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

Correspondence to Professor Claire L Shovlin, Professor of Practice (Clinical and Molecular Medicine), NHLI Vascular Science, Imperial College London, Imperial Centre for Translational and ...

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 Dr Marieke L Duiverman, Department of Pulmonary Diseases/Home Mechanical Ventilation, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9713 GZ, The Netherlands ...

Correspondence to: Professor RA Stockley, Department of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham B15 2TH, UK; r.a.stockley{at}bham.ac.uk Background: Sputum analysis is used increasingly to ...

8 Department of Respiratory Medicine at Royal Brompton Hospital, London, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, and Imperial College, London, UK 9 Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK Correspondence ...

Background The authors consider whether differences in stage at diagnosis could explain the variation in lung cancer survival between six developed countries in 2004–2007. Methods Routinely collected ...

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, ...

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) encompasses a group of disorders characterised by the presence of incompletely reversible airflow obstruction with overlapping subsets of ...

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).

1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tuberculosis Research Unit, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK 2 Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, MRC Centre for ...