Background Bronchoscopic limitations in reaching peripheral pulmonary lesions (PPLs) can compromise biopsy sensitivity, ...

Background Infants of asthmatic mothers have reduced lung function in early life for reasons that remain to be defined. The association between inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) use during pregnancy and ...

Correspondence to Professor Talat Islam, Department of Population and Public Health Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA-90033, USA; islam{at}usc.edu Rationale Despite high ...

Introduction Evidence suggests that platelets play a significant role in inflammation in addition to their role in thrombosis. Systemic inflammation is linked to poor short and long term outcomes in ...

BACKGROUND The Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire (CRQ) is an established measure of health status for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It has been found to be reproducible and sensitive ...

2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Institute for Lung Health, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK Correspondence to Dr Michael C Steiner, Department of ...

2 Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Disorders Medicine, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA 3 Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of ...

Background: Patterns of wheezing during early childhood may indicate differences in aetiology and prognosis of respiratory illnesses. Improved characterisation of wheezing phenotypes could lead to the ...

Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island and Brown University, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA Correspondence to Dr F Dennis McCool, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Memorial Hospital of Rhode ...

Churg-Strauss syndrome is a rare form of eosinophilic vasculitis associated with asthma. There have been several recent case reports of the condition in association with leukotriene antagonists and it ...

2 Department of Thoracic Medicine, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, UK 3 Centre for Medical Microbiology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, ...

Background Despite exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) being both common and often fatal, accurate prognostication of patients hospitalised with an exacerbation is difficult.