THE cause of acute infections of the lower respiratory tract has been a matter of considerable speculation, especially of that group called primary atypical pneumonia or viral pneumonia. The present ...

Q: Are pneumonitis and pneumonia the same condition? A: Pneumonitis refers to inflammation of lung tissue. Pneumonia which is lung infection is a type of pneumonitis since the infection is associated ...

A new disease is sweeping the U.S. It is known as “pneumonitis,” “virus pneumonia” and a half-dozen other names. The Army, which has special reason to be worried, labels the disease “primary atypical ...

Pneumonitis is an inflammatory respiratory condition caused by acute or chronic exposure to irritating antigens in the environment. Because of the rarity of the condition, pneumonitis is often ...

Outcomes were evaluated among veterans treated for non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) from 2017 to 2020 with durvalumab, a PD-L1 inhibitor. Data remain mixed on the exact impact durvalumab-induced ...

Side effects associated with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination have been reported in many countries. Thrombocytopenia is not uncommon; however, pneumonitis induced by vaccination is ...

Lungs from mice infected with the agent of murine pneumonitis exhibit a decreased rate of oxygen consumption and an increased rate of anaerobic glycolysis. These changes in metabolism of mouse lung ...

Pneumonia is a disease that burdens the health care system with more than 1.2 million emergency room visits each year and more than 41,000 adult deaths in the United States. Worldwide, more than one ...

Aspiration pneumonia is a type of pneumonia caused by the accidental infiltration of food or other substances from the mouth or stomach into the lungs. The condition can be caused by bacteria that ...

Drug-related pneumonitis occurred among 18% of patients receiving osimertinib for advanced epidermal growth factor receptor mutation-positive non-small cell lung cancer, according to study results ...