Diagnostic delay in bronchiectasis: an Italian perspective

ERJ Open Res. 2024 Mar 18;10(2):00713-2023. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00713-2023. eCollection 2024 Mar.

Carlo Chessari¹, Edoardo Simonetta², Francesco Amati^{2

3}, Mattia Nigro^{2

3}, Anna Stainer^{2

3}, Giovanni Sotgiu⁴, Mariangela Puci⁴, Andrea Gramegna^{5

6}, Francesco Blasi^{5

6}, Letizia Corinna Morlacchi^{5

6}, Agata Alba Maria Domenica Buscemi^{5

6}, Valentina Conio^{7

8}, Vincenzo Sanci^{7

8}, Angelo G Corsico^{7

8}, Paola Faverio^{9

10}, Weronika Michalak^{9

10}, Fabrizio Luppi^{9

10}, Claudia Crimi^{11

12}, Carlo Vancheri^{11

12}, Raffaele Campisi¹¹, Maria Rosaria Vulpi¹³, Giovanna Elisiana Carpagnano¹³, Marianna Cicchetti¹³, Kseniia Sekretna¹⁴, Nicola Scichilone¹, Salvatore Battaglia¹, Stefano Aliberti^{2

3}

¹ PROMISE Department, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
² IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Respiratory Unit, Milan, Italy.
³ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy.
⁴ Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Unit, Department of Medical, Surgical and Experimental Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
⁵ Respiratory Unit and Cystic Fibrosis Center, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
⁶ Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.
⁷ Respiratory Diseases Division, Cardiac, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, Pavia, Italy.
⁸ Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
⁹ School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
¹⁰ Respiratory Unit, Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo dei Tintori, Monza, Italy.
¹¹ Respiratory Medicine Unit, Policlinico "G. Rodolico-San Marco" University Hospital, Catania, Italy.
¹² Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
¹³ Respiratory Diseases Section, University Hospital Policlinico di Bari, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
¹⁴ Department of Occupational Diseases, Clinical Immunology and Clinical Pharmacology, Dnipro State Medical University, Dnipro, Ukraine.

Abstract

It takes ∼3.5 years to reach a diagnosis of bronchiectasis from onset of symptoms: the long patient's journey in Italy https://bit.ly/46XMWAz.