Lung ultrasound can efficiently diagnose volume overload in hemodialysis patients Hina Zahid5 Jun 2021 10:00 AM ISTAn abbreviated lung ultrasound protocol can efficiently determine presence of lung congestion in patients receiving hemodialysis and help expedite...
Hyperconcentration of lung protein may predict COPD risk: Lancet Hina Zahid5 Jun 2021 9:58 AM ISTMUC5AC is found at elevated levels in smokers who had not yet developed COPD but whose lung function wound up decreasing over the course of the...
Tubercular tracheobronchial stenosis: When is surgery indicated? Dr Sravan Kumar5 Jun 2021 9:52 AM ISTTracheobronchial stenosis is troublesome long-term sequelae of tracheobronchial tuberculosis (TBTB) which occurs due to fibrosis and consequent...
Previous COVID-19 infection lowers infection risk for up to 10 months: Lancet Hina Zahid5 Jun 2021 9:38 AM ISTThe study fiound that residents with a previous infection were 85% less likely to be infected during this four-month period than residents who had...
Lung ultrasound with deep learning models may help stratify COVID-19 risk: Study Medha Baranwal4 Jun 2021 9:00 AM ISTItaly: Deep-learning (DL) models can be used to automatically stratify patients on lung ultrasound(LUS) as having an either low or high risk of...
High dose methylprednisolone bests dexamethasone for hospitalized COVID-19 patients: Study Medha Baranwal3 Jun 2021 9:30 AM ISTColombia: Methylprednisolone is better than dexamethasone for the treatment of hospitalized patients with severe Covid-19 Pneumonia, according to a...
WHO Issues Emergency Use Listing for Sinovac Vaccine MD Bureau2 Jun 2021 7:36 PM ISTThe World Health Organization (WHO) have recently validated the Sinovac-CoronaVac, a COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use and issued interim policy...
A rare case of Platypnoea-Orthodeoxia syndrome in COVID-19: BMJ report Dr Sravan Kumar2 Jun 2021 9:00 AM ISTClinical manifestations of COVID-19 which is caused by SARS-CoV2 range from mild upper respiratory symptoms to life-threatening severe acute...
Colchicine beneficial in COVID-19 RTCPR confirmed cases, Lancet study dr. Abhimanyu Uppal2 Jun 2021 9:00 AM ISTEvidence suggests a role for excessive inflammation in COVID-19 complications. Colchicine, an oral anti-inflammatory medication is hypothesized to...
Osimertinib improves survival in cases of lung cancer metastasis, finds study has Dr. Nandita Mohan1 Jun 2021 9:00 AM ISTResearch reveals that patients with T790M-positive, non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and multiple central nervous system (CNS) metastases after...
Corticosteroids in COVID-19: Answering all ifs, whens and buts for physicians. dr. Abhimanyu Uppal31 May 2021 12:45 PM ISTCOVID-19 infection has spread throughout the world as a rampant pandemic over the past one and half years. With no specific antiviral agent at hand,...
Tezepelumab significantly reduced asthma exacerbations: Phase 3 NAVIGATOR trial Hina Zahid31 May 2021 8:00 AM ISTATS 2021, New York, NY - Results from the NAVIGATOR study of tezepelumab showed that the new biologic therapy significantly reduced exacerbations...
