A pillar of the WHO End TB Strategy is targeted latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) testing to identify persons who would benefit from TB preventive treatment (TPT).1 The WHO recommends the ...

Hypoxaemia. Patients should be monitored by continuous pulse oximetry during bronchoscopy. (Grade C) Oxygen supplementation should be used when desaturation is significant (pulse oximeter oxygen ...

Diagnosis of mediastinal/hilar lymph nodes and peribronchial masses: Conventional transbronchial fine needle aspiration (TBNA) B: Conventional transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) is a safe ...

Interstitial lung abnormalities, when present in members of undiagnosed family members recruited on the basis of familial interstitial pneumonia, or in undiagnosed research participants, have been ...

Introduction Parkin (Park2), an E3 ubiquitin ligase, is critical to maintain mitochondrial function by regulating mitochondrial biogenesis and degradation (mitophagy), but recent evidence suggests the ...

This British Thoracic Society (BTS) Clinical Statement addresses the diagnosis, evaluation and management of respiratory problems in athletic individuals. The overall recommendations issued in this ...

Introduction This study aimed to construct artificial intelligence models based on thoracic CT images to perform segmentation and classification of benign pleural effusion (BPE) and malignant pleural ...

Lung cancer outcomes have improved only marginally over the last 40 years and remain dismally poor in comparison to most other cancers: only 17.7% of women and 12.9% of men in the UK survive after ...

Background We previously reported that microvesicles (MVs) released by human mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) were as effective as the cells themselves in both Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide and live ...

We report results from the second annual screening round (T1) of Manchester’s ‘Lung Health Check’ pilot of community-based lung cancer screening in deprived areas (undertaken June to August 2017).

Dynamic lung volumes (forced vital capacity, forced expiratory volume in 0·5 second and in 1·0 second), static lung volumes (total lung capacity, functional residual capacity, residual volume), and ...