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1 Centre for Respiratory Failure and Sleep Disorders, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW 2050 and Institute of Respiratory Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia 2 Human Nutrition ...

Introduction and Objectives Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive and invariably fatal disease. Historical cohort studies have reported a median survival of 2.8–3.2 years 1. The UK has ...

Aims and Objectives An Integrated Respiratory Team (IRT) was established as a service innovation pilot project to improve outcomes for patients with COPD. As part of the IRT pilot, a Virtual ward for ...

Dr A Bush, Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, UK email:a.bush{at}rbh.nthames.nhs.uk BACKGROUND The addition of long acting inhaled β ...

Introduction Laryngeal dysfunction can present as a spectrum of clinical presentations, including Inducible laryngeal obstruction (ILO) and/or Chronic Cough (CC). ILO and CC can occur following an ...

Of 49 patients undergoing operation for benign spontaneous pneumothorax, 28 (57%) were found to have a sharp first or second rib. In a series of 100 patients undergoing thoracotomy for other ...

Background: The load imposed on ventilation by increased body mass contributes to the respiratory symptoms caused by obesity. A study was conducted to quantify ventilatory load and respiratory drive ...

2 Department of Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation, Coventry University, School of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry, UK 3 Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, ...

A structural and metabolic framework for classifying pre-clinical tuberculosis infection phenotypes using 18F-FDG PET-CT: a prospective cohort analysis following M. tuberculosis exposure ...

Background: The usefulness of induced sputum in searching for causative agents of pneumonia in children has not been studied. Methods: The study involved 101 children, aged 6 months to 15 years, ...