A 64-year-old male retired firefighter and never-smoker presented to the ventilation team with a 6-month history of ...

We present the case of a 45-year-old man who reported 2 years of cough and expectoration and 1 year of dyspnoea. He had a ...

Background Previous models of Hospital at Home (HAH) for COPD exacerbation (ECOPD) were limited by the lack of a reliable prognostic score to guide patient selection. Approximately 50% of hospitalised ...

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

1 Respiratory Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (Queen ...

The epidemiology of exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is reviewed with particular reference to the definition, frequency, time course, natural history and seasonality, and ...

7 Department of Radiology, Royal Darwin Hospital, Northern Territory, Australia 8 Radiology Department, Royal Adelaide Hospital, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 9 National Institute of Health ...

Background Childhood interstitial lung disease (chILD) encompasses a group of rare heterogeneous respiratory conditions associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Reports suggest that many ...

Departments of Respiratory Medicine and Immunology, Western Infirmary, Glasgow G11 6NT, UK Correspondence to: Professor N C Thomson, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Western Infirmary, Glasgow G11 ...

Asthma, an inflammatory disease of the airways, is a common condition, currently affecting about 9% of adults. Obesity is another disease with high prevalence in adults, and asthma that develops in ...

Otago and Canterbury Respiratory Research Groups, Dunedin and Christchurch Schools of Medicine, University of Otago Medical School, New Zealand Dr D R Taylor, Department of Medicine, Dunedin School of ...

Correspondence to Distinguished Professor Charlie C Xue, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; charlie.xue{at}rmit.edu.au; Professor Lin Lin, The ...