1 Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine, and AIDS, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2 Department of Clinical ...
Background Pulmonary microvasculature alterations are implicated in emphysema pathogenesis, but the association between pulmonary microvascular blood volume (PMBV) and emphysema has not been directly ...
BACKGROUND Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) has recently re-emerged as a surgical option for the treatment of end stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) due to underlying severe ...
1 Department of Geriatric Medicine, Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust, Bath, UK 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK 3 Department of Respiratory Medicine, ...
Background We aimed to disentangle genetic and environmental causes in lung cancer while considering smoking status. Methods Four Nordic twin cohorts (43 512 monozygotic (MZ) and 71 895 same sex ...
Background: Oxidative stress is thought to have a major role in the pathogenesis of airway obstruction. A study was undertaken to determine whether subjects with low levels of antioxidants (serum ...
Background Overexpression of the transforming growth factor β family signalling molecule smad2 in the airway epithelium provokes enhanced allergen-induced airway remodelling in mice, concomitant with ...
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Objective Anaesthesiology guidelines suggest that opioids worsen obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) despite no randomised controlled trial evidence. We therefore conducted a randomised controlled trial to ...
Correspondence to Dr Mark Birrell, Respiratory Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2AZ, UK; ...
8 Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Section of Occupational Medicine, University of Padova, Italy 9 Departments of Medicine, Oncology and Radiology, Section of Respiratory ...
Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Correspondence to: Dr D E O’Donnell Division of Respiratory and Critical Care ...