Background Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) is characterised by repeated apnoea’s due to partial or total collapse of the upper airway during sleep, resulting in fragmentation of sleep and ...

Introduction and Objectives Tension pneumothorax is a life-threatening condition, occurring when an increasing pressure of air in the pleural space compresses mediastinal structures, leading to ...

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1 Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, Division of Infection, Inflammation and Repair, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK 2 Department of Molecular ...

Department of Pulmonology and Pathology, University Hospital Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Correspondence to: H van der Vaart Department of Pulmonology, University Hospital Groningen, ...

1 Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands 2 Department of Pulmonary Medicine, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, The Netherlands Background: The idea of ...

Division of Pulmonary Disease and Laboratory of Cytoimmunopathology of Heart and Lung, Salvatore Maugeri Foundation, IRCCS, Veruno, Italy Background: Increased numbers of activated neutrophils have ...

Background The Quality of Life-Bronchiectasis (QOL-B), a self-administered, patient-reported outcome measure assessing symptoms, functioning and health-related quality of life for patients with ...

Inflammation in preschool cystic fibrosis is of mixed phenotype, extends beyond the lung and is differentially modified by CFTR modulators ...

Lung Function and Sleep Department, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, (New) Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to Dr Jennie Gane, Lung Function and Sleep ...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes improve the health of patients disabled by lung disease but their cost effectiveness is unproved. We undertook a cost/utility analysis in conjunction ...