Correspondence to Professor Wim Janssens, Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases and Thoracic Surgery (BREATHE), KU Leuven, Leuven 3000, Belgium; wim.janssens{at}uzleuven.be Rationale Estimating the ...
Frailty, comorbidity and survival comparisons between populations eligible for screening according to risk factor versus risk score criteria: results from the Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial ...
Department of Respiratory Medicine, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK Correspondence to: Dr P K Plant, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Level 7, Gledhow Wing, St James’s University ...
Chronic cough or cough that lasts more than 8 weeks, once a chest x-ray and spirometry are confirmed normal, is caused by an alteration in a section of the route between peripheral receptors, mainly ...
5 Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Australia 6 The Children's Hospital at Westmead Clinical School, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of ...
Introduction The promise of benefits from lung cancer screening is tempered by the false positive rate and the need to perform diagnostic procedures to determine the aetiology of the solitary ...
Background Persistence of myofibroblasts is believed to contribute to the development of fibrosis in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Transforming growth factor β1 (TGFβ1) irreversibly converts ...
Background Exercise and traditional airway clearance techniques (ACTs) are both routinely recommended for people with cystic fibrosis (CF), with some people using exercise as a substitute for ...
a Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden, b Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Karolinska Hospital 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden Dr J O N ...
Introduction Lung-function outcomes among preterm-born children referred for pulmonology care are highly heterogeneous, and ...
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BACKGROUND Beta-2 agonists such as salbutamol are used, not only by asthmatic athletes to prevent exercise induced asthma, but also by non-asthmatic athletes as a potentially ergogenic agent. We have ...