Background Comparative evidence on the diagnostic yield of endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS)-guided sampling techniques for ...

Monocytes are central to innate and adaptive immunity, regulating tissue homeostasis and inflammation. However, data on their ...

Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) are a significant cause of morbidity and ...

A 62-year-old man with a history of systemic Amyloid light-chain (AL) amyloidosis in prior haematological remission presented ...

Surveillance systems at the population level are of crucial importance to track diseases and detect trends over time. Among other benefits, these tools allow us to understand the distribution of ...

The British Thoracic Society (BTS) guideline for the management of adults with community acquired pneumonia (CAP) published in 2009 was compared with the 2014 National Institute for Health and Care ...

Background Previous studies have shown that the incidence of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is rising in the UK and USA. Death registrations and primary care data were used to determine the ...

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1 Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine and AIDS, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of ...

Chronic refractory cough (CRC) is characterised by cough hypersensitivity. Interferon-γ (IFN-γ) has been reported to induce calcium influx, action potentials of vagal neurons in vitro and cough ...

Introduction Lung-function outcomes among preterm-born children referred for pulmonology care are highly heterogeneous, and early determinants remain incompletely defined. We aimed to identify ...