Background Acute type 2 respiratory failure (AT2RF) is the failure of ventilatory mechanism which results in hypercapnia(>6kPa). Current treatment is non-invasive ventilation(NIV) which has a high ...

Associations of pulmonary microvascular blood volume with per cent emphysema and CT emphysema subtypes in the community: the MESA Lung study ...

Background The Global Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 2011 revision recommends the multidimensional assessment of COPD including comorbidities and has developed a ...

Correspondence to Dr Sami O Simons, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Centre, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands; sami.simons{at}mumc.nl Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is ...

Department of Child Health, University of Leicester School of Medicine, Robert Kilpatrick Clinical Sciences Building, Leicester Royal Infirmary, P O Box 65, Leicester LE2 7LX, UK BACKGROUND The aim of ...

Correspondence to Dr Larissa Otero, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima 15102, Peru; larissa.otero{at}upch.pe Background A recurrent tuberculosis (TB) episode results from ...

Correspondence to Dr John Harvey, North Bristol Lung Centre, Southmead Hospital, Bristol BS10 5NB, UK; john.harvey{at}nbt.nhs.uk Secondary pneumothorax (SSP) is associated with underlying lung disease ...

Background It is current practice to use a single diagnostic sleep study in the diagnostic workup of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). However, a relevant night-to-night variability (NtNV) of ...

Interstitial Lung Disease Center, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, National Jewish Medical and Research Center and University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, ...

1 The MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Background Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an often fatal ...