Since the outbreak in Wuhan city in December 2019, there has been a surge of newly diagnosed cases with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) globally. The total number has reached to 101 927 laboratory-confirmed cases as of March 8th, 2020.

Acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD) or “COPD crises”, are crucial events in the natural course of COPD. Although they can occur at any severity stage, their impact increases as patients develop more severe airflow limitation.

Menteri Kesehatan RI, Terawan Agus Putranto, awal Maret lalu mengatakan bahwa COVID-19 adalah penyakit yang bersifat self-limiting disease.

Di tengah mewabahnya infeksi virus Corona (COVID-19), muncul beragam istilah yang berkaitan dengan penyakit ini, mulai dari social distancing, lock down, hingga PDP. Supaya tidak bingung, yuk, simak artikel ini untuk mengetahui arti dari istilah-istilah tersebut.

Diabetes is associated with failure of tuberculosis (TB) treatment, but it is unclear whether this is related to genotypic drug resistance of the infecting mycobacteria.

TIDAK perlu panik. Tak perlu pula dipusingkan istilah self distancing, self isolation, self quarantine atau bahkan lockdown Karena, kalau mengikuti istilah, ada banyak lagi sebutan.

Patients with bronchiectasis have a less active lifestyle than healthy peers, but the association with hospital admission has not been explored.

The first human trial of a vaccine to protect against pandemic coronavirus has started in the US.

Pada Sabtu (14/3/2020), jumlah kasus yang dikonfirmasi mencapai 96 kasus, yaitu bertambah 27 kasus dibanding hari sebelumnya. Pemerintah Indonesia kembali mengumumkan 21 kasus baru virus corona Covid-19 pada Minggu (15/3/2020).

High sensitive cardiac troponins are important predictive cardiovascular biomarkers for all-cause mortality in COPD. Underlying causes to elevated troponin are still unclear, but elevated troponin might identify COPD phenotypes suitable for CVD prevention.