Respirar is a free and open access electronic scientific journal. It is an official publication of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Tórax (ALAT). Its objective is to disseminate the scientific work carried out in Latin America in the area of respiratory pathology. This journal is aimed at health professionals.

Quarterly: March, June, September and December.

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EDITORS IN CHIEF


Dr. Carlos Luna
(Hospital de Clínicas, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9288-096X


Dr. Francisco Arancibia
(Instituto Nacional del Tórax, Santiago de Chile, Chile) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5429-5420


ASSISTANT EDITORS


Dr. Rogelio Pérez-Padilla
(Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosio Villegas, Ciudad de México, México) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1132-5308

Dr. Adrián Rendón


(Universidad Autónoma de Nueva León, Hospital Universitario de Monterrey, Nueva León, México) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8973-4024

Dr. Gustavo Zabert

(Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas (FACIMED), Rio Negro, Argentina) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9937-4464

Editorial Secretary: Lic. Mercedes Cavallero
Edition: Daniel Pereira

Vol. 17 No. 1 (2025): March

Published: 2025-03-21

RESPIRAR Journal Indexed in SciELO

Francisco Arancibia, Carlos Marcelo Luna

3-4

Clinical Practice Guideline of Severe Asthma, ALAT 2024

Ignacio Zabert, Ana María Stok, Carmen Cano, Patricia Fernández, Felicia Montero, Natalia García, Carlos Celis , Agustín Acuña Izcaray, Marcia Pizzichini, Juan Carlos Vázquez, Miguel Angel Bergna, Abraham Alí Munive, Sergio Zunino, Renato Casanova, María Parada, Martín Maillo, Ricardo Figueiredo, Lorena Noriega , Marcos Hernández, Miguel Antúnez, María Alfaro Coto, Lilian Ballini, Fernando Morett Vera, Audrey Piotrostanalzki, Isabel Villanueva, Lucía Fernández, Erika López Estrada, Paulina Trujillo, Oscar Benítez, Gabriel García

7-30

Validation of the Decaf Scale to Predict in-Hospital Mortality in Acute Exacerbations of Copd in a Cohort in a South American Hospital

Jorge Hernández, Luis Andrés Dulcey Sarmiento, Jaime Alberto Gómez Ayala, Juan Sebastián Therán León, Valentina Ochoa Castellanos

31-38

EQ-5D as a Tool to Evaluate Quality of Life of Rib Osteosynthesis

Miguel Alejandro Kees, Gregorio Kohan, Gonzalo Fernandez Sily, Pedro Antonio Bollea, Ivanna Giselle Chalfoun, Hector Eduardo Roldan, Juan Jose Anastasio

39-52

Plastic Bronchitis of Multifactorial Origin in an Adult

Miguel Osejo Betancourt, Ossner Omar Bustamante Garcia

76-81

Fibrofolliculomas and Cystic Lung Disease: Case Report

Juliana Pineda-Ortega, Alvaro Cordero Solarte, Javier Iván Lasso Apraez

82-86

Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis: a Case Report

Julia Zoucas Nunes de Souza, Isabel Lopes , Marina Zoucas

87-92

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