Severe community-acquired pneumonia (sCAP) is a major global health challenge, with high morbidity and mortality, especially ...

1 Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, Division of Infection, Inflammation and Repair, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK 2 Department of Molecular ...

Department of Pulmonology and Pathology, University Hospital Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Correspondence to: H van der Vaart Department of Pulmonology, University Hospital Groningen, ...

1 Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands 2 Department of Pulmonary Medicine, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, The Netherlands Background: The idea of ...

Division of Pulmonary Disease and Laboratory of Cytoimmunopathology of Heart and Lung, Salvatore Maugeri Foundation, IRCCS, Veruno, Italy Background: Increased numbers of activated neutrophils have ...

There remain many treatment uncertainties in cystic fibrosis (CF). With limited resources, research should focus on questions which are most important to the CF community. We conducted a James Lind ...

Background Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) is characterised by repeated apnoea’s due to partial or total collapse of the upper airway during sleep, resulting in fragmentation of sleep and ...

Background The Quality of Life-Bronchiectasis (QOL-B), a self-administered, patient-reported outcome measure assessing symptoms, functioning and health-related quality of life for patients with ...

The mucolytic efficacy of S-carboxymethylcysteine has been assessed in a double-blind crossover trial in 16 patients with chronic obstructive bronchitis. No significant difference was found between ...

AIDS related mortality has fallen sharply in industrialised countries since 1996 following the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy. This has been accompanied by an increase in the ...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, Hôtel Dieu Hospital, Nantes, France 2 Department of Radiology, Hôtel Dieu Hospital, Nantes, France Correspondence to Professor Mohamed Hamidou, Department of ...

1 Queensland Children's Respiratory Centre, Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia 2 Queensland Children's Medical Research Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 3 ...