Background Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is the cornerstone of non-pharmacological treatment for chronic obstructive ...

Macrolide therapy is an established and effective treatment for selected patients with chronic obstructive airways diseases ...

An 81-year-old woman with a history of diabetes mellitus and angina underwent chest CT after an abnormal chest radiograph ...

A 71-year-old man was admitted with presumed pneumonia. He was previously independent, had never smoked and had no history of ...

Background Emerging evidence suggests that lung function decline may be linked to cardiovascular disease (CVD), but this has ...

A 62-year-old man with a history of systemic Amyloid light-chain (AL) amyloidosis in prior haematological remission presented with progressive dyspnoea and non-productive cough. He denied haemoptysis, ...

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A 65-year-old male, who does not smoke, with a history of right lower lobectomy for carcinoid tumour 15 years prior, was referred for persistent, unexplained cough over 12 months. This was ...

Lung volume reduction procedures are an established evidence-based aspect of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is increasingly recognised as a systemic disease in which comorbidities substantially shape prognosis.1 Cardiovascular disease is among its most ...

The search for an effective drug therapy for obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) has long been driven by a familiar clinical reality: although positive airway pressure (PAP) remains highly efficacious, ...

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