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Tiotropium for stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a meta-analysis
Background: A systematic review was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of tiotropium, a long acting anticholinergic drug, on clinical events, symptom scales, pulmonary function, and adverse events in ...
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Validation and clinical implications of the IDSA/ATS minor criteria for severe community-acquired pneumonia
Professor T K Lim, Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119074; mdclimtk{at}nus.edu.sg ...
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COVID-19 pneumonitis and cystic lung disease, pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum
Correspondence to Dr Serenydd Everden, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Reading RG1 5AN, UK; serenydd.everden{at}googlemail.com A 57-year-old man with no ...
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Survival of Australian lung cancer patients and the impact of distance from and attendance at a thoracic specialist centre: a data linkage study
2 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to Elizabeth Tracey, The University of Sydney, Level 6 Chris O'Brien Lifehouse (C39Z), 119–143 Missenden Road, ...
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Indoor air pollution in developing countries and acute lower respiratory infections in children
BACKGROUND A critical review was conducted of the quantitative literature linking indoor air pollution from household use of biomass fuels with acute respiratory infections in young children, which is ...
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Acute respiratory failure secondary to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease treated in the intensive care unit: a long term follow up study
4 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia Correspondence to: Dr D Breen, Intensive Care Unit, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Missenden Road, Camperdown, NSW ...
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Bronchodilator reversibility testing in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Background: A limited or absent bronchodilator response is used to classify chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and can determine the treatment offered. The reliability of the recommended ...
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Two for one with split- or co-ventilation at the peak of the COVID-19 tsunami: is there any role for communal care when the resources for personalised medicine are exhausted?
Correspondence to Dr Jesse B Hall, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60615, USA; jhall{at}medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu Tonetti and colleagues, as well as ...
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Passive smoking and risk of adult asthma and COPD: an update
The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, 900 Camino de Salud, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA Dr D B ...
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Prospective comparison of three predictive rules for assessing severity of community-acquired pneumonia in Hong Kong
1 Accident and Emergency Medicine Academic Unit, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong 2 Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong ...
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Guidelines on the selection of patients with lung cancer for surgery
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