Spontaneous pneumothorax following chest irradiation is thought to occur in patients with radiation fibrosis several months or more after the completion of therapy. In the four patients presented herein, spontaneous pneumothorax was seen during or immediately after therapeutic radiation of lung cancer. All patients had bronchoscopic findings of bronchial obstruction by the tumor before treatmen...

Asthma is a condition characterized by recurrent breathlessness, cough or wheeze caused by variable or intermittent narrowing of intrapulmonary airways [ 13. All asthmatic individuals have hyper-responsive intrathoracic airways and because of this most experience acute attacks of bronchoconstriction at times. A great deal of work has been done to understand this hyperresponsive state of the air...

Expandable metallic stents seemed to be a good method in tuberculous bronchial stenosis that does not respond to medical therapy. But there was no long-term follow-up study after stents insertion in tuberculous bronchial stenosis. We report a case of obstruction after successful Gianturco metallic stents insertion due to tuberculous bronchial stenosis.

Asthma in children up to 5 years of age is a disease that diagnosed on the basis clinical symptoms bronchial obstruction, such as: wheezing, cough and shortness breath variable intensity duration, clinically proven reversibility obstruction improvement after chronic use inhaled glucocorticosteroids lack grounds for suspecting causes other than asthma. Treatment childhood asthma graded therapy w...

A study was conducted in beauty parlor workers of Lucknow, India, to assess the prevalence of respiratory morbidity and lung function abnormalities compared to their control subjects belonging to the same socioeconomic status and ethnic group, having never been exposed to the workplace of beauty parlor and having not used any cosmetics. Respiratory morbidity and bronchial obstruction based on P...