleksander Kania, Marek Koprowski, RafaÅ‚ Krenke, Jan KuÅ›, Katarzyna Lewandowska, Magdalena M. Martusewicz-Boros, Kazimierz Roszkowski-Åšliż…
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:122
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  11. An asymptomatic SCUBA (Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus) diver was discovered to have an intralobar bronchopulmonary sequestration during routine pre-course screening. This is the first reported c...

    Authors: Timothy Xin Zhong Tan, Andrew Yunkai Li, James Jie Sng, Mark Lim, Zhi Xiang Tan, Hope Xian’en Ang, Boon Hor Ho, David Zhiwei Law and Anne Ann Ling Hsu
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:121
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  12. Although many studies on people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) have examined the mutual impact of physical status and emotional experience, there is limited knowledge about the way COPD peop...

    Authors: Marta Pozzar, Eleonora Volpato, Chiara Valota, Francesco Pagnini and Paolo Innocente Banfi
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:120
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  13. Batefenterol (BAT) is a bi-functional molecule with both muscarinic antagonist and β2-adrenoceptor agonist pharmacology. This Phase II, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study evaluated the safety and ...

    Authors: Courtney Crim, Mark Gotfried, Selwyn Spangenthal, Michael Watkins, Amanda Emmett, Catriona Crawford, Charlotte Baidoo and Ramiro Castro-Santamaria
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:119
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  14. Electronic cigarettes/e-cigarettes (ECs), or vaping, is currently the most popular form of smoking amongst youth in the United States. ECs are battery-powered devices that vaporize a liquid that comes in small...

    Authors: Andrew L. Silverman, Haseeb Siddique, Vikas Kumar, Thuy-Hong Le and Joseph Ng
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:118
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  16. Various host factors can promote pneumonia susceptibility of lung cancer patients. However, data about risk factors for pneumonia in lung cancer patients receiving active treatments such as chemotherapy, radio...

    Authors: Jung Won Heo, Chang Dong Yeo, Chan Kwon Park, Sung Kyoung Kim, Ju Sang Kim, Jin Woo Kim, Seung Joon Kim, Sang Haak Lee and Hye Seon Kang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:117
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  17. Pulmonary cryptococcosis is an uncommon infectious disease that can develop in both immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients. The severity of chronic kidney disease (CKD) was reported to be one of the ri...

    Authors: Hiroki Tashiro, Tetsuro Haraguchi, Koichiro Takahashi, Hironori Sadamatsu, Ryo Tajiri, Ayako Takamori, Shinya Kimura and Naoko Sueoka-Aragane
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:116
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  18. Appropriate management of lung nodules detected incidentally or through lung cancer screening can increase the rate of early-stage diagnoses and potentially improve treatment outcomes. However, the implementat...

    Authors: Gregory P. LeMense, Ernest A. Waller, Cheryl Campbell and Tyler Bowen
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:115
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  19. Handgrip strength (HGS) has been widely studied in clinical and epidemiological settings, but the relationship between HGS and pulmonary function is still controversial. This study analysed pulmonary function ...

    Authors: Liangmei Chen, Xiaomin Liu, Qian Wang, Linpei Jia, Kangkang Song, Sasa Nie, Yinping Zhang, Dan Cao, Delong Zhao, Zuoxiang Li, Zheyi Dong, Ying Zheng, Shuwei Duan, Xuefeng Sun, Zhe Feng, Guangyan Cai…
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:114
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  21. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, lethal disease of which the etiology is still not fully understood. Current treatment comprises two FDA-approved drugs that can slow down yet not stop or rever...

    Authors: Agnes W. Boots, Carmen Veith, Catrin Albrecht, Roger Bartholome, Marie-José Drittij, Sandra M. H. Claessen, Aalt Bast, Martin Rosenbruch, Leonie Jonkers, Frederik-Jan van Schooten and Roel P. F. Schins
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:112
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Inhaled bronchodilators including long-acting beta-agonist (LABA) and long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA) play a central role in the treatment of stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Howev...

    Authors: Akira Koarai, Hisatoshi Sugiura, Mitsuhiro Yamada, Tomohiro Ichikawa, Naoya Fujino, Tomotaka Kawayama and Masakazu Ichinose
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:111
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  23. The involvement of lncRNA FEZF1-AS1 has been analyzed in many types of cancers, while its roles in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains unclear. We then explored the role of FEZF1-AS1 in NSCLC.

