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

1 Department of Pulmonary and Intensive Care Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam Correspondence to: ...

Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Correspondence to: Dr D E O’Donnell Division of Respiratory and Critical Care ...

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 ...

1 Clinical Trials Research Unit, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 2 Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 3 Department of Medicine, The University of ...

1 Department of General Practice, Division of Public Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, ...

National Mycobacteria Reference Laboratory, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands Mr J van Ingen, National Institute for Public Health and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

To reduce the incidence of cerebral damage after open-heart surgery measures were undertaken based on physiological principles and consideration of the possible injury caused by microemboli.

Section of Airways Disease, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College & Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust Hospital, London, UK Professor K F Chung, National Heart & Lung Institute, ...