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A 50-year-old man presented with morning stiffness and pain in the proximal interphalangeal joints of both hands. He denied systemic symptoms, including fever, night sweats, weight loss or fatigue and ...
Introduction There is an unmet need for a validated qualitative and quantitative tool to assess environmental exposures in patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD). This study aimed to develop ...
Background Ventilator-free days (VFDs), a composite endpoint combining survival and mechanical ventilation duration, are increasingly used in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) trials to ...
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1 Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Population and Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK 2 Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen ...
3 Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA 4 Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, New York, USA 5 Department of ...
Background High frequency chest wall oscillation (HFCWO) is standard treatment for airway clearance in the USA and has recently been introduced in the UK and Europe. There is little published research ...
Background Patients with the connective tissue disorder Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) often suffer from fatigue, excessive daytime sleepiness and impaired quality of life. Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA ...
Background Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) causes considerable morbidity and mortality in adults, particularly in the elderly. Methods Structured searches of PubMed were conducted to identify up-to ...
1 University Hospital Bergmannsheil, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pneumology, Allergology and Sleep Medicine, D-44789 Bochum, Germany 2 Ruhr-University Bochum, Experimental Pneumology, ...
2 Centre for Clinical Research, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway 3 Department of Thoracic Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway 4 Channing Laboratory and Pulmonary and ...