Background Critical care medicine has historically relied on syndromic diagnoses such as sepsis, acute respiratory distress ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science developed in the 1950s to imitate the human ability for solving ...

AI-powered evaluation of lung function for diagnosis of interstitial lung disease ...

Background Relapse continues to place significant burden on patients and tuberculosis (TB) programmes worldwide. We aimed to determine clinical and microbiological factors associated with relapse in ...

Chronic cough (CC) is common, predominantly affecting middle-aged females. Sufferers experience significantly impaired quality of life (QoL). Cough is associated with increased healthcare costs.

Correspondence to Inge A H van den Berk, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam UMC Location AMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands; i.a.vandenberk{at}amsterdamumc.nl Background Chest CT ...

Background Malignant pleural effusion (MPE) causes debilitating breathlessness and predicting survival is challenging. This study aimed to obtain contemporary data on survival by underlying tumour ...

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Rationale Eosinophils are associated with airway inflammation in respiratory disease. Eosinophil production and survival is controlled partly by interleukin-5: anti-interleukin-5 agents reduce asthma ...

Correspondence to Professor David B Price, Academic Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK; dprice{at}opri.sg Background Little is known about the impact of exacerbations on COPD ...

1 Respiratory Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (Queen ...

Background Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The extent to which the excess CVD risk is captured by risk factors in ...