The rationale for subphenotyping acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) arises from its marked biological and clinical ...

Background The increasing number of patients treated by long-term non-invasive ventilation (NIV) challenges the capacity of ...

Churg-Strauss syndrome is a rare form of eosinophilic vasculitis associated with asthma. There have been several recent case reports of the condition in association with leukotriene antagonists and it ...

Objectives In patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), severe exacerbations (ECOPDs) impose significant morbidity and mortality. Current guidelines emphasise using ECOPD history to ...

Expiratory airflow was measured by spirometry at ages 8 years, 18 years and 25 years in 297 survivors born extremely preterm (EP; <28 weeks’ gestation) or extremely low birth weight (ELBW; <1000 g) ...

1 School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong Background Climate change increases global mean temperature ...

Phase-resolved functional lung (PREFUL) MRI provides unique insight into response to bilobectomy in a child with primary ciliary dyskinesia ...

1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 2 Department of Biochemistry, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan Correspondence to: Dr A ...

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 An obstructive defect is usual in bronchiectasis, but the pathophysiological basis of airflow obstruction remains uncertain. High resolution computed tomographic (CT) scanning now allows ...

Background Cod liver oil is an important source of vitamin D, but also contains other fat-soluble components such as vitamin A. Before 1999, the cod liver oil formula in Norway contained a high ...

Environmental factors, here taken to include pollutants, lifestyle factors and behaviours, can play an important role in serious, chronic pathologies with large societal and economic costs, including ...