Long-term outcome of pulmonary involvement in patients with coronavirus disease 2019: The role of high-resolution computed tomography and functional status - A prospective single-center observational study.

Background: Since its first outbreak, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to a great deal of published literature highlighting the short-term determinants of morbidity and mortality. Recently, several studies have reported radiological and functional sequelae from 3 months to 1 year among hospitalized COVID-19 survivors; however, long-term (more than 1 year) respiratory consequences in this population remain to be evaluated.

Objective: To assess the long-term radiological and pulmonary function outcomes of patients with COVID-19 2 years after resolution of the initial infection.

Diagnostic value of bronchoscopy in sputum-negative pulmonary tuberculosis patients and its correlation with clinicoradiological features.

Context: Tuberculosis (TB) remains endemic in Saudi Arabia. Little local data have been reported on bronchoscopic evaluation of sputum-negative pulmonary TB patients, which poses a significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenge.

Aims: To determine the diagnostic value of bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and its correlation with clinical and radiological features in sputum-negative, culture-confirmed pulmonary TB patients.

The future of medical thoracoscopy in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Medical thoracoscopy (MT) has changed how we manage exudative pleural effusion. It is a minimally invasive procedure used as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool in pleural disease. Here, we report a case of a lymphocytic exudative pleural effusion that needed a pleural biopsy for diagnosis.

Survey of flexible bronchoscopy practice in adults in Saudi Arabia.

To assess current adherence to international guidelines for practitioners of bronchoscopy in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Saudi Arabia between December 2016 and March 2017. Pulmonologists, thoracic surgeons, and intensivists were invited to answer an emailed self-administered questionnaire survey seeking information on how they performed flexible bronchoscopy in adults.

The utility of ultrasound-guided thoracentesis and pleural biopsy in undiagnosed pleural exudates.

We assessed the utility of ultrasound to guide the selection of closed pleural biopsy technique and site and to assess the respective contributions of repeat thoracentesis and closed pleural biopsy in 100 consecutive patients with undiagnosed pleural exudates. Thoracentesis was more likely to be diagnostic in TB than malignancy (77.8% vs 31.