1 Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia 2 Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia 3 Monash ...

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 ...

Bronchopulmonary aspergillosis is usually caused by Aspergillus fumigatus. The six cases from the Sudan reported here were due to Aspergillus flavus. Three of the patients had primary invasive disease ...

`Fibrosing alveolitis' refers to a broad general category of disease characterized by an inflammatory process in the lung beyond the terminal bronchiole having as its essential features (1) cellular ...

Background Development of emphysema and vascular stiffness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may be due to a common mechanism of susceptibility to pulmonary and systemic elastin ...

Guidelines on contraindications for lung function tests have been based on expert opinion from >30 years ago. High-risk contraindications to lung function testing are associated with cardiovascular ...

1 Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, Institute of Human Development, Manchester, UK 2 Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Correspondence to Dr Hannah J Durrington, ...

Introduction The impact of TB disease on survival in people living with HIV in high resource settings is not well documented in the antiretroviral treatment (ART) era. We calculated TB incidence rates ...

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 ...

1 NHS Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT), University College London, London, UK 2 Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London, London, UK Background ...

1 Centre for Respiratory Failure and Sleep Disorders, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW 2050 and Institute of Respiratory Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia 2 Human Nutrition ...

Introduction and Objectives Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive and invariably fatal disease. Historical cohort studies have reported a median survival of 2.8–3.2 years 1. The UK has ...