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P27 Real world immunogenicity of benralizumab in asthma using a specific GloBody immunoassay
Background Despite biomarker-guided initiation, non- or loss of response to biologic therapy occurs in a minority of patients with severe asthma. In cases of treatment failure, it is important to ...
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Management of opportunist mycobacterial infections: Joint Tuberculosis Committee guidelines 1999
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Systemic elastin degradation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Background Development of emphysema and vascular stiffness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may be due to a common mechanism of susceptibility to pulmonary and systemic elastin ...
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Managing passengers with respiratory disease planning air travel: British Thoracic Society recommendations
Air Travel Working Party: Dr R K Coker (chair), Dr D A R Boldy, Dr R Buchdahl, Mr D Cramer, Professor D Denison, Wing Commander D P Gradwell, Professor J M B Hughes, Dr J A Innes, Dr A O C Johnson, Dr ...
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Minimum clinically important improvement for the incremental shuttle walking test
Pulmonary Rehabilitation Research Group, Department of Respiratory Medicine and Thoracic Surgery, Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK Background: The ...
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Residual sleepiness and impaired alertness in treated obstructive sleep apnoea: role of hypoxic burden and sleep fragmentation
The pathophysiology of residual sleepiness in treated obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) remains poorly understood. Animal models ...
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Associations of pulmonary microvascular blood volume with per cent emphysema and CT emphysema subtypes in the community: the MESA Lung study ...
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Prognostic evaluation of COPD patients: GOLD 2011 versus BODE and the COPD comorbidity index COTE
Background The Global Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 2011 revision recommends the multidimensional assessment of COPD including comorbidities and has developed a ...
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Association between automatic AI-based quantification of airway-occlusive mucus plugs and all-cause mortality in patients with COPD
In this cohort study involving 9399 current and former smokers from the Genetic Epidemiology of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease study, we assessed the relationship between artificial ...
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Interventions to improve symptoms and quality of life of patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease: a systematic review of the literature
1 Department of Palliative Medicine, Royal Marsden and Royal Brompton NHS Foundation Trusts, London, UK 2 Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King's College London, Cicely ...
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Unilateral post-tuberculous lung destruction: the left bronchus syndrome.
In a prospective study of 13 patients requiring pneumonectomy for unilateral post-tuberculous lung destruction the left side was found to be affected in 12. Review of a further 172 cases showed the ...
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Relationship between lung function impairment and incidence or recurrence of cardiovascular events in a middle-aged cohort
Introduction: Lung function impairment may be a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) events. Objective: To determine the relationship between the severity of airflow obstruction based on ...