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 ...

1 Child Health and Nottingham Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK 2 Children's Renal and Urology Unit, Nottingham University ...

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

1 Respiratory Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (Queen ...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic lung condition with poor survival times. We previously published a genome-wide meta-analysis of IPF risk across three studies with independent ...

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, ...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan 2 Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch, ...

Background Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has significantly altered the pattern of acute and chronic HIV-related disease. However, it is not clear what this means in terms of respiratory symptoms. We ...

Background Previous studies have suggested that long-term use of β agonists to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may increase the risk of cardiovascular adverse events. In this post ...

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 ...