8 Respiratory Medicine Department, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Plymouth, UK 9 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, UK 10 ...

10 Centre Valaisan de Pneumologie et Département de Médecine Interne du Centre Hospitalier du Centre du Valais, Crans-Montana, Switzerland 11 Division of Pulmonary Medicine, University Hospital of ...

Introduction and Aims Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) has a huge impact on healthcare systems. Readmission rates following hospital admission with CAP have increased in the UK over the past decade.

Background Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are the most prevalent respiratory diseases, yet the lack of accessible standardised diagnostics in primary care often lead to ...

Correspondence to Professor Weihong Chen, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, ...

BACKGROUND The bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) remains the major constraint on the long term success of lung transplantation. Neutrophils have been associated with fibrosing lung conditions ...

This paper contains an analysis and appreciation of one of Moses Maimonides' authentic medical works, his Treatise on Asthma. After a brief biographical section, passages from the work are cited and ...

Introduction There has been a marked increase in vaping in the UK since 2012 and in children between 2018–2021. Anecdotal reports from those working directly with children and young people indicate ...

1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Division of Immunology, Infection and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 2 Department of Immunology, Division of Immunology, Infection and ...

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 ...

Background Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is essential in determining the efficacy of novel therapies in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD). These require initial proof-of-concept demonstration that ...

Atypical radiological manifestation of sarcoidosis presenting with an anterior mediastinal mass ...