Literature Archives

Slim EBUS with navigation bronchoscopy improves diagnostic access to challenging, distal peripheral lesions that standard, larger equipment cannot reach.

Provides actionable data on optimizing the administration protocol for fibrinolytic therapy in complicated parapneumonic effusions/empyema.

The LIONS PREY model demonstrated superior accuracy (AUC 0.94) in predicting malignancy for high-risk pulmonary lesions compared to the Herder and Brock models, supporting its clinical use for patients undergoing navigational bronchoscopy.

The randomized controlled trial involved 126 patients, finding that while using a second needle speeds up individual passes (56.2 vs. 82.1 seconds), it did not significantly reduce the overall total procedure time.

Provides technical insights into improving diagnostic yield for pleural procedures using advanced imaging guidance.

Essential reading for interpreting clinical trial data regarding the performance of new bronchoscopic diagnostic tools.

A negative EBUS is not a definitive "all-clear"—with a 10-15% upstaging rate, high-risk tumors still demand strict systematic sampling in the bronch suite and comprehensive lymph node dissection in the OR.

robotic-assisted bronchoscopic cryoablation for pulmonary nodules achieved 100% technical feasibility with a favorable safety profile.

Cryobiopsy demonstrated lower sensitivity (54.5%) for mycobacterial culture compared to forceps biopsy (62.7%) in diagnosing TB pleurisy. Consequently, cryobiopsy is not recommended as a replacement for standard forceps biopsy for this purpose.

Clinicians can confidently offer ELVR to patients across a wider range of BMI categories.

Essential reading for IP clinicians to understand changes in staging criteria that dictate biopsy and nodal sampling strategies.

If successful, this trial could establish the erector spinae plane block as a standard pre-procedural adjunct in the interventional pulmonology suite, shifting practice toward multimodal regional anesthesia. Because this is a study protocol, no numerical results, P values, or confidence intervals are yet available.