Background: Clinical detection of structural narrowing of the upper airway may facilitate early recognition of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). To determine whether the craniofacial profile predicts ...
1 NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for North West London, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK 2 NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit of ...
Background Exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are characterised by increased dyspnoea, reduced quality of life and muscle weakness. Re-exacerbation and hospital admission ...
Rationale Several randomised controlled trials support the provision of early pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) following hospitalisation for acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...
Correspondence to British Thoracic Society, 17, Doughty Street, London WC1N 2PL, UK; bts{at}brit-thoracic.org.uk and Dr Charlotte E Bolton, Nottingham Respiratory Research Unit, University of ...
Correspondence to Dr Renat Shaykhiev, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York 10021, USA; res2003{at}med.cornell.edu Secretion of mucus into the airway lumen is a fundamental ...
Background Mucociliary clearance (MCC) is critical to lung health and is impaired in many diseases. The path of MCC may have an important impact on clearance but has never been rigorously studied. The ...
North West Lung Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK Dr J A Smith, Education and Research Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital, Southmoor Road, Manchester M23 ...
Correspondence to Dr Elizabeth Sapey, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; e.sapey{at}bham.ac.uk The current paper14 builds on these findings to ...
Breathlessness intervention services (BIS), which coach patients to self-manage breathlessness using non-pharmacological ...
Background Current guidelines for the evaluation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) do not recommend screening ...
Background The impact of delays to diagnosis for individuals presenting with chronic breathlessness is unknown. We ...
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