Introduction People who smoke are a third more likely to be admitted to hospital than non-smokers. A disparity in smoking ...

Rationale Immunoglobulin A (IgA) deficiency, a rare, highly heritable trait, is associated with frequent pulmonary infections ...

Background Mobile health (mHealth) is a novel model of care that may overcome barriers to pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) ...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, Hôtel Dieu Hospital, Nantes, France 2 Department of Radiology, Hôtel Dieu Hospital, Nantes, France Correspondence to Professor Mohamed Hamidou, Department of ...

Fibroblastic foci—the cardinal feature of usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP)—are characterised by metaplastic alveolar epithelium overlying tufts of fibroblasts. UIP is further characterised by ...

Targeted lung cancer screening saves lives by shifting diagnosis to earlier stages, when curative treatment is more likely to succeed. To improve the efficiency of screening and minimise associated ...

1 The James Hogg iCAPTURE Center for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2 Department of Medicine (Pulmonary Division), University of British Columbia, Vancouver ...

a Academic Department of Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew’s and Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London Chest Hospital, London, UK, b Division of Physiological Medicine, St George’s ...

Background Conventional measures to evaluate COPD may fail to capture systemic problems, particularly musculoskeletal weakness and cardiovascular disease. Identifying these manifestations and ...

Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) remains a critical global public health challenge, and there is an urgent need to improve the diagnosis and management of post-TB lung disease (PTLD). We aimed to ...

Introduction Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPC) such as atelectasis and pneumonia are common following lung resection. PPCs have a significant clinical impact on postoperative morbidity and ...