It can be challenging for healthcare professionals (HCPs) to prescribe inhaled therapy for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) because of the multiple individual and combi...

Pulmonary hypertension, frequently complicating the course of patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease, is associated with significantly increased morbidity and mortality. The availabili...

Reverse triggering dyssynchrony is a frequent phenomenon recently recognized in sedated critically ill patients under controlled ventilation. It occurs in at least 30–55% of these patients and o...

Patients with interstitial lung diseases (ILD) often have hypoxemia at rest and/or with exertion, for which supplemental oxygen is commonly prescribed. The number of patients with ILD who requir...

The definition of pulmonary hypertension (PH) has been revised recently, with the mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) threshold (assessed by right heart catheterization) reduced from ≥25mm Hg ...

In study after study, marijuana use has been found to be associated with increased forced vital capacity (FVC). This is puzzling, because marijuana is commonly consumed by inhalation of its smok...