We quantified the proportion of diagnoses of pulmonary fibrosis (PF) among 25 136 people with lung cancer and 250 583 matched ...

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne. Bacillus cereus is rarely a pulmonary pathogen but may cause pneumonia in immunocompromised patients. A patient with ...

1 Department of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences, King's College London, London, UK 2 Department of Community Health Sciences, St George's, University of London, London, UK 3 Queen Mary ...

Background Previous studies have reported an association between warm temperature and asthma hospitalisation. They have reported different sex-related and age-related vulnerabilities; nevertheless, ...

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Introduction Shift work causes misalignment between internal circadian time and the external light/dark cycle and is associated with metabolic disorders and cancer. Approximately 20% of the working ...

Dr J K Baillie, Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 54 Little France Drive, Edinburgh EH16 5SA, UK; j.k.baillie{at}altitude.org If you wish to ...

Department of Respiratory Medicine, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK Correspondence to: Dr P K Plant, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Level 7, Gledhow Wing, St James’s University ...

Background A usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) pattern of lung injury is a key feature of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and is also observed in up to 40% of individuals with rheumatoid ...

Two cases of an acute chest illness occurring in mushroom workers are described. In one patient, who was severely ill, a lung biopsy was obtained which showed a pattern of alveolitis and interstitial ...

Because there is no `ideal' method for the complete correction of some of the more complex congenital cardiac abnormalities, a technique of making a composite graft of autologous fascia lata has been ...