Background The optimal duration of maintenance macrolide antibiotic therapy in obstructive airway disease (OAD) remains ...
Mepolizumab is a monoclonal antibody that targets interleukin-5, a key cytokine in eosinophilic inflammation. The MATINEE ...
Background Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a prevalent sleep disorder strongly associated with metabolic syndrome. Visceral adiposity is the principal culprit of the metabolic syndrome leading to ...
Objective Severe early-onset-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (SEO-COPD) represents the most severe form of COPD that ...
A 62-year-old man with a history of systemic Amyloid light-chain (AL) amyloidosis in prior haematological remission presented with progressive dyspnoea and non-productive cough. He denied haemoptysis, ...
If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be ...
Surveillance systems at the population level are of crucial importance to track diseases and detect trends over time. Among other benefits, these tools allow us to understand the distribution of ...
Introduction Physical exercise has been used to assist smoking cessation, but supervised programmes are bounded by limited ...
Background Current quantitative chest CT techniques improve chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) phenotyping but do not capture spatial variability and potentially reversible disease in local ...
Background Critical care medicine has historically relied on syndromic diagnoses such as sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and acute kidney injury to guide research and treatment.
Background Fibrotic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (FHP) is an irreversible lung disease with high morbidity and mortality. We sought to evaluate the safety and effect of pirfenidone on disease ...