Background Compared with cytotoxic chemotherapy, the efficacy and safety of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) for patients ...

Introduction People who smoke are a third more likely to be admitted to hospital than non-smokers. A disparity in smoking ...

a Academic Department of Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew’s and Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London Chest Hospital, London, UK, b Division of Physiological Medicine, St George’s ...

Fibroblastic foci—the cardinal feature of usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP)—are characterised by metaplastic alveolar epithelium overlying tufts of fibroblasts. UIP is further characterised by ...

Targeted lung cancer screening saves lives by shifting diagnosis to earlier stages, when curative treatment is more likely to succeed. To improve the efficiency of screening and minimise associated ...

For decades, most critical care patients have survived hospitalisation, supporting increased attention on the long-term ...

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 ...

1 Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University Ansan Hospital, Ansan, Republic of Korea 2 Division of Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal ...

1 The James Hogg iCAPTURE Center for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2 Department of Medicine (Pulmonary Division), University of British Columbia, Vancouver ...

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 ...

Reduction of the risk of asthma attacks is a major goal of current asthma management. We propose to derive a risk scale predicting asthma attacks based on the blood eosinophil count and exhaled nitric ...