The term asthma chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) overlap (ACO) has been popularized to describe people who simultaneously have features of both diseases. Analysis of the basis of disease classification…
Evaluating symptoms is a central part of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) assessment system as suggested by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD). Considering the pros…
Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) was the first genetic risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) described. In the more than 50 years since its description, the disease continues to provide…
Although smoking results in lung pathology in many, still not all smokers develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Roughly a quarter of patients with COPD have never smoked. An understanding…
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affects about 300 million people worldwide, resulting in approximately 64 million disability-adjusted life years. Household air pollution affects almost 3 billion people worldwide and is…
Acute Artery Occlusion During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in a Patient With an Anomalous Origin of the Left Circumflex Coronary Artery Juan Gabriel Acosta-Vélez, MD Bruno García del Blanco, MD Josep Guindo, MD…
A Rare Case of Anomalous Original Left Circumflex Artery Stenosis After Artificial Mitral Valve Replacement Qing Dai, MD Jie Song, MD Jian He, MD Biao Xu, MD A 72-year-old woman was admitted because of…
A Magic Port-A-Cath Ming-Chih Lin, MD, PhD Te-Kau Chang, MD Yun-Ching Fu, MD, PhD Sheng-Ling Jan, MD A 7-year-old boy with Burkitt lymphoma was referred by pediatric oncologists for severe chest pain when flushing…
Acute Stent Thrombosis: Technical Complication or Inadequate Antithrombotic Therapy? An Optical Coherence Tomography Study Sammy Elmariah, MD, MPH Ik-Kyung Jang, MD, PhD A 68-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with non–ST-segment…
A Dual-Snare Percutaneous Retrieval of Venous Stent Embolization to the Right Side of the Heart Ajay K. Sharma, MD Sarju Ganatra, MD James Hansen, MD Neil Yager, DO Thomas Piemonte, MD Gautam Gadey, MD Michael S. Levy,…
