Egyptian Journal of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis

17/09/2025

https://journals.lww.com/ecdt/fulltext/2025/07000/toilet_bronchoscopy_in_respiratory_icu__a.5.aspx

06/07/2025

A Masterpiece ✨ in Interventional Bronchoscopy done in AI Shams University

https://journals.lww.com/ecdt/fulltext/2025/07000/assessment_of_navigation_bronchoscopy_with_rapid.6.aspx

23/06/2025

ILD and OSA

https://journals.lww.com/ecdt/fulltext/2025/04000/predictors_of_subclinical_interstitial_lung.6.aspx

21/06/2025

https://journals.lww.com/ecdt/fulltext/2025/04000/role_of_rapid_score_and_adjusted_rapid_score_in.8.aspx

Role of RAPID score and adjusted RAPID score in management of infected pleural effusion

21/06/2025

https://journals.lww.com/ecdt/fulltext/2025/04000/role_of_rapid_score_and_adjusted_rapid_score_in.8.aspx

08/06/2025

https://journals.lww.com/ecdt/fulltext/2025/04000/the_possibility_of_developing_chronic_obstructive.1.aspx

se (COPD) has drawn growing attention. The link between COPD and active smoking is widely known, but research into how passive smoking contributes to the beginning of COPD is still underway. According to epidemiology, passive smoking exposure and poor respiratory function correlate with decreased lu...

19/03/2025

A MASTERPIECE IN PHTN

EGYPTIAN PULMONARY HYPERTENSION EXPERIENCE

guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of PAH by combining available evidence from the Egyptian practice according to Egyptian experts’ opinions. Methods A three-step modified Delphi method was adopted to develop the present consensus, which consisted of two rounds of voting and in-between vir...

04/03/2025

https://journals.lww.com/ecdt/fulltext/2025/01000/spectral_doppler_in_mediastinal_lymphadenopathy.7.aspx

and methods The study was conducted at the Pulmonology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University and it was conducted between February 2023 and March 2024. The study was performed on 32 patients who had been referred to the Chest Department, Kasr El-Aini Hospital for clinical assessment; all...

03/02/2025

Relations between the standardized uptake value of 18F-FDG-PET/CT and demographic, clinical, pathological, and radiological factors in lung cancer

cal factors, histopathology, and SUVmax in patients of bronchogenic carcinoma. Patients and methods The study was a prospective cross-sectional study on 47 confirmed lung cancer patients admitted to the Chest Department of Ain Shams University Hospital from April 2022 to May 2023. Demographic data,....

23/12/2024

Diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis in the era of thoracoscopic surgery

the search for a cheaper alternative. Patients and methods A prospective study was done from January 2019 to January 2023 to evaluate diagnostic methods for patients with exudative pleural effusions (PE) of unknown etiologies. The demographic, radiological, procedural, and histological data of exuda...

14/11/2024

https://journals.lww.com/ecdt/fulltext/2024/10000/contribution_of_quantiferon_tb_gold_in_tube_to_the.9.aspx

TB infection. Our objective is to study the performance and clinical relevance of QuantiFERON TB Gold in Tube (QFT-GIT) in the diagnosis of TB pleurisy in Algeria. Patients and methods QFT-GIT was tested in vitro in serum and pleural fluid on a prospective recruitment of 158 immunocompetent patients...

26/10/2024

https://journals.lww.com/ecdt/fulltext/2024/10000/assessment_of_endobronchial_chemotherapy_in.5.aspx

y of endobronchial intratumoral injection of 5-Fluorouracil as a chemotherapeutic agent in palliative care for patients with inoperable nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Patients and methods A total of 30 patients diagnosed as inoperable advanced-stage NSCLC were included into this randomized prosp...