BACKGROUND Acute lower respiratory tract illness in previously well adults is usually labelled as acute bronchitis and treated with antibiotics without establishing the aetiology. Viral infection is ...

2 Centre for Adolescent Health and Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria 3052, and Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ...

Division of Respiratory Medicine, School of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Hucknall Road, Nottingham NG5 1 PB, UK BACKGROUND The main adverse effects of ...

Introduction and objectives Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is associated with increased pulmonary vascular permeability. In the lung, transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 (TRPV4), a ...

1 Research Department of Infection and Population Health, University College London, London, UK 2 Tuberculosis Research Unit, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK ...

Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK Dr Sophie D West, Sleep Unit, Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Churchill Hospital, Old Road, Oxford OX3 ...

Dr G G Lestringant, Division of Dermatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tawam Hospital, PO Box 15258, Al Ain, United Arab Emiratesgglest{at}emirates.net.ae Dyskeratosis congenita (DC) is a rare ...

Background Cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease is defined by large numbers of neutrophils and associated damaging products in the airway. Delayed neutrophil apoptosis is described in CF although it is ...

Otago and Canterbury Respiratory Research Groups, Dunedin and Christchurch Schools of Medicine, University of Otago Medical School, New Zealand Dr D R Taylor, Department of Medicine, Dunedin School of ...

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

1 Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Background Recently, several proteins of the extracellular matrix have been characterised as active contributors to ...