Background Thoracic radiotherapy (RT) results in pulmonary fibrosis that has been hypothesised to increase the risk of ...

Objective Despite extensive research on the detrimental effects of air pollution on respiratory diseases like asthma and ...

Introduction Oscillating positive expiratory pressure (OPEP) devices are intended to facilitate sputum clearance in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but there is uncertainty as to their ...

Background Rare cystic lung diseases are increasingly recognised due the wider application of CT scanning making cystic lung disease management a growing part of respiratory care. Cystic lung diseases ...

1 Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia 2 Queensland Children's Medical Research ...

a Microbiology and Tumour Biology Centre, Karolinska Institutet, S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden, b Department of Medicine, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden Dr J ...

BACKGROUND--Maximal inspiratory pressure (MIP) is often relied upon as an index of inspiratory muscle strength, and reproducibility of MIP taken to indicate maximal effort. This study was designed to ...

Departments of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, People’s Republic of China Background: Previous studies have ...

Footnotes Contributors All authors contributed equally. Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit ...

Introduction There is an unmet need for a validated qualitative and quantitative tool to assess environmental exposures in patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD). This study aimed to develop ...

Background Owing to discrepancies in methodologies and how idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is diagnosed it is challenging to establish a consistent understanding of the disease burden In the UK, ...

Tommaso Morelli and colleagues present a timely and methodologically robust study that sheds new light on how risk (for poor outcome) could be assessed in adults hospitalised with respiratory ...