Marking Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Day 2025 on February 2, it's essential to shed light on the often-overlooked ...

While LDCT screening can find some lung cancers early enough to improve survival, it's hoped that a blood test (biomarker test) will be developed to use alongside CT screening to reduce the false ...

Background: Lung cancer is ... low dose (50 MA or less) CT images were obtained from each participant and reconstructed using a high resolution algorithm in overlapping 5 mm increments. All images ...

Once the fibers are in the lungs, they can become stuck in healthy lung tissue, irritating it and causing the tissue to become inflamed. Over several years and even decades, this damage may cause pain ...

Following the story of ancient cosmic light In order for the team to build this so-called CT scan of the universe, they needed to turn to light that has existed almost as long as the cosmos itself ...

The study will use the e-ILD platform to process high-resolution chest computed tomography (HRCT) images, analysing the scarring ... lung function decline and survival in IPF patients from a ...

People are living longer with lung cancer as new screening tools, such as lung computed tomography (CT) scans, are able to diagnose cancer at an earlier stage, and newer cancer treatments have been ...

Lung biopsy is a relatively frequently performed procedure with considerable benefit for patient management but it may, on rare occasions, result in the death of the patient. It is a multidisciplinary ...

Chest CT scans show a mosaic pattern ... in the bronchiole submucosa layer with continual external circular scarring. The fibrotic and destructive nature of this lesion is the defining characteristic.

Pulmonary fibrosis is a type of interstitial lung disease (ILD), a group of disorders marked by inflammation and scarring, or fibrosis, in the lungs. This scarring damages the epithelial cells that ...