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Bacterial respiratory tract infection normally occurs in infants requiring early intubation in the emergency department (ED) for viral bronchiolitis, according to a study. However, respiratory bacterial codetection appears to shorten the duration of mechanical ventilation (MV) and length of stay (LOS) of these patients in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Use of the lung immune prognostic index (LIPI) can predict the survival of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and may even help in IPF management, suggests a recent study.

SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with significantly higher incidence of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) complications and addition of 5-alpha reductase inhibitor (5ARI) for combination therapy in male patients with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) on alpha-1 adrenoreceptor blocker (AARB) monotherapy, a territory-wide retrospective cohort study in Hong Kong has shown.

Palliative-intent radiation was performed more frequently in patients with advanced nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and cachexia than those without weight loss. Unfortunately, tumour-directed therapy, whether in a curative or a palliative approach, proves inadequate in improving cachexia patient survival across all stages of the disease.

Treatment with sitravatinib plus nivolumab (sitra + nivo) results in numerically longer median overall survival (OS), albeit statistically nonsignificant, in patients with advanced nonsquamous nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) compared with docetaxel, a study has shown.