Background Pulmonary microvasculature alterations are implicated in emphysema pathogenesis, but the association between ...

Introduction and Objectives Cardiac arrhythmias are regularly found in patients with COPD, with higher frequencies reported during exacerbations. We wished to examine the impact of tachycardia and new ...

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BACKGROUND Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes improve the health of patients disabled by lung disease but their cost effectiveness is unproved. We undertook a cost/utility analysis in conjunction ...

Autologous “blood patching” has been used successfully for the treatment of persistent air leak in patients with spontaneous secondary pneumothorax. The case history is presented of a 19 year old ...

A structural and metabolic framework for classifying pre-clinical tuberculosis infection phenotypes using 18F-FDG PET-CT: a prospective cohort analysis following M. tuberculosis exposure ...

DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, ...

aDepartment of Pulmonary and Mediastinal Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 6825 N W 16th Street, Bld 54, Rm M003B, Washington, DC 20306-6000, USA, bDepartment of Thoracic Radiology, ...

1 Department of Thoracic Surgery, School of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey 2 Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey 3 Department of Histology ...

Dr I M Balfour-Lynn, Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, UK; i.balfourlynn{at}ic.ac.uk The aims of these guidelines are ...