    Authors: Shangxiao Huang, Chunjun Li, Jianfeng Huang, Penghui Luo, Dunchang Mo and Hanlei Wang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:110
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  24. Infection is the most common cause of mortality within the first year after lung transplantation (LTx). The management of perioperative antibiotic therapy is a major issue, but little is known about worldwide ...

    Authors: Benjamin Coiffard, Eloi Prud’Homme, Sami Hraiech, Nadim Cassir, Jérôme Le Pavec, Romain Kessler, Federica Meloni, Marc Leone, Pascal Alexandre Thomas, Martine Reynaud-Gaubert and Laurent Papazian
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:109
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  25. The epidemiology of acute kidney injury (AKI) in nonexacerbated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (NECOPD) patients is unknown. This study investigated the factors associated with AKI and the association b...

    Authors: Xiaohong Wang, Zhen Xie, Shuguang Xiong, Wei Xiong, Tian Zhong and Yang Su
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:108
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  26. To investigate whether, in patients hospitalized for COPD, the addition of social factors improves the predictive ability for the risk of overall 30-day readmissions, early readmissions (within 7 days after di...

    Authors: Tadahiro Goto, Kazuki Yoshida, Mohammad Kamal Faridi, Carlos A. Camargo Jr and Kohei Hasegawa
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:107
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  27. Mechanical ventilation (MV), compared to spontaneous breathing (SB), has been found to increase abdominal edema and inflammation in experimental sepsis. Our hypothesis was that in primary acute respiratory dis...

    Authors: Silvia Marchesi, Göran Hedenstierna, Aki Hata, Ricardo Feinstein, Anders Larsson, Anders Olof Larsson and Miklós Lipcsey
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:106
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  28. WHO’s directly observed therapy (DOT) strategy for tuberculosis (TB) treatment depends upon a well–organized healthcare system. This study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of self-administered drug intake ...

    Authors: Vahe Khachadourian, Nune Truzyan, Arusyak Harutyunyan, Varduhi Petrosyan, Hayk Davtyan, Karapet Davtyan, Martin van den Boom and Michael E. Thompson
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:105
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  29. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are the standard treatment for non-small cell lung cancer. The unique adverse events that can arise after treatment with ICIs are known as immune-related adverse events (irA...

    Authors: Takeshi Terashima, Eri Iwami, Takashi Shimada, Aoi Kuroda, Tatsu Matsuzaki, Takahiro Nakajima, Aya Sasaki and Keisuke Eguchi
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:104
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  30. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients with different phenotypes show different clinical characteristics. Therefore, we conducted a meta-analysis to explore the clinical characteristics between ...

    Authors: Jian-jun Wu, Hong-ri Xu, Ying-xue Zhang, Yi-xuan Li, Hui-yong Yu, Liang-duo Jiang, Cheng-xiang Wang and Mei Han
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:103
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  33. The tracheobronchomalacia is a life-threatening complication of mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) without known effective, optimal treatment. The severe expiratory collapse of the trachea and bronchi is one of cause...

    Authors: Wojciech Gocyk, Janusz Warmus, Henryk Olechnowicz, Miroslaw Bik-Multanowski, Lukasz Pawlinski and Beata Kiec-Wilk
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:99
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  34. Acute fibrinous and organizing pneumonitis (AFOP) is an uncommon variant of acute lung injury, characterized by intra-alveolar fibrin and organizing pneumonia. Proposed etiologies include connective tissue dis...

    Authors: Jiangnan Zhao, Yi Shi, Dongmei Yuan, Qunli Shi, Weiping Wang and Xin Su
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:98
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  35. Spirometry is useful for evaluating respiratory health status and predicting health-related outcomes. As spirometry requires skilled technician and takes time, it is useful to find simple way for predicting lu...

    Authors: Makiko Kanai, Osamu Kanai, Kohei Fujita, Tadashi Mio and Masato Ito
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:97
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  36. The prognostic value of elevated pretreatment platelet counts remains controversial in lung cancer patients. We performed the present meta-analysis to determine its precise role in these patients.

    Authors: Yuan Yuan, Hai Zhong, Liang Ye, Qian Li, Surong Fang, Wei Gu and Yingying Qian
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:96
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  37. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors flagged that the name provided for the 4th author had been misspelled; the 4th author was (incorrectly) spelled as ‘Eyob Alemayehu Gebreyohanns’.

    Authors: Tadesse Melaku Abegaz, Efrata Ashuro Shegena, Natnael Fentie Gessie, Eyob Alemayehu Gebreyohannes and Mohammed Assen Seid
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:95
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    The original article was published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:48

  38. Malignant melanoma (MM) generally presents as a primary neoplasm of the skin, and most MM cases of the respiratory system are metastatic. Primary MM of the lung (PMML) is quite rare, and its diagnosis is relat...

