2 Centre for Clinical Research, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway 3 Department of Thoracic Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway 4 Channing Laboratory and Pulmonary and ...

Background: Atopy is not uncommon among children living in rural Crete, but wheeze and rhinitis are rare. A study was undertaken to examine whether this discrepancy could be attributed to a high ...

Background Spirometry is a measure of lung function used to make clinical decisions regarding the diagnosis and management of ...

Lung cancer (LC) remains the deadliest cancer in the world and LC screening programmes continue to expand across healthcare systems to improve outcomes by earlier detection.1 Following results from ...

Background Obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) is the most common indication for home ventilation, although the optimal therapy remains unclear, particularly for severe disease. We compared ...

Introduction To confirm resolution of air leak after intercostal chest drain (ICD) insertion for pneumothorax, physicians may clamp the ICD to mimic removal and/or use digital suction devices to ...

4 The Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Background Pulmonary rehabilitation is a cornerstone of care for COPD but uptake of traditional ...

Background Mobile health (mHealth) is a novel model of care that may overcome barriers to pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) access. This study determined if mHealth PR was equivalent to centre-based PR ...

We investigated the association between time of day and season of testing on the level of bronchodilator responsiveness in a hospital-based population. We found that per 1-hour increment in the ...

Correspondence to Dr Insa Korten, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Inselspital and University of Bern, Freiburgstrasse 31, Bern 3010, Switzerland; Insa.Korten{at}insel.ch ...

A key outcome from lung cancer screening studies is the concept of ‘stage-shift’ seen in screen-detected cancers compared ...

1 Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Caritas St Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA 2 GlaxoSmithKline R&D, Worldwide Epidemiology Department, London, UK ...