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Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) are a significant cause of morbidity and ...
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Metered cryospray in patients with chronic bronchitis: a mechanistic randomised controlled study

Introduction Patients with chronic bronchitis suffer high morbidity and rapid functional decline; thus, novel treatments are ...
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Mediastinal amyloidosis mimicking advanced lung cancer

A 62-year-old man with a history of systemic Amyloid light-chain (AL) amyloidosis in prior haematological remission presented ...
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The rising incidence of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in the UK

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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Vitamin A and D impact on lung function: differential or common effects across the lifespan?

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School-age lung function after preterm birth: early-life determinants in a paediatric pulmonology cohort with comparison with NHANES

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 ...
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Phosphodiesterase 4 inhibition decreases MUC5AC expression induced by epidermal growth factor in human airway epithelial cells

3 Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain Correspondence to: Dr E J Morcillo Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Av. Blasco Ibanez 15, ...
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Non-invasive ventilation in acute respiratory failure

S Baudouin, S Blumenthal, B Cooper, C Davidson, A Davison, M Elliot, W Kinnear (Chairman), R Paton, E Sawicka, L Turner (Secretary) Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) refers to the provision of ...
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End-of-life care in oxygen-dependent ILD compared with lung cancer: a national population-based study

Rationale Advanced fibrosing interstitial lung disease (ILD) is often progressive and associated with a high burden of symptoms and poor prognosis. Little is known about the symptom prevalence and ...
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Effect of two breathing exercises (Buteyko and pranayama) in asthma: a randomised controlled trial

Division of Respiratory Medicine, City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK Correspondence to: Ms S Cooper, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, ...
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Low serum iron levels are associated with elevated plasma levels of coagulation factor VIII and pulmonary emboli/deep venous thromboses in replicate cohorts of patients with ...

3 Department of Haematology, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK 4 Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, ...
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Recent trends in physician diagnosed COPD in women and men in the UK

Dr J B Soriano, Department of Worldwide Epidemiology, GlaxoWellcome R&D, Greenford, Middlesex UB6 0HE, UK email: jbs42397{at}glaxowellcome.co.uk BACKGROUND Recent trends in physician diagnosed chronic ...