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3 The Academic Division of Thoracic Surgery, The Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK 4 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK 5 Respiratory Medicine Unit, ...
Rationale Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the most common indication for domiciliary non-invasive ventilation (NIV), but long-term outcomes data are limited. Objective This multistate ...
Objectives Infliximab, an anti-TNF agent, is used to treat sarcoidosis that does not respond to corticosteroids or second-line agents. The efficacy of other anti-TNF agents, non-TNF biologics and ...
Correspondence to Dr Audrey Winter, Department of Radiological Sciences, Medical Imaging Informatics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; audrey.winter89{at}gmail.com Introduction We ...
Correspondence to Dr Harpreet K Lota, ST5 in Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, UK; h.lota{at}rbht.nhs.uk If you wish to reuse any or all of this article ...
Background: Chronic cough is a common condition which has a significant impact on quality of life. Assessment and management are hampered by the absence of well validated outcome measures. The ...
Department of Maternal and Paediatric Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy Correspondence to Nicola Principi, Department ...
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer affiliated with Sackler Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University Correspondence to: Dr A Yellin, Department of General Thoracic ...
1 Department of CardioThoracic Surgery, Gentofte University Hospital, DK-2900 Hellerup, Copenhagen, Denmark 2 Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Gentofte University Hospital 3 Department of ...
BACKGROUND Fibreoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) is the usual initial investigation of choice in patients with suspected endobronchial carcinoma, but it is often non-diagnostic. Once a positive diagnosis has ...
Correspondence to Dr Wei Shen Lim, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Hucknall Road, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK; weishen.lim{at}nuh.nhs.uk In 2013, 16 UK ...
Correspondence to Professor Karim Vermaelen, Tumor Immunology Laboratory, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital 7K12ie, De Pintelaan 185, Ghent B-9000, Belgium; Karim.Vermaelen ...