Academic Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew's and Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London EC1A 7BE, UK BACKGROUND Although it is presumed that exacerbations ...

Introduction and objectives Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) has been shown to reduce in-patient mortality in AECOPD from 20 to 10%. In 2011 national data revealed that there were multifactorial ...

Background Many patients with the obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSA) travel to the mountains for recreational and professional activities while temporarily discontinuing continuous positive ...

a Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sleep Laboratory and PRETA Laboratory, CHRU, Grenoble, France, b Respiratory Department, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, UK Professor PA Levy, EFCR, Pneumologie ...

Purpose With improving short-term mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), understanding survivors’ posthospitalisation outcomes is increasingly important. However, little is known ...

1 Center for Humanizing Critical Care, Intermountain Healthcare, Murray, Utah, USA Background With improving short-term mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), understanding and ...

3 Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology, Tel Aviv University School of Medicine, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel Correspondence to Professor Eitan Kerem, ...

1 Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia 2 Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Lidcombe, New South Wales, ...

aRespiratory Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK, bCancer and Blood Programme, The Hospital for ...

1 Department of General Practice, Division of Public Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, ...

Associations of pulmonary microvascular blood volume with per cent emphysema and CT emphysema subtypes in the community: the MESA Lung study ...

"Science means constantly walking a tight rope" Heinrich Rohrer, physicist, 1933. Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the leading cause of death from infectious disease worldwide and ...