information about chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (copd)-related health resources allocation in china is very limited. the aim of the study was to explore the distribution of copd-related health resources allocation among different levels public hospitals (phs) in hunan province of central south china.we randomly collected data from 57 public hospitals (phs) at 3 different levels in huna...

T he major reasons fur participating in continuing medical education (CME) are to obtain new knowledge and skills, and to provide reassurance that present medical practice is still up to date.' The ideal educational offering to accomplish these goals should be directly relevant to patient care, convenient, inexpensive , practical, individually based, provide immediate benefit, and take a minimu...

conclusion there is still excessive unjustified concern of pte in less trained physicians leading to excessive diagnostic work-up. loyalty to the existing guideline for management of suspected pte in educational hospitals and supervision of attending physicians could prevent overuse of ctpa. results during a 6-month period, 82 patients who underwent ctpa were included. the prevalence of pte was...

BACKGROUND Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a devastating condition with a variable course. Not uncommonly, IPF patients are hospitalized for respiratory-related causes, including disease worsening. This study aimed to characterize the prevalence, and economic and health care burden of IPF. METHODS Retrospective insurance claims data collected yearly between January 1, 2009 and December...

BACKGROUND Expert management of tracheal intubation has become fundamental to the routine practice of pulmonary physicians who work in respiratory intensive care units (ICUs). In Italy, tracheal intubation is not included as part of the training in respiratory medicine, and pulmonary physicians are usually dissuaded from managing intubations. METHODS We prospectively studied the intubation su...

Mycobacterium abscessus is a rapid grower, can cause pulmonary infection and cutaneous infection. They are usually resistant to multiple antimicrobials. So challenging physicians for treatment. Here we report a rare case of caused by mimicking actinomycosis. Keywords: Actinomycosis cutaneous infection, Mycobacterium NTM.

The visually striking neurocutaneous findings of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) are well recognized and have been documented throughout scientific literature. While not uncommon, the pulmonary manifestations NF1 unknown to many physicians. Complications associated diffuse lung disease (NF-DLD) include hypertension, artery stenosis, subpleural cysts, spontaneous pneumothorax. We present a case 3...

Background : Tuberculosis is known as one of the main causes of mortality worldwide. 1.7 milliard people worldwide are infected with TB germs, there are 8 million new cases of TB annually, and three million deaths occur due to the disease in developing countries. Materials and Methods: This study included all the cases who had referred to all the health centers of Lorestan province with posi...

PURPOSE Pulmonary blastomycosis is an uncommon but serious fungal infection endemic in Wisconsin. Clinician awareness of the protean presentations of this disease may reduce diagnostic delay. This study addressed the diagnostic accuracy of physicians responding to case vignettes of pulmonary blastomycosis and the primary care differential diagnosis of this disease. METHODS Eight pulmonary bla...