“International Congress of Airway & Interstitial Lung Diseases” took place on November 14-16, 2018, in Pardisan Hotel,Mashhad,Iran. Hosted in our home city of Mashhad, the second largest city, in the North East of Iran. It is famous for the holy shrine of Imam Reza as well as Toos,the residence of Ferdowsi, the great Persian poet. The congress scientific program presented the best in science an...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW After briefly discussing several ways to approach airway involvement in interstitial lung diseases - by diagnostic methodologies used to assess it, considering different topographical involvement, related to its presence in the diffuse lung diseases with higher prevalence, or from a causal point of view - the author describes in more detail, taking into account recent literatu...

background: in many cases of ild (interstitial lung disease), overlap diagnosis is considered. here, a few cases with diagnosis of a variety of ilds, where eventual open lung biopsy has been performed are selected. reference will be made to reliable sources to show that nsip can still be a variant of uip (usual interstitial pneumonia) with better treatment response and prognosis. case presentat...

Dendritic cells (DCs) significantly contribute to the pathology of several mouse lung disease models. However, little is known of the contribution of DCs to human lung diseases. In this study, we examined infiltration with BDCA1⁺ DCs of human lungs in patients with interstitial lung diseases or asthma. Using flow cytometry, we found that these DCs increased by 5∼6 fold in the lungs of patients ...

Dear Colleagues,   As Editor-In-Chief of Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine (JCTM), it is my pleasure to introduce this official quarterly publication of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, which is an international, peer-reviewed, and English language journal. Our aim is to publish high quality integrating clinical and experimental research in the following fields: Respiratory medici...

Interstitial lung diseases are a heterogeneous group of disorders that affect, to a greater or lesser degree, the alveolus, peripheral airway, and septal interstitium. Functional assessment in patients suspected of having an interstitial lung disease has implications for diagnosis and makes it possible to objectively analyze both response to treatment and prognosis. Recently the clinical value ...

results in total, 261 patients (119 sarcoidosis and 142 non-sarcoidosis ilds) were enrolled. the median (interquartile range) bal cd4/cd8 ratio and lymphocyte fraction were significantly higher in sarcoidosis than in non-sarcoidosis ilds: 3.88 (3.76) versus 0.88 (1.01), respectively, and 20.6 (28.3) versus 6.0 (13.7), respectively. t cell receptor γ delta, cd16+56+, cd103+, cd8+103+, and cd3+16...

Anti-tumor necrosis factor inhibitors are increasingly being recommended to treat and control a wide range of diseases, including Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid, psoriatic arthritis. Serious pulmonary consequences, ranging from infectious disease edema, airway involvement, even interstitial lung well-known multisystemic side effects. Interstitial is but uncommon condition. This...

Ultrasound (US) is an ideal diagnostic tool for paediatric patients owning to its high spatial and temporal resolution, real-time imaging, lack of ionizing radiation bedside availability. In the current World Federation Societies Ultra-sound in Medicine Biology (WFUMB) paper series so far (part I) topic has been introduced technical require-ments explained. present use US lung analysed. Lung di...