Background Critical care medicine has historically relied on syndromic diagnoses such as sepsis, acute respiratory distress ...

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Introduction and objectives Airway sensory nerves involved in the cough reflex may be mediated by adenosine triphosphate (ATP) agonism of P2X purinoceptor 3 (P2X3) receptors. Transient receptor ...

Background Owing to discrepancies in methodologies and how idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is diagnosed it is challenging to establish a consistent understanding of the disease burden In the UK, ...

Background Malignant pleural effusion (MPE) causes debilitating breathlessness and predicting survival is challenging. This study aimed to obtain contemporary data on survival by underlying tumour ...

Background Relapse continues to place significant burden on patients and tuberculosis (TB) programmes worldwide. We aimed to determine clinical and microbiological factors associated with relapse in ...

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1 Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, Guy’s and St.Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Since the Guideline, there is deeper understanding of referral characteristics, outcome measures, patient ...

Introduction Chest binders are garments used for compression of breast tissue by transgender individuals. Deleterious consequences of binder reported include shortness of breath with associated ...

4 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia Correspondence to: Dr D Breen, Intensive Care Unit, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Missenden Road, Camperdown, NSW ...

Background: There is little previous information of the effects of size fractioned particulate air pollution and source specific fine particles (PM 2.5; <2.5 μm) on asthma and chronic obstructive ...