Objective: A study was undertaken to estimate the cost-effectiveness of using continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in the management of patients with severe obstructive sleep apnoea/hypopnoea ...

2 Institute of Clinical Medicine, Akershus University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 3 Department of Radiology, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway Correspondence to Dr Arne ...

1 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Services, Evangelismos Hospital, “M Simou and G P Livanos Laboratories”, Athens, Greece 2 ...

S Baudouin, S Blumenthal, B Cooper, C Davidson, A Davison, M Elliot, W Kinnear (Chairman), R Paton, E Sawicka, L Turner (Secretary) Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) refers to the provision of ...

Background Reports of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) use in clinical practice reveal higher mortality rates than in corresponding randomised clinical trials. Aim To explore factors related to chronic ...

Correspondence to Dr Minal S Kale, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; minal.kale{at}mountsinai.org ...

a Inflammation Research Unit, School of Pathology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2052, b Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ...

Background Prior work suggests different interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) that share the radiological usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) pattern have an overall worse prognosis. However, ...

Rationale The most common antibiotic used to treat people with cystic fibrosis (PWCF) is inhaled tobramycin, administered as maintenance therapy for chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections.

1 Centre for Infection and Immunity, Queen's University of Belfast, UK 2 Department of Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, Institute for Lung Health, University of Leicester, UK Introduction ...

Introduction and objectives Inhalers are widely used in the treatment of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). For patients to gain maximum benefit they need to be educated by ...

In the nineteenth century, it was recognised that acute attacks of chronic bronchitis were harmful. 140 years later, it is clearer than ever that exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...