Introduction and Objectives Cardiac arrhythmias are regularly found in patients with COPD, with higher frequencies reported during exacerbations. We wished to examine the impact of tachycardia and new ...

aDepartment of Pulmonary and Mediastinal Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 6825 N W 16th Street, Bld 54, Rm M003B, Washington, DC 20306-6000, USA ...

Introduction Eosinophils are critical in allergic disorders, and promoting eosinophil death effectively attenuates allergic airway inflammation. Ferroptosis is a recently described novel form of cell ...

Background Pulmonary microvasculature alterations are implicated in emphysema pathogenesis, but the association between ...

3 Department of Clinical Sciences, Southmead Hospital, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Correspondence to Nick Maskell, Academic Respiratory Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Southmead Hospital ...

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BACKGROUND Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes improve the health of patients disabled by lung disease but their cost effectiveness is unproved. We undertook a cost/utility analysis in conjunction ...

Most physicians believe they do more good than harm, and these duties of helping and not harming the patient are rooted in the Hippocratic oath, the good Samaritan tradition, and the Order of the ...

The lungs are exposed to a range of environmental toxins (including cigarette smoke, air pollution, asbestos) and pathogens (bacterial, viral and fungal), and most respiratory diseases are associated ...

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Background The Clinical COPD Questionnaire (CCQ) is a simple 10-item, health-related quality of life questionnaire (HRQoL) with good psychometric properties. However, little data exists regarding the ...