Though typically associated with effects on the joints, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was found have a pulmonary effect in nearly 3 in 4 patients included in the retrospective, single-center study.

Clinicians working within the US healthcare system order CTs; it's just what we do, and we do it a lot. This isn't necessarily bad, but an inevitable by-product is the pandemic of incidental findings.

CT scans are used to diagnose, track, and screen for a variety of diseases. Even before the National Lung Screening Trial research team proved that an annual CT scan could reduce lung cancer mortality ...

In smokers without known interstitial lung disease (ILD), worsening pulmonary parenchymal abnormalities on chest CT were still associated with more severe acute respiratory disease (ARD) events, a ...

A solitary pulmonary nodule (SPN) is a single abnormality in the lung that is smaller than 3 cm in diameter. Generally, a pulmonary nodule must grow to at least 1 cm in diameter before it can be seen ...

ILAs in patients with COPD are associated with lower lung cancer incidence but higher prevalence of other cancers and heart failure. Patients with ILAs showed significantly lower fibrinogen and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers performed annual MRIs from the first year of life to age 4 years in 96 children with cystic fibrosis ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Individuals with more vs. less quantitative interstitial abnormality progression experienced more severe acute ...

Axial chest CT scans at (A) visit 1 and (B) visit 2 at the level of the takeoff of the right middle bronchus of a participant with 1.2 annual percentage quantitative interstitial abnormality ...

Visible on chest CT scans, post-COVID-19 residual lung abnormalities, which affect up to 50% of patients who have had an infection requiring hospitalization, may be associated with persistent or ...

A study of an unusual snapping turtle with one lung found shared characteristics with humans born with one lung who survive beyond infancy. New digital 3-D anatomical models made the detailed research ...