We quantified the proportion of diagnoses of pulmonary fibrosis (PF) among 25 136 people with lung cancer and 250 583 matched ...

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne. Bacillus cereus is rarely a pulmonary pathogen but may cause pneumonia in immunocompromised patients. A patient with ...

Introduction NICE guidelines recommend a Mantoux threshold of 15 mm induration to trigger investigation for tuberculosis (TB), with IGRA tests used as second line in selected groups. Little data are ...

1 Clinical and Academic Department of Sleep and Breathing, National Heart and Lung Institute and NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College, London, UK 2 Department of ...

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1 Department of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences, King's College London, London, UK 2 Department of Community Health Sciences, St George's, University of London, London, UK 3 Queen Mary ...

Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Correspondence to: Dr D E O’Donnell Division of Respiratory and Critical Care ...

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 ...

Two cases of an acute chest illness occurring in mushroom workers are described. In one patient, who was severely ill, a lung biopsy was obtained which showed a pattern of alveolitis and interstitial ...

1 Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Sophia Children’s Hospital/Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Child Health, Queen’s University of Belfast ...

Dr J K Baillie, Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 54 Little France Drive, Edinburgh EH16 5SA, UK; j.k.baillie{at}altitude.org If you wish to ...

Mitral valvotomy is of established value in improving the clinical condition and life expectancy of patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis. Its value in preventing or reducing the incidence of ...