3 The Academic Division of Thoracic Surgery, The Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK 4 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK 5 Respiratory Medicine Unit, ...

Objectives Case finding is proposed as an important component of the forthcoming English National Clinical Strategy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) because of accepted widespread ...

Background: In adults, viral causes of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) are poorly characterised. The aims of this study were to characterise the viral aetiology of CAP in adults by using an ...

Background: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) profoundly affects the quality of patients’ lives. A systematic review was performed to evaluate critically the published literature and to examine what ...

Introduction Acute exacerbation of interstitial lung disease (AE-ILD) often results in death and poses significant challenges in clinical management. While corticosteroids are frequently employed, the ...

Lung cancer screening (LCS) reduces lung cancer-related mortality; however, uptake remains low compared with other cancer screening programmes. In this observational study, we report the impact of ...

Background Vitamin A, an essential micronutrient obtained through the diet, plays a crucial role in lung development and contributes to lung regeneration. We aimed to investigate its effect on adult ...

This is an account of the life and work of Robert Koch (1843-1910), Nobel Laureate in Medicine and a founder of the science of bacteriology. In particular, Koch's researches into tuberculosis are ...

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Most physicians believe they do more good than harm, and these duties of helping and not harming the patient are rooted in the Hippocratic oath, the good Samaritan tradition, and the Order of the ...

An 81-year-old woman presented to rheumatology with a relapse of her longstanding seropositive erosive rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Her medical history was significant for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia ...

Correspondence to Dr Rafael Dahmer Rocha, Department of Interventional Radiology, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Avenida Albert Einsten, 627/701 - Morumbi, São Paulo - São Paulo 05652-900, Brazil ...