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Asthma Not Associated with Poorer Outcomes in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients

Massachusetts General Hospital researchers found that inpatients with COVID-19 who had asthma were less likely than COVID-19 inpatients without asthma to require ICU admission or mechanical ventilation and were not at increased risk of death.

Asthma, COVID-19, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology

Journal January 22, 2021

Discovering the Pathways That Lead to Allergic Asthma

Jehan Alladina, MD, and colleagues of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, are using an innovative in vivo research method to study allergic asthma pathogenesis.

Allergy, Asthma, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology

Article February 8, 2022

Differences in Measuring Endotoxin Explains Contradictory Results on Lung Health Effects

Molly Wolf, MD, and Peggy S. Lai, MD, MPH, of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, explain that common methods of quantifying microbial exposure have inherent limitations, which probably explain the contradictory evidence on whether microbial exposure harms lung health.

Asthma, Pulmonary and Critical Care

Journal February 23, 2021

Maximizing Clinical Utility of Pulmonary Optical Imaging

Massachusetts General Hospital researchers push the limits of pulmonary optical frequency domain imaging for in vivo diagnosis of lung cancer and assessment of asthmatic airways.

Asthma, Lung Cancer, Oncology, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Radiology, Thoracic Imaging

Article January 21, 2021

Endobronchial OCT Useful for Assessing Airway Remodeling and Function in Asthma

A minimally invasive technique, endobronchial optical coherence tomography, measured multiple important features of airway remodeling simultaneously and demonstrated the physiological relevance of even mild airway remodeling in asthma.

Asthma, Pulmonary and Critical Care

Journal February 3, 2020