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 ...

Introduction Cilia are critically important in the mucociliary clearance of the airways. This study explores the long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 on cilial function and regeneration. Aim We aimed to ...

Title: Evidence of Shared Decision Making in a COPD education and supported self-management group setting. Authors: Jen Tomkinson, Advanced Respiratory Physiotherapist, Specialist Services (Long Term ...

Background Inhaled mannitol provokes bronchoconstriction via mediators released during osmotic degranulation of inflammatory cells, and, hence represents a useful diagnostic test for asthma and model ...

BACKGROUND Since the last British study of the microbial aetiology of community acquired pneumonia (CAP) about 20 years ago, new organisms have been identified (for example, Chlamydia pneumoniae), new ...

These guidelines have been replaced by British Guideline on the Management of Asthma. A national clinical guideline. Superseded By 2012 Revision Of 2008 Guideline: British Guideline on the Management ...

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

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, ...

BACKGROUND Two recent reviews have assessed the effect of parental smoking on respiratory disease in children. METHODS The results of the systematic quantitative review published as a series inThorax ...

Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA Professor Talmadge E King Jr, Department of Medicine, UCSF, 1001 Potrero Avenue, Room 5H22, San Francisco, California ...