title: [Advances and challenger in the diagnosis and medical treatment of respiratory diseases].
abstract: In the present article, we reviewed the most recent advances in the medical area and areas that contributed for the advances of medical science. We relate the advances in the areas of Biology and the Genetics, Bioengineering and Telecommunications among others. We also reviewed the most relevant advances in some areas of the more frequent pathologies of the respiratory tract, particularly those that urgently need new progress in terms of new techniques of diagnosis, therapeutics or prevention measures in the next years.
authors.affiliation: Professora Catedrática de Medicina (Pneumologia) da Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Chefe de Serviço de Pneumologia e Directora do Serviço de Pneumologia 3 do Hospital de Pulido Valente SA, Lisboa.
authors.forename: Maria João
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Marques Gomes
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012120:Respiration Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000628:therapy*