Pulmonology Advisor Contributing Writer

Surgical lung biopsies that are performed via video-assisted thoracic surgery are safe for obtaining histopathologic tissue for select patients.

Long-term treatment of oral corticosteroid (OCS)-dependent asthma with dupilumab has shown efficacy in weaning off OCS while improving lung function.

Patients with lung cancer and poor pulmonary function at diagnosis have worse rates of overall survival.

Researchers evaluated the efficacy of dupilumab for chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis in aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease.

Children with asthma and atopic dermatitis experience worse sleep and lung function outcomes compared with children with asthma alone.

Treatment with 300 mg lanadelumab every 2 weeks significantly reduced monthly hereditary angioedema attack rates compared with the 3-month historic baseline.

Although women are more likely than men to experience more severe asthma, they respond similarly to benralizumab therapy.

Exposure to several antibiotics during pregnancy may be linked to the development of atopic dermatitis in offspring within the first 24 months of life.

Epinephrine is more often prescribed for venom allergy and idiopathic anaphylaxis than for food allergy despite its potential as a life-saving drug for allergic reactions.

GATA3 group 2 innate lymphoid cells may play a novel role in the pathogenesis of sputum eosinophilia in COPD.