Background Spirometry is a measure of lung function used to make clinical decisions regarding the diagnosis and management of ...
A key outcome from lung cancer screening studies is the concept of ‘stage-shift’ seen in screen-detected cancers compared ...
Background Lung cancer screening is effective for people at higher risk of the disease, but there is no international ...
Background Asthma is an umbrella diagnosis encompassing distinct pathophysiological mechanisms. While a global problem, our ...
Background Quadriceps maximal voluntary contraction (QMVC) reliably measures quadriceps muscle force and predicts mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, the minimal ...
Introduction Positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy is the recognised treatment for sleep disordered breathing (SDB), delivered via a tight-fitting face mask (interface). Conventional interfaces do ...
2 Department of Leucocyte Biology and Anaesthetics, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK 3 Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London, ...
These guidelines have been developed at the request of the Standards of Care Committee of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and with the agreement of the Royal College of Radiologists and the British ...
Measurement properties of the sit-to-stand test in community-dwelling people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a COSMIN systematic review ...
Background Physicians treating acute pulmonary embolism (PE) are faced with difficult management decisions while specific guidance from recent guidelines may be absent. Methods Fourteen clinical ...
Introduction Inhaled gene therapy of muco-obstructive lung diseases requires a strategy to achieve therapeutically relevant gene transfer to airway epithelium covered by particularly dehydrated and ...
4 The Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Background Pulmonary rehabilitation is a cornerstone of care for COPD but uptake of traditional ...
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