Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, USA Background: While acute lung injury (ALI) is among the most serious ...

Background The aetiology of acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD) is incompletely understood. Understanding the relationship between chronic bacterial airway infection and viral exposure may explain ...

Objective We assessed associations between physical activity and lung function, and its decline, in the prospective population-based European Community Respiratory Health Survey cohort.

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2 The Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa 920-8641, Japan 3 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, ...

Background Newborn bloodspot screening (NBS) for cystic fibrosis (CF) was introduced across the UK in 2007 but the impact on clinical outcomes and health inequalities for children with CF is unclear.

BACKGROUND The guidelines on control and prevention of tuberculosis in the United Kingdom have been reviewed and updated. METHODS A subcommittee was appointed by the Joint Tuberculosis Committee (JTC) ...

The National Aspergillosis Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK Correspondence to Dr Chris Kosmidis, ...

Background The natural history and time course of the onset of exacerbation events of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is incompletely understood. Methods A prospective cohort of 212 ...

4 Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine (CEMM), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Rationale We hypothesised that patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) can ...

Surgical repair of tricuspid atresia has been carried out in three patients; two of these operations have been successful. A new surgical procedure has been used which transmits the whole vena caval ...

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