Department of Psychiatry, Prince of Wales and Shatin Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong Dr A M Li, Department of Paediatrics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese ...

BACKGROUND Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) has recently re-emerged as a surgical option for the treatment of end stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) due to underlying severe ...

Background Pulmonary microvasculature alterations are implicated in emphysema pathogenesis, but the association between ...

1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Alfred Hospital and Monash University Medical School, Melbourne 3181, Australia 2 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Alfred Hospital and Monash ...

1 Department of Geriatric Medicine, Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust, Bath, UK 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK 3 Department of Respiratory Medicine, ...

Dr N Nathani, Department of Thoracic Medicine, City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham B18 7QH, UK; n.nathani{at}nhs.net Background: Churg–Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a rare granulomatous small vessel ...

Background Overexpression of the transforming growth factor β family signalling molecule smad2 in the airway epithelium provokes enhanced allergen-induced airway remodelling in mice, concomitant with ...

Background It is uncertain whether isolated pleural plaques cause functional impairment. Objective To analyse the relationship between isolated pleural plaques confirmed by CT scanning and lung ...

Objective Anaesthesiology guidelines suggest that opioids worsen obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) despite no randomised controlled trial evidence. We therefore conducted a randomised controlled trial to ...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine, and AIDS, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2 Department of Clinical ...

Introduction There is some evidence that CPAP increases intraocular pressure (IOP) at night but this has not been examined in patients with glaucoma in whom IOP lowering is the mainstay of treatment.

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