Special Issue "An Update on the Diagnostic, Predictive and Prognostic Biomarkers of Respiratory Diseases"
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Pulmonology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2023 | Viewed by 14766
Special Issue Editors
Interests: asthma; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; exacerbation; prognosis; biomarkers; exhaled breath; diagnosis; pulmonary function testing
Interests: idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; hypersensitivity pneumonitis; interstitial lung disease; sarcoidosis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Respiratory diseases have become the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Many chronic respiratory disorders have a progressive course, leading to irreversible changes in the respiratory system structure. Moreover, differentiation between specific clinical entities is frequently problematic, and in many patients, different disease states may overlap. The respiratory system may be only one of several body organs involved in systemic nature diseases. Phenotyping the disease, identifying suitable candidates for specific therapies and identiyfing indviduals at risk of exacerbation or poor outcome are often challenging, despite the real progress in imaging, laboratory, and other diagnostic techniques. Biomarkers have attracted researchers in the field of respiratory medicine for decades, but only a few of them have entered everyday practice and became standard procedures so far. Exhaled nitric oxide as an aid in diagnosing and monitoring asthma and the effect of treatment, blood eosinopils for treatment with anti-IL-5 in severe asthma or the recently proposed role on blood eosinophils in the ICS treatment decision-making in COPD patients are such examples. There are still many doubts about prognostic markers of lung fibrosis. Many unresolved issues considering sensitivity and specificity are unresolved. A tempting idea of using exhaled breath (condensate, volatile organic compounds, particles in exhaled air) for measurements of different substances with diagnostic or prognostic potential has been explored for many years, but results are frequently ambiguous. Researchers face many problems, and many questions are still unanswered, but the advantages of using biomarkers in diagnosis, differentiation, activity assessment, and prognostication in respiratory diseases could not be overestimated. The work in this field should go on. This special issue of JCM, devoted to an update of biomarkers’ role in phenotyping, treatment response and prognosis in respiratory diseases, may help organize and summarize this vast and heterogeneous knowledge with the hope of changing perspectives.
Prof. Andrei Malinovschi
Prof. Wojciech Piotrowski
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- respiratory diseases
- biomarkers
- diagnosis
- prognosis
- activity monitoring
- phenotypes
- treatment response
- exhaled breath