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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and sarcoidosis are common diagnoses in patients attending chest clinics, but little is known about the epidemiology of these diseases. We used data ...

Objective To determine whether environmental control using nocturnal temperature controlled laminar airflow (TLA) treatment could improve the quality of life of patients with persistent atopic asthma.

Introduction Lung cancer has a poor prognosis that varies internationally when assessed by the two major histological subgroups (non-small cell (NSCLC) and small cell (SCLC)). Method 236 114 NSCLC and ...

1 Department of Social Medicine, School of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China 2 School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Victoria, ...

Department of Human Biology, Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute (NUTRIM), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands Dr A M W J Schols, NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and ...