    Authors: Shuangshuang Deng, Xiaobo Sun, Zhen Zhu, Jingjing Lu, Guanghua Wen, Xuejiao Chang, Hui Gao, Yanfei Hua, Lumei Wang and Jinli Gao
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:94
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  39. Kartagener syndrome, an autosomal recessive disorder with a triad of chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis, and situs inversus, is characterized by recurrent respiratory tract infections and chronic inflammation o...

    Authors: Yoshiaki Nagai, Nobuyuki Koyama, Yuki Iwai, Hiroyoshi Tsubochi, Masahiro Hiruta, Yoshiko Mizushina, Shinichiro Koyama, Yuichi Ishikawa and Koichi Hagiwara
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:93
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  40. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with pulmonary fibrosis and endothelial apoptosis in pulmonary tissues. Chronic intermittent hypoxia (IH) is considered to be the primary player in OSA, but the mech...

    Authors: Zhihui Shi, Linhao Xu, Hui Xie, Ruoyun Ouyang, Ya Ke, Rui Zhou and Wing-Ho Yung
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:92
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. The most prevalent complication of percutaneous lung biopsy is pneumothorax (PNX). A routine immediate post-procedure CT scan (ICT) to spot PNX is done in many centers. However, the diagnostic yield of this pr...

    Authors: Rafael Y. Brzezinski, Ifat Vigiser, Irina Fomin, Lilach Israeli, Shani Shenhar-Tsarfaty and Amir Bar-Shai
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:91
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  43. At present, serum Aspergillus IgG and IgM antibody detection is mainly used in the diagnosis of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA), but its value in the diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) in n...

    Authors: Qihong Yu, Jingdong He, Bin Xing, Xin Li, Hongyu Qian, Hong Zhang, Meilin Xu and Haiying Peng
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:89
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Surprisingly little is known about asthma control among asthmatics who smoke. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate asthma symptom control according to the GINA guidelines among asthmatics w...

    Authors: Toni Kiljander, Tuija Poussa, Timo Helin, Antero Jaakkola, Kari Venho and Lauri Lehtimäki
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:88
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  45. The 12-week, multicentre, observational INITIAL study (NCT02143739) assessed asthma severity in newly diagnosed Chinese patients.

    Authors: Jiangtao Lin, Xiuhua Fu, Ping Jiang, Weidong Song, Xiaoyun Hu, Zhijun Jie, Chuntao Liu, Zhengguang He, Xiangdong Zhou and Huaping Tang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:87
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  46. Work-related respiratory disorders are major contributors to the global burden of respiratory diseases. Agricultural workers are exposed to a number of dusts, which may contribute to the development of respira...

    Authors: Gashaw Garedew Woldeamanuel, Alemu Basazin Mingude, Getachew Yideg Yitbarek and Mitku Mammo Taderegew
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:86
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  47. NTP42 is a novel antagonist of the thromboxane prostanoid receptor (TP), currently in development for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). PAH is a devastating disease with multiple pathophysio...

    Authors: Eamon P. Mulvaney, Helen M. Reid, Lucia Bialesova, Annie Bouchard, Dany Salvail and B. Therese Kinsella
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:85
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  48. Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is characterized by the accumulation of surfactant proteins within the alveolar spaces. Autoimmune PAP (APAP) caused by elevated levels of GM-CSF autoantibodies (GM-Ab) is ...

    Authors: S. Sato, K. Akasaka, H. Ohta, Y. Tsukahara, G. Kida, E. Tsumiyama, K. Kusano, T. Oba, T. Nishizawa, R. Kawabe, H. Yamakawa, M. Amano, H. Matsushima and T. Takada
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:84
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  49. Eosinophilic pleural effusion (EPE) is attributed to several well-recognised causes. However, some patients remain idiopathic, even after thorough clinical work-up. The present study aimed to better characteri...

    Authors: Weizhan Luo, Yunxiang Zeng, Panxiao Shen, Jianxing He and Jinlin Wang
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:82
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  50. Synchronous multiple primary lung cancers (sMPLC) are rare forms of lung cancer, and their diagnosis remains as a significant challenge. Distinguishing sMPLC from advanced disease is important as their prognos...

    Authors: Yang Song, Ziqi Jia, Pancheng Wu, Weiwei Wang, Qiuxiang Ou, Hua Bao, Man Yu, Xue Wu, Peng Liu, Naixin Liang, Shuyang Zhang and Shanqing Li
    Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2020 20:80
    Content type: Case report Published on:
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