Environmental factors, here taken to include pollutants, lifestyle factors and behaviours, can play an important role in serious, chronic pathologies with large societal and economic costs, including ...
Objective To determine whether environmental control using nocturnal temperature controlled laminar airflow (TLA) treatment could improve the quality of life of patients with persistent atopic asthma.
Background The increasing number of patients treated by long-term non-invasive ventilation (NIV) challenges the capacity of ...
The rationale for subphenotyping acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) arises from its marked biological and clinical ...
Objectives In patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), severe exacerbations (ECOPDs) impose significant morbidity and mortality. Current guidelines emphasise using ECOPD history to ...
BACKGROUND An obstructive defect is usual in bronchiectasis, but the pathophysiological basis of airflow obstruction remains uncertain. High resolution computed tomographic (CT) scanning now allows ...
3 Dr von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig Maximilians University, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munchen, Germany Rationale Asthma is characterised by inflammation and ...
BACKGROUND A prospective multicentre study was undertaken to compare the efficacy of intravenous ciprofloxacin or imipenem in the treatment of severe nosocomial pneumonia requiring mechanical ...