Background Exacerbations of respiratory conditions including asthma are amongst the most common causes of emergency hospital attendances, but numerous pulmonary and extra-pulmonary comorbidities can ...

Background Tobacco smoking is a leading behavioural risk factor for death in the UK, contributing to deaths from cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory diseases and common infectious diseases. 1 ...

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Introduction and objectives BTS Community Acquired pneumonia (CAP) guidelines require a chest radiograph (CXR) 6 weeks after discharge in high risk patients. This is the hospital team’s responsibility ...

2 Research and Early Development, Respiratory and Immunology, BioPharmaceuticals RandD, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK 3 Respiratory and Immunology, Biometrics and Statistical Innovation, Late Respiratory ...

Small Area Health Statistics Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK Background: Recent studies have indicated long-term effects on ...

Introduction Identifying acute hypercapnic respiratory failure is crucial in the initial management of acute exacerbations of COPD. Guidelines recommend obtaining arterial blood samples but these are ...

1 Department of Academic Radiology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, South Yorkshire, UK Background ...

Correspondence to: Professor N C Thomson, University of Glasgow, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Western Infirmary, Glasgow G11 6NT, UK; n.c.thomson{at}clinmed.gla.ac.uk Background: In some ...

Background The aetiology of lung cancer among individuals who never smoked remains elusive, despite 15% of lung cancer cases in men and 53% in women worldwide being unrelated to smoking. Epigenetic ...

3 National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London and Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK Correspondence to Professor Jennifer K Quint, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College ...

The National Aspergillosis Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK Correspondence to Dr Chris Kosmidis, ...