Introduction Current bronchiectasis guidelines advise against the use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) except in patients with associated asthma, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) and/or ...

A 70-year-old woman, previously treated with triple-inhalation therapy for bronchial asthma, presented to an ophthalmologist ...

Background Previous studies have shown that the incidence of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is rising in the UK and USA. Death registrations and primary care data were used to determine the ...

2 Department of Leucocyte Biology and Anaesthetics, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK 3 Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London, ...

Correspondence to Sean M Cavany, TB Modelling Group, TB Centre and CMMID, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, ...

2 Department of Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation, Coventry University, School of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry, UK 3 Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, ...

Health status measurement is a common feature of studies in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This review assesses recent evidence for the validity of these measurements and their role as ...

1 Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria 3050, Australia 2 Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, ...

Introduction Spontaneous pneumothorax (SP) is broken down into primary (PSP: no known underlying lung disease), secondary (SSP: known lung disease) and from trauma or iatrogenic pneumothorax (IP).

BACKGROUND There is evidence of a positive association between asthma and obesity in adults and in children. We investigated, in a large sample of English and Scottish primary school children, whether ...

1 The James Hogg iCAPTURE Center for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2 Department of Medicine (Pulmonary Division), University of British Columbia, Vancouver ...

Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and of Medicine, Center for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Research Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada ...