Department of Maternal and Child Health, Federal University of Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Brazil Dr L Zhang, Department of Maternal and child Health, Federal University of Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Brazil ...

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 ...

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, 900 Camino de Salud, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA Dr D B ...

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 ...

1 Department of Paediatrics, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK 2 Department of Paediatrics, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK If you wish to reuse any ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ten patients are presented with tumours complying with the criteria established by the World Health Organization for `mixed tumours of the lung'. A slowly growing intrabronchial neoplasm ...

BACKGROUND Exercise training is being promoted increasingly for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Many of these patients experience exercise related arterial desaturation but ...