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Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease is an international scientific Open Access journal of the Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri, Pavia, Italy, dedicated to the advancement of knowledge in all fields of cardiopulmonary medicine and rehabilitation. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease publishes original articles, new methodological approaches, reviews, opinions, editorials, position papers on all aspects of cardiac and pulmonary medicine and rehabilitation, and, in addition, provides a forum for the inter-exchange of information, experiences and views on all issues of the cardiology profession, including education. Accordingly, original contributions on nursing, exercise treatment, health psychology, occupational medicine, care of the elderly, health economics and other fields related to the treatment, management, rehabilitation and prevention of cardiac and respiratory disease are welcome.

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• Diagnostic yield of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration for isolated mediastinal lymphadenopathy in a tuberculosis-endemic region: first study from Northeast India

  John Muchahary, Vijay Noel Nongpiur, W. Valarie Lyngdoh, Pranjal Kalita, Evarisalin Marbaniang, Vandana Raphael, Neeta Gogoi, Yepeto Lohe

  https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2026.3811

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• Cost impact of culture reversion in extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Pakistan: a multi-center retrospective study

  Muhammad Abubakar, Rimsha Mukhtar, Matti Ullah, Mahnoor Irfan

  https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2026.3747

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• Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps: 64 pheno-endotypes for personalized therapy. Time to change the paradigm

  Matteo Gelardi

  https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2025.3645

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• Pentraxin-3 as a novel biomarker in predicting outcomes of nosocomial pneumonia: a prospective observational study

  Isha Garg, Nishant Kumar Chauhan, Harsh Vardhan, Shrimanjunath Sankanagoudar, Naveen Dutt, Gopal Durgeshwar, Hariharan Iyer, Nikhil Kothari, Ravisekhar Gadepalli, Deepak Kumar

  https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2025.3225

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• Contribution of small airway disease to dynamic hyperinflation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

  Cristiane Chaves Marcelino da Costa, Hebert Olímpio Júnior, Paulo Victor Leandro da Silva Pinto, Milena Alves da Silva, Laura Franco Pessoa, Laura Lima da Silva, Jannis Papathanasiou, Arthur de Sá Ferreira, Agnaldo José Lopes

  https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2025.3402

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• Performance of conventional laboratory tests and Xpert MTB/RIF in the diagnosis of tuberculosis

  Natalia Zaporojan, Ramona Hodișan, Andreea Atena Zaha, Claudiu Zaporojan, Dana Carmen Zaha

  https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2025.3394

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  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 98

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• Cardiac arrhythmia following acute myocardial infarction: a retrospective analysis of 27,648 hospitalized patients in a tertiary heart hospital

  Nidal Asaad, Ayman El-Menyar, Rajvir Singh, Betsy Varughese, Shahul Hameed Khan, Hajar AlBinali, Jassim Al Suwaidi

  https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2025.3286

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• Clinical features of respiratory syncytial virus and influenza infections in hospitalized adults across three Italian regions

  Tommaso Bigoni, Franco Alfano, Marta Vicentini, Maria João Fonseca, Elisa Turriani, Elisa Vian, Micaela Romagnoli, Massimiliano Beccaria, Luca Pontalto, Michele Schincaglia, Federico Baraldi, Alberto Papi

  https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2025.3410

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• Diagnostic yield and complications of thoracic ultrasound-guided biopsy performed by pulmonologists

  Rahul Kumar, Dipti Gothi, Nipun Malhotra, Umesh Chandra Ojha, Sunil Kumar, Anshul Jain, Mahismita Patro, Ramesh Pal

  https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2025.3406

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• Comparative study between ultrasound-guided closed pleural biopsy and thoracoscopic pleural biopsy in undiagnosed exudative pleural effusions

  Sreyas Sharma, Nitesh Gupta, Pranav Ish, Rajnish Kaushik, Neeraj Kumar Gupta, Tanmaya Talukdar, Rohit Kumar

  https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2025.3361

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• Willingness to pay for a tobacco-free life: a contingent valuation assessment

  Yogesh Kumar Jain, Pankaj Bhardwaj, Nitin Kumar Joshi, Manoj Kumar Gupta, Akhil Dhanesh Goel, Prem Prakash Sharma

  https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2024.3016

  1427

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  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 126

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• Aortic pseudoaneurysm with a fistula between the non-coronary sinus and right atrium: a case report

  Paolo Toritto, Elena Cescutti, Igor Vendramin, Michela Puppato, Massimo Imazio, Stefano De Carli, Olga Vriz

  https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2024.3039

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• Clinical and echocardiographic predictors of outcome in liver transplant patients

  Irene Landi, Suliman Alharbil, Abdullah Alfehaid, Sarah Aldosari, Abdalla Eltayeb A.A, Nadiah Alruwaili, Roberto Troisi, Domenico Galzerano, Mario Pirisi, Olga Vriz

  https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2024.2963

  1415

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• Spirometry findings of chronic lung disease in high-altitude residents of Ladakh (>11,000 feet above sea level)

  Sonam Spalgais, Siddharth Raj Yadav, Parul Mrigpuri, Raj Kumar

  https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2024.2937

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• Proportion of sleep-related breathing disorders and their association with echocardiographic parameters in stable patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a cross-sectional observational exploratory study

  Vipul Prakash, Arjun Kumar, Lokesh Kumar Saini, Barun Kumar, Girish Sindhwani, Prakhar Sharma, Ruchi Dua, Ravi Gupta, Mayank Mishra

  https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2024.2815

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• Prognostic value of the oxygenation index measured during mechanical ventilation and weaning. A retrospective cohort study

  Esra Eriş, Ayshan Mammadova, Ayşe Taşçı Kara, Aydın Atasoy, Zeynep Sena Solmaz, Gül Gürsel

  https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2024.2840

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