Background Pulmonary microvasculature alterations are implicated in emphysema pathogenesis, but the association between ...
1 David Read Laboratory, Department of Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia Correspondence to: Dr ...
Background: Oxidative stress is thought to have a major role in the pathogenesis of airway obstruction. A study was undertaken to determine whether subjects with low levels of antioxidants (serum ...
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BACKGROUND Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes improve the health of patients disabled by lung disease but their cost effectiveness is unproved. We undertook a cost/utility analysis in conjunction ...
Introduction Despite the introduction of dedicated asthma services and targeted therapies, asthma exacerbations remain a common cause of hospital admission with significant utilisation of health care ...
DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, ...
Autologous “blood patching” has been used successfully for the treatment of persistent air leak in patients with spontaneous secondary pneumothorax. The case history is presented of a 19 year old ...
Objective Anaesthesiology guidelines suggest that opioids worsen obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) despite no randomised controlled trial evidence. We therefore conducted a randomised controlled trial to ...
Background The bronchial epithelium and underlying reticular basement membrane (RBM) have a close spatial and functional inter-relationship and are considered an epithelial–mesenchymal trophic unit ...
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 ...
Correspondence to Dr Lieuwe D Bos, Intensive Care, Amsterdam UMC Location AMC, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands; l.d.bos{at}amc.uva.nl Patients suspected of ventilator-associated lower respiratory ...