Background Spirometry is a measure of lung function used to make clinical decisions regarding the diagnosis and management of ...
A key outcome from lung cancer screening studies is the concept of ‘stage-shift’ seen in screen-detected cancers compared ...
Background Asthma is an umbrella diagnosis encompassing distinct pathophysiological mechanisms. While a global problem, our ...
Lung cancer (LC) remains the deadliest cancer in the world and LC screening programmes continue to expand across healthcare systems to improve outcomes by earlier detection.1 Following results from ...
2 Department of Leucocyte Biology and Anaesthetics, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK 3 Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London, ...
Introduction Positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy is the recognised treatment for sleep disordered breathing (SDB), delivered via a tight-fitting face mask (interface). Conventional interfaces do ...
Correspondence to Dr Lorraine B Ware, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA; ...
2 Centre for Clinical Research, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway 3 Department of Thoracic Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway 4 Channing Laboratory and Pulmonary and ...
These guidelines have been developed at the request of the Standards of Care Committee of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and with the agreement of the Royal College of Radiologists and the British ...
Background Considerable challenges exist in managing lung cancer and mesothelioma, including diagnostic complexity, treatment stratification, early detection and imaging quantification. Variable ...
Background Although an increased concentration of degraded elastin products in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been reported for many years, its clinical validity and ...
Background Uncertainty exists about the beneficial effects of delivering pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) during exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (ECOPD). This study explored the ...