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A structural and metabolic framework for classifying pre-clinical tuberculosis infection phenotypes using 18F-FDG PET-CT: a prospective cohort analysis following M. tuberculosis exposure ...

The British Thoracic Society (BTS) guideline for the management of adults with community acquired pneumonia (CAP) published in 2009 was compared with the 2014 National Institute for Health and Care ...

2 Research Institute of Clinical Medicine of Chonbuk National University, Biomedical Research Institute of Chonbuk National University Hospital, Jeonju, South Korea Background Respiratory fungal ...

A technique of combined general and topical anaesthesia is described involving spontaneous ventilation. Patients aged 46 to 76 were examined in this way for periods varying between 5 and 25 minutes.

Despite intensive hydatid control measures in New Zealand, hepatopulmonary fistula resulting from infection by the echinococcus granulosus still occurs. Although the patients may quickly become ...

Background: Corticosteroids are routinely used in patients with pulmonary fibrosis. The timing for initiation of treatment is likely to be crucial for corticosteroids to exert an antifibrotic effect.

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne. Bacillus cereus is rarely a pulmonary pathogen but may cause pneumonia in immunocompromised patients. A patient with ...

1 Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, and Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada 2 ...

Background The current diagnostic delay of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) after pulmonary embolism (PE) is unacceptably long, causing loss of quality-adjusted life years and ...

1 Department of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences, King's College London, London, UK 2 Department of Community Health Sciences, St George's, University of London, London, UK 3 Queen Mary ...

BACKGROUND To obtain insight into the mechanisms of tissue injury in lung disease due to Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS), the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) cell profile and the levels in the BAL fluid of ...