News

Thorax3d
Associations of interstitial lung disease subtype and CT pattern with lung function and survival
Background Prior work suggests different interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) that share the radiological usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) pattern have an overall worse prognosis. However, ...
thorax.bmj22h
Non-invasive ventilation in acute respiratory failure
S Baudouin, S Blumenthal, B Cooper, C Davidson, A Davison, M Elliot, W Kinnear (Chairman), R Paton, E Sawicka, L Turner (Secretary) Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) refers to the provision of ...
thorax.bmj5d
Bacterial multiplex polymerase chain reaction tests for the diagnosis and management of pneumonia: ready for prime time?
Background The diagnosis and management of pneumonia is often challenging due to its overlapping clinical presentations with other respiratory illnesses, low pathogen identification rates, and slow ...
thorax.bmj2d
Lung cancer screening provides an opportunity for early diagnosis and treatment of interstitial lung disease
Interstitial lung abnormalities (ILA) can be incidentally detected in patients undergoing low-dose CT screening for lung cancer. In this retrospective study, we explore the downstream impact of ILA ...
thorax.bmj3d
Respiratory disease caused by synthetic fibres: a new occupational disease.
Seven patients exposed to the inhalation of synthetic fibres presented with various bronchopulmonary diseases, such as asthma, extrinsic allergic alveolitis, chronic bronchitis with bronchiectasis, ...
thorax.bmj6d
Occupational and environmental risk factors for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in Australia: case–control study
Correspondence to Professor Michael J Abramson, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia; michael.abramson{at}monash.edu Introduction ...
thorax.bmj4d
Estimating individual treatment effects on COPD exacerbations by causal machine learning on randomised controlled trials
Correspondence to Professor Wim Janssens, Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases and Thoracic Surgery (BREATHE), KU Leuven, Leuven 3000, Belgium; wim.janssens{at}uzleuven.be Rationale Estimating the ...
thorax.bmj3d
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV): a scourge from infancy to old age
Correspondence to Prof Rosalind Smyth, Great Ormond Street Institute for Child Health, UCL, London EH16 4TJ, UK; rosalind.smyth{at}ucl.ac.uk Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most common single ...
thorax.bmj6d
Management of a malignant pleural effusion: British Thoracic Society pleural disease guideline 2010
If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be ...
thorax.bmj1d
Pulmonary sarcoidosis and the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
State University of New York - Health Science Center at Brooklyn & Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA Correspondence to: Dr L S Efferen, Department of Medicine, Long Island Jewish ...
thorax.bmj6d
Association between COPD exacerbations and lung function decline during maintenance therapy
Correspondence to Professor David B Price, Academic Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK; dprice{at}opri.sg Background Little is known about the impact of exacerbations on COPD ...
thorax.bmj6d
Bronchoscopic needle-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (nCLE) as a real-time detection tool for peripheral lung cancer
Correspondence to Professor Jouke T Annema, Respiratory Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands; j.t.annema{at}amsterdamumc.nl Introduction Diagnosing ...