BACKGROUND Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes improve the health of patients disabled by lung disease but their cost effectiveness is unproved. We undertook a cost/utility analysis in conjunction ...
a Department of Respiratory Medicine, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK, b Department of Sports Science, Loughborough University of Technology, UK Dr S M Revill. BACKGROUND The purpose of this ...
Antileukotriene drugs are new therapeutic agents that have recently been approved for the treatment of asthma. Several cases of eosinophilic conditions including Churg-Strauss syndrome have been ...
3 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK Correspondence to Dr Chamira Rodrigo, Department of Respiratory Medicine, City Campus ...
Background Infections are considered as leading causes of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Non-infectious risk factors such as short-term air pollution exposure may ...
While case reports have documented recurrence of Legionnaires’ disease, the frequency of recurrent infections has not been systematically examined at a national level over multiple decades. Between ...