Method Adults with a first-recorded code for breathlessness (index date) and subsequent coded diagnosis between 2007 and 2017 were included from a UK primary care database (CPRD-GOLD). Cox regression ...

A pillar of the WHO End TB Strategy is targeted latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) testing to identify persons who would benefit from TB preventive treatment (TPT).1 The WHO recommends the ...

Background Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is characterised by damage to the epithelial layer, closely associated with the alveolar basement membrane (BM). We aimed to investigate how type IV ...

Objective To evaluate the surgical outcomes following neoadjuvant chemo-immunotherapy and surgery for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Methods Prospective analysis on all consecutive ...

We present the case of a 45-year-old man who reported 2 years of cough and expectoration and 1 year of dyspnoea. He had a history of dry nasal snuff inhalation 15 times/day for 10 years, worked as a ...

Pulmonary rehabilitation has established itself as a vital and core therapy for people with chronic lung disease. Significant improvements are seen in several patient outcomes, for the thousands ...

Results Data for 7135 patients included in the audit in England were extracted. Overall admission rates (proportion with at least one admission) were18.6% and 29.6% at 90 and 180 days respectively. At ...

Background Smoking has been considered an important risk factor for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) incidence. However, there are no population-based large-scale studies demonstrating the effects ...

Introduction Better patient selection for non-invasive ventilation (NIV), and time to NIV initiation, are national improvement objectives.1Treatment escalation planning (TEP) was also identified ...

Background It is current practice to use a single diagnostic sleep study in the diagnostic workup of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). However, a relevant night-to-night variability (NtNV) of ...

Results 34 patients had a trial of NCT. 25 patients passed the initial trial which was conducted in the SRC, trial failure was due to treatment intolerance or a drop in FEV1>15%. Of those who passed ...

Monitoring, precautions and complications All patients undergoing bronchoscopy should have heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure and oxygen saturation recorded repeatedly, including before, ...