Introduction Acute exacerbation of interstitial lung disease (AE-ILD) often results in death and poses significant challenges ...

Background Whether inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) reduce major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) in people with chronic ...

Associations of pulmonary microvascular blood volume with per cent emphysema and CT emphysema subtypes in the community: the MESA Lung study ...

BACKGROUND The guidelines on chemotherapy and management of tuberculosis in the United Kingdom have been reviewed and updated. METHODS A subcommittee was appointed by the Joint Tuberculosis Committee ...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes improve the health of patients disabled by lung disease but their cost effectiveness is unproved. We undertook a cost/utility analysis in conjunction ...

2 Institute of Respiratory Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia 3 South Western Sydney Clinical School, University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia Background: Sahaja Yoga is a traditional ...

Departments of Respiratory Medicine and Immunology, Western Infirmary, Glasgow G11 6NT, UK Correspondence to: Professor N C Thomson, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Western Infirmary, Glasgow G11 ...

Academic Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew's and Royal London Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and London Chest Hospital, London, UK Dr J A Wedzicha, Academic Respiratory Medicine, Dominion House, ...

1 Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, and the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, ...

1 Department of Paediatrics/Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus Medical Centre/Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of ...

Background: Quadriceps weakness and loss of muscle mass predict mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It was hypothesised that a reduced quadriceps cross-sectional area could be ...

Institute of Pulmonology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel Correspondence to: Dr N Berkman Institute of Pulmonology, Hadassah University Hospital, POB 12000, Jerusalem, ...