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Blood culture bottle culture of pleural fluid in pleural infection

2 Department of Medical Microbiology, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK 3 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, UK 4 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Southmead ...
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Sex-based differences in effectiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitors in the treatment of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: systematic review and meta-anal…

Background Sex-based differences in immune response are well established, but whether men and women derive comparable benefit ...
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Maintaining the benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD: a SPACE to fill

Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes, typically 8 weeks or longer in duration, deliver patient-tailored therapies including but not limited to exercise training, education and behaviour change to ...
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At-risk registers integrated into primary care to stop asthma crises in the UK: cluster randomised controlled trial with economic evaluation

Background A regional trial indicated that implementing at-risk asthma registers in primary care could reduce hospital ...
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Chronic cough: from a complex dysfunction of the neurological circuit to the production of persistent cough

Chronic cough or cough that lasts more than 8 weeks, once a chest x-ray and spirometry are confirmed normal, is caused by an alteration in a section of the route between peripheral receptors, mainly ...
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A clinical approach to the use of methotrexate for sarcoidosis

Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267-0564, USA Dr R P Baughman. If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...
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Survival of patients with small cell lung cancer undergoing lung resection in England, 1998–2009

3 The Academic Division of Thoracic Surgery, The Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK 4 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK 5 Respiratory Medicine Unit, ...
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NOX4/NADPH oxidase expression is increased in pulmonary fibroblasts from patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and mediates TGFβ1-induced fibroblast differentiation into ...

Background Persistence of myofibroblasts is believed to contribute to the development of fibrosis in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Transforming growth factor β1 (TGFβ1) irreversibly converts ...
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Inhaled corticosteroid withdrawal and mortality rate in trials of triple therapy inhalers for COPD

The Efficacy and Safety of Triple Therapy in Obstructive Lung Disease (ETHOS) and Informing the Pathway of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Treatment (IMPACT) trials have been interpreted ...
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Design of the Subpopulations and Intermediate Outcomes in COPD Study (SPIROMICS)

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 ...
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Use of inhaled corticosteroids and the risk of hospitalisation for pneumonia in children with asthma: a nationwide cohort study

Correspondence to Mr Karl-Hermann Sielinou Kamgang, Karolinska Institute Department of Medicine Solna, solna, Sweden; karlhermann.sielinou.kamgang{at}ki.se Background The potential association between ...
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Omics approaches to bronchopulmonary dysplasia: a first step in the right direction?

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