Background: Inhalation of hypertonic or even isotonic saline during sputum induction may cause bronchospasm in susceptible patients with asthma, despite premedication with 400 µg inhaled salbutamol ...

Dr JT Murchison, Department of Clinical Imaging, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh. EH3 9YW, UK. The computed tomographic (CT) pulmonary angiogram appearances of acute right ...

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Antileukotriene drugs are new therapeutic agents that have recently been approved for the treatment of asthma. Several cases of eosinophilic conditions including Churg-Strauss syndrome have been ...

Correspondence to Dr Chuan Tai Foo, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK; chuantai.foo{at}gmail.com ...

3 Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China Background Dyslipidaemia is an intermediary exacerbation factor for various ...

Background Management of solitary pulmonary nodules (SPNs) depends critically on the pre-test probability of malignancy. Several quantitative prediction models have been developed using clinical and ...

2 Department of Experimental Medicine, Human Physiology Unit, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy 3 Department of Anatomy and Physiology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy Skeletal muscles are ...

3 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Mater Adult Hospital, Brisbane, Australia Correspondence to: Ms S Seeney, University Department of Medicine, Mater Adult Hospital, South Brisbane, Australia 4101; ...

Introduction Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life limiting genetic condition which occurs due to mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene (CFTR). Absence of functional CFTR ...

Correspondence to Dr Ravi Punwani, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Down's Road, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5PT, UK; ravi.punwani{at}rmh.nhs.uk This randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study ...

Pulmonary Rehabilitation Research Group, Department of Respiratory Medicine and Thoracic Surgery, Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK Background: The ...