Background Critical care medicine has historically relied on syndromic diagnoses such as sepsis, acute respiratory distress ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science developed in the 1950s to imitate the human ability for solving ...

Background Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a rapidly evolving condition. Dynamic assessments using patient trajectories may provide novel insights into disease heterogeneity. The primary ...

Bronchiectasis, a clinical syndrome of recurrent cough and sputum production, can be diagnosed when high-resolution CT (HRCT) scans show pathological airway enlargement. Obstructive airway diseases, ...

Objectives Infliximab, an anti-TNF agent, is used to treat sarcoidosis that does not respond to corticosteroids or second-line agents. The efficacy of other anti-TNF agents, non-TNF biologics and ...

Background Relapse continues to place significant burden on patients and tuberculosis (TB) programmes worldwide. We aimed to determine clinical and microbiological factors associated with relapse in ...

AI-powered evaluation of lung function for diagnosis of interstitial lung disease ...

Correspondence to Inge A H van den Berk, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam UMC Location AMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands; i.a.vandenberk{at}amsterdamumc.nl Background Chest CT ...

Introduction Chest binders are garments used for compression of breast tissue by transgender individuals. Deleterious consequences of binder reported include shortness of breath with associated ...

Correspondence to Dr Audrey Winter, Department of Radiological Sciences, Medical Imaging Informatics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; audrey.winter89{at}gmail.com Introduction We ...

Background: There is little previous information of the effects of size fractioned particulate air pollution and source specific fine particles (PM 2.5; <2.5 μm) on asthma and chronic obstructive ...

Correspondence to Professor Adam T Hill, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland EH16 4SA, UK; adam.hill318{at}nhs.net The new British Thoracic Society ...