Objective Long-term azithromycin treatment effectively prevents acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

Introduction and Objectives Approximately 1 in every 4100 people worldwide are born with oesophageal atresia ± tracheo-oesophageal fistula (OA/TOF). Whilst surgical correction is, in most cases, ...

Pulmonary rehabilitation has established itself as a vital and core therapy for people with chronic lung disease. Significant improvements are seen in several patient outcomes, for the thousands ...

Reduction of the risk of asthma attacks is a major goal of current asthma management. We propose to derive a risk scale predicting asthma attacks based on the blood eosinophil count and exhaled nitric ...

Methods TRIVERSYTI is an ongoing phase III multi-centre (China, South Korea and Taiwan), randomized, parallel group trial comparing a 24-week treatment with (BDP/FF/GB) 100/6/12.5 µg pMDI, 2 puffs bid ...

Background and objectives IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a multi-system fibro-inflammatory disorder originally described in association with autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP), usually but not always in ...

Method Adults with a first-recorded code for breathlessness (index date) and subsequent coded diagnosis between 2007 and 2017 were included from a UK primary care database (CPRD-GOLD). Cox regression ...

Background Smoking has been considered an important risk factor for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) incidence. However, there are no population-based large-scale studies demonstrating the effects ...

Introduction Despite improvements in pulmonary function, physical activity (PA) levels remain significantly lower than the general population, even at 1 year following lung transplantation (LTx).

Introduction Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (CRSwNP) affects a significant proportion of people with severe asthma (SA). Despite the effectiveness of anti-IL5/5R therapies in the ...

Introduction The benefits achieved during pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) are known to decline 6–12 months after the initial programme. There is no consensus on the best maintenance strategy.1 Previous ...

Monitoring, precautions and complications All patients undergoing bronchoscopy should have heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure and oxygen saturation recorded repeatedly, including before, ...