Literature Archives

Highlights the diagnostic utility of BAL in the multidisciplinary management of ILD, reinforcing the IP role in tissue and fluid acquisition.

Provides molecular insight into pleural space infection, which may eventually inform decision-making for pleural drainage or fibrinolytic therapy.

Because benign nodes showed significant size variation across stations (P < 0.001), particularly between stations 4R or 4L versus 7, clinicians should recognize that uniform size cutoffs for EBUS-TBNA may not be optimal across mediastinal stations.

For interventional pulmonologists, treatment strategies significantly correlate with etiology, with acquired stenosis primarily managed by flexible bronchoscopic intervention at 94.1 percent and all groups exhibiting high overall efficacy rates between 80.4 percent and 94.1 percent.

Explores a potential therapeutic role for bronchoscopic lavage beyond diagnostic sampling in asthma management.

While pre-procedure 6-minute walk distance did not significantly affect FEV1 responder rates or St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire improvements at 12 months, patients in the low functional capacity group experienced the greatest average increase in 6-minute walk distance (53.3 meters), whereas the high functionality group actually showed a decrease (53.2 meters).

Understanding tumor-related ventilation loss is relevant for IP clinicians performing bronchoscopic lung volume reduction or planning diagnostic biopsies in compromised lungs.

Pulmonary endoscopies generate substantial medical waste averaging nearly 1.5 kg per patient, which can be significantly reduced by 61.5% using reusable protective gowns (P < 0.001) while avoiding disposable bronchoscopes that increase the waste burden.

Highlights the current research gaps in LVR, signaling future clinical trial focus areas for interventional pulmonologists.

Patients diagnosed via cryobiopsy showed significantly better overall survival than those diagnosed via surgical lung biopsy (HR 0.436, 95% CI 0.197 to 0.963, P = 0.035), likely due to insufficient subpleural sampling. Therefore, cryobiopsy should be used as a complementary tool to surgical biopsy, and its limitations must be carefully addressed during multidisciplinary discussions.

Relevant for IP practitioners performing BAL and protected specimen brush procedures in the ICU.

Highlights the importance of multidisciplinary management for incidental findings detected during lung cancer screening, which often leads to IP referral for diagnostic biopsy.