Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) are a significant cause of morbidity and ...

Introduction Physical exercise has been used to assist smoking cessation, but supervised programmes are bounded by limited ...

Introduction Patients with chronic bronchitis suffer high morbidity and rapid functional decline; thus, novel treatments are ...

Surveillance systems at the population level are of crucial importance to track diseases and detect trends over time. Among other benefits, these tools allow us to understand the distribution of ...

Background Previous studies have shown that the incidence of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is rising in the UK and USA. Death registrations and primary care data were used to determine the ...

Association between overuse of short-acting β2-agonists and the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events among patients with asthma ...

S Baudouin, S Blumenthal, B Cooper, C Davidson, A Davison, M Elliot, W Kinnear (Chairman), R Paton, E Sawicka, L Turner (Secretary) Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) refers to the provision of ...

Introduction Lung-function outcomes among preterm-born children referred for pulmonology care are highly heterogeneous, and early determinants remain incompletely defined. We aimed to identify ...

Objectives Spontaneous pneumothorax is a common pathology. International guidelines suggest pleurodesis for non-resolving air leak or recurrence prevention at second occurrence. This study ...

1 Technical University of Munich ZIEL - Institute for Food and Health, Freising, Germany 6 German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Airway Research Center North (ARCN), Borstel, Germany To examine the ...

1 Service de Pneumologie and UPRES EA 2511, Université René Descartes, Hôpital Cochin, AP-HP, Paris, France 2 Laboratoire d’Anatomie Pathologique, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, AP-HP, Paris, ...

Objective People with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have substantial palliative care needs, but uncertainty exists around appropriate identification of patients for palliative ...