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 ...

Atmospheric fog plays some role in the production of symptoms in chronic bronchitis, but hitherto the blame has rested with pollutants rather than with the water droplet content itself. An ...

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In lungs from 18 children aged between birth and 11 years the development of the branching pattern and structure of the pulmonary arteries, particularly the intralobular and intra-acinar, has been ...

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

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 ...

1 King's College London, Department of Asthma, Allergy and Respiratory Science, London, UK 2 King's College Hospital, Department of Respiratory Medicine, London, UK 3 National Heart and Lung Institute ...

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