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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Charlotte Summers, Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, Box 93, Level 4, Addenbrooke's Hospital, CUHNHSFT, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 OQQ, UK; ...

Department of Physiological Medicine, St George’s Hospital Medical School, London SW17 0RE, UK Correspondence to: Ms S Spencer, Department of Physiological Medicine, St George’s Hospital Medical ...

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

Correspondence to British Thoracic Society, 17, Doughty Street, London WC1N 2PL, UK; bts{at}brit-thoracic.org.uk and Dr Charlotte E Bolton, Nottingham Respiratory Research Unit, University of ...

BACKGROUND In acute asthma the optimal duration of treatment with combination β agonist and anticholinergic nebuliser solutions is unknown; most studies have investigated single doses or treatment for ...

4 Members of the British Paediatric Respiratory Society Empyema Study Group: A Bush and M Rosenthal, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, London; T Edmunds, Sick Children's NHS Trust Edinburgh; W ...

Central Laboratory of Virology, Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland Dr J Garbino, Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospitals of Geneva, 24 ...

3 Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China Background Dyslipidaemia is an intermediary exacerbation factor for various ...