Background Prior work suggests different interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) that share the radiological usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) pattern have an overall worse prognosis. However, ...

1 Centre for Infection and Immunity, Queen's University of Belfast, UK 2 Department of Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, Institute for Lung Health, University of Leicester, UK Introduction ...

Introduction and objectives Inhalers are widely used in the treatment of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). For patients to gain maximum benefit they need to be educated by ...

Using the best available evidence and expert consensus, this document provides guidance for adverse effect monitoring in multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB). It includes recommendations for baseline tests ...

In the nineteenth century, it was recognised that acute attacks of chronic bronchitis were harmful. 140 years later, it is clearer than ever that exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

Background The diagnosis and management of pneumonia is often challenging due to its overlapping clinical presentations with other respiratory illnesses, low pathogen identification rates, and slow ...

4 Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Spain 5 Centro de Investigación Biomédica En Red-Enfermedades Respiratorias (CibeRes, CB06/06/0028), Instituto de Salud Carlos ...

Background Minimising hypoxaemia during submaximal walking tests has a positive effect on exercise capacity and dyspnoea in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) on long-term ...

Dr C F A Pantin, Department of Respiratory Medicine, City General University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Newcastle Road, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire ST4 6QG, UK; ...

BACKGROUND Little is known of the epidemiology of pneumothorax. Routinely available data on pneumothorax in England are described. METHODS Patients consulting in primary care with a diagnosis of ...

The British Thoracic Society (BTS) first produced a guideline on asthma and its management in 1990. The first collaborative guideline with the Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network (SIGN) using ...

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