Salbutamol solution is usually administered by nebuliser in a dose of 5 mg. Little evidence exists that this is the optimal dose for bronchodilatation or that this dose is without side-effects. Twelve ...

Introduction Fluoroquinolones can cause severe collagen-associated adverse effects, potentially impacting the pulmonary connective tissue. We investigated the association between fluoroquinolones and ...

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: Professor R Hubbard British Lung Foundation Professor of Respiratory Epidemiology, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK; ...

4 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia Correspondence to: Dr D Breen, Intensive Care Unit, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Missenden Road, Camperdown, NSW ...

Intensive Care Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK Correspondence to: Dr C S Garrard, Intensive Care Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK; chris.garrard{at}clinical-medicine ...

We used data from 11 577 children in the UK Millennium Cohort Study, collected at approximately 14 years of age (early teens), to assess characteristics associated with smoking, and generated regional ...

a Division of Respiratory Medicine, Thoracic Clinics, Karolinska Hospital, SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden, b University Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK Dr B ...

Background: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) profoundly affects the quality of patients’ lives. A systematic review was performed to evaluate critically the published literature and to examine what ...

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 ...

Proportional assist ventilation is a promising addition to other more conventional modes of mechanical ventilation with the theoretical advantage of improving patient-ventilator interaction. It may ...