3 Radiodiagnostic Section, Department of Clinical Physiopathology University of Florence, Italy Correspondence to: Professor Mario Mascalchi Radiodiagnostic Section, Department of Clinical ...

Risk factors for atopic and non-atopic asthma in school-age children from high-income and low- and middle-income countries ...

Introduction Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPC) such as atelectasis and pneumonia are common following lung resection. PPCs have a significant clinical impact on postoperative morbidity and ...

Background Mobile health (mHealth) is a novel model of care that may overcome barriers to pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) ...

Introduction People who smoke are a third more likely to be admitted to hospital than non-smokers. A disparity in smoking ...

Fibroblastic foci—the cardinal feature of usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP)—are characterised by metaplastic alveolar epithelium overlying tufts of fibroblasts. UIP is further characterised by ...

Correspondence to Dr Carolyn S Calfee, Departments of Medicine and Anesthesia, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Francisco, CA 94143-0111, USA; ...

1 Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan 2 Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Gifu Prefectural General Medical Center, Gifu, Japan Background Bronchoscopy ...

Dr J B Soriano, Department of Worldwide Epidemiology, GlaxoWellcome R&D, Greenford, Middlesex UB6 0HE, UK email: jbs42397{at}glaxowellcome.co.uk BACKGROUND Recent trends in physician diagnosed chronic ...

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK Dr M Thomas, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill Health Centre, ...

A 36-year-old woman presented with complaints of diffuse chest pain persisting for one and a half years. A chest radiograph 6 months prior to this visit showed a smoothly marginated, homogenous ...