Background Limited research exists on screening thresholds for low-dose CT in detecting malignant pure ground-glass lung ...

Atypical radiological manifestation of sarcoidosis presenting with an anterior mediastinal mass ...

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, USA Background: While acute lung injury (ALI) is among the most serious ...

Background With higher valency pneumococcal vaccines on the horizon and new adult immunisation strategies under discussion, ...

Proportional assist ventilation is a promising addition to other more conventional modes of mechanical ventilation with the theoretical advantage of improving patient-ventilator interaction. It may ...

1 Castle Hill Hospital, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Cottingham, East Yorkshire, UK 2 Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust, Dundee, UK ...

1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Alfred Hospital and Monash University Medical School, Melbourne 3181, Australia 2 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Alfred Hospital and Monash ...

Correspondence to Professor Heather J Zar, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, 5th Floor, ICH Building, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town 7700, South Africa; heather.zar{at ...

Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK Dr Sophie D West, Sleep Unit, Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Churchill Hospital, Old Road, Oxford OX3 ...

Intensive care unit acquired weakness (ICUAW) is now a well-known entity complicating critical illness. It increases mortality and in the critical illness survivor it is associated with physical ...

Background Uncontrolled asthma is possibly caused by medication non-adherence, and financial hardship can be a major contributor to non-adherence. Since economic conditions and asthma management have ...

"Science means constantly walking a tight rope" Heinrich Rohrer, physicist, 1933. Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the leading cause of death from infectious disease worldwide and ...