News
7th World Bronchiectasis Conference
The 7th World Bronchiectasis Conference is being held in Dundee, Scotland, from July 4th – 6th 2024. The venue for the conference is – University ...
Read More →
7th World Bronchiectasis Conference
The 7th World Bronchiectasis Conference will be held in Dundee Scotland from July 4th – 6th 2024. Topics will include: Aetiology and Physiopathology (including inflammation, ...
Read More →
Strong Lungs website
A new website, called Strong Lungs, has been launched that is specifically designed for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults with bronchiectasis. The website, developed ...
Read More →
Medical management of bronchiectasis: more MDT would help
Medical management of bronchiectasis: more MDT would help Patients with bronchiectasis may be missing out on some aspects of best practice care, according to a ...
Read More →
Respiratory follow up for Aboriginal children
Respiratory follow-up to improve outcomes for Aboriginal children: twelve key steps. Pamela Laird et al. Open AccessPublished:August 05, 2021DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2021.100239 Aboriginal children have higher rates of ...
Read More →
Improving Aboriginal Children’s Lung Health
Free training module for paediatric respiratory disease Chronic respiratory disease is prevalent among Aboriginal children but most doctors never had the opportunity to learn about ...
Read More →
Bronchiectasis in the Northern Territory, Australia
Bronchiectasis among Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal patients in the regional and remote population of the Northern Territory of Australia Purpose: Chronic respiratory disorders are highly prevalent ...
Read More →
Neutrophil extracellular traps – bronchiectasis
Neutrophil extracellular traps, disease severity, and antibiotic response in bronchiectasis: an international, observational, multicohort study This research identifies, for the first time, neutrophil extracellular trap ...
Read More →
Improving Aboriginal Childrens Lung Health
Improving Aboriginal Childrens Lung Health – developed by the Research Education and Training program in Western Australia, is an electronic training module, endorsed by RACGP, ...
Read More →
Brensocatib reduces exacerbations in bronchiectasis: WILLOW study
A novel anti-inflammatory treatment for bronchiectasis that targets neutrophils has shown promising results in a phase 2 trial. In findings presented at ATS 2020 virtual meeting, ...
Read More →
Vitamin D Deficiency
Vitamin D deficiency is common in adults with bronchiectasis and may be linked to radiological findings indicative of poor lung function, a study reports. The study, “Vitamin D ...
Read More →
LFA Action Plan
Lung Foundation Australia have recently updated their bronchiectasis action plan. This can be downloaded from: LFA Bronchiectasis Action Plan
Read More →
COVID 19 Resources from LFA
Lung Foundation Australia have excellent COVID 19 resources on their website collated from information provided by the Australian Government Department of Health and leading respiratory ...
Read More →
COVID-19 and Bronchiectasis
Interview with Infectious diseases expert, Prof James Chalmers. Patient: I am a patient with bronchiectasis. Am I at more risk of getting COVID-19 than somebody ...
Read More →
Epidemiology of bronchiectasis in the UK: Findings from the British lung foundation’s ‘Respiratory health of the nation’ projec
A recent paper in Respiratory Medicine has shown that the prevalence and incidence of bronchiectasis in the UK is increasing, with a 3% increase in ...
Read More →
Six ways that bronchiectasis treatment is at odds with guidelines
Results from the Australian Bronchiectasis Registry (ABR) show a gap between guideline recommendations and real-world treatment of bronchiectasis, even in tertiary centres. Data from 589 ...
Read More →
Respiratory physiotherapy in the bronchiectasis guidelines: is there a loud voice we are yet to hear?
Bronchiectasis is a chronic respiratory disease of airway dilatation, where patients typically suffer from respiratory infections, fatigue, sputum, cough, dyspnoea and poor quality of life ...
Read More →
Australian adults with bronchiectasis: The first report from the Australian Bronchiectasis Registry
The Australian Bronchiectasis Registry (ABR), established in 2015, aims to evaluate clinical phenotypes of Australians with bronchiectasis. Their first report, published in Respiratory Medicine (Australian ...
Read More →
Updated British Thoracic Society guidelines
The British Thoracic Society have updated their recommendations and clinical practice points in January 2019. Key points included are related to imaging, in whom a ...
Read More →
Updated Spanish guidelines on the treatment of bronchiectasis in adults
After publishing the first guidelines in the world on the diagnosis and management of bronchiectasis back in 2008, the Spanish Society of Pulmonology (SEPAR) have ...
Read More →
Vitamin D and bronchiectasis severity
Vitamin D is a key molecule known to be involved in inflammation and immune responses so a team of Italian researchers sought to investigate whether ...
Read More →
New Antibiotic Formulation Better at Controlling Infections in Bronchiectasis
Inhaled antibiotics have been proposed as efficient treatments to reduce bacterial infections in bronchiectasis patients. Now researchers have shown that a new formulation of antibiotics using nanoparticles, called nanoplex, ...
Read More →
ERS Monograph: Bronchiectasis
The latest European Respiratory Society Monograph: Bronchiectasis is now available! A team of world recognised experts in bronchiectasis have contributed to this monograph, covering topics ...
Read More →
3rd World Bronchiectasis Conference
The 3rd World Bronchiectasis conference was held in July 2018 in Georgetown, Washington DC. With a mix of world class presenters, it provided a comprehensive ...
Read More →
