New research has identified the mechanism by which air pollution damages the lungs’ self-cleaning system, leaving us ...

People diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea may face more than just poor sleep and tired mornings. A new study finds they ...

In vivo platelet activation and related pathways may be linked to small airways disease and pulmonary vascular changes in smokers.

More than 50% of patients who did not respond to biologic treatment had small airways disease. Patients with severe asthma and small airways disease did not respond as well to omalizumab treatment ...

These data suggest that small airway disease, as measured by physiological testing, is correlated with an increased risk of asthma symptoms and exacerbations. Reviewed by Ware Kuschner ...

However, researchers found that many of the post-COVID patients were experiencing a disease that caused air to be trapped in the small airways in the lungs, which is similar to what people with ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KWWL) - A new study from doctors at University of Iowa Health Care suggests that "long COVID" is causing small airways disease in some patients. "Patients on the inspiratory scan ...

Small airways disease was common in patients with persistent symptoms following COVID-19, independent of severity of initial infection, according to a single-center study published in Radiology.

Study: Quantitative Chest CT Assessment of Small Airways Disease in Post-Acute SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Image Credit: Dotted Yeti/Shutterstock Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the SARS ...

Researchers found that of 100 patients with "long COVID" symptoms, more than half had signs of small-airway disease on CT scans. And people who'd been mildly ill at home were just as affected as ...