4 Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Background Muscle wasting and weakness (sarcopenia) are commonly associated with COPD causing frailty and reduced quality of life. The ...

The epidemiology of exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is reviewed with particular reference to the definition, frequency, time course, natural history and seasonality, and ...

A 64-year-old male retired firefighter and never-smoker presented to the ventilation team with a 6-month history of ...

Associations of pulmonary microvascular blood volume with per cent emphysema and CT emphysema subtypes in the community: the MESA Lung study ...

Correspondence to Dr Charlotte Summers, Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, Box 93, Level 4, Addenbrooke's Hospital, CUHNHSFT, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 OQQ, UK; ...

We present the case of a 45-year-old man who reported 2 years of cough and expectoration and 1 year of dyspnoea. He had a ...

"Science means constantly walking a tight rope" Heinrich Rohrer, physicist, 1933. Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the leading cause of death from infectious disease worldwide and ...

Academic Unit of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Free & University College Medical School, London, UK Correspondence to: Dr J R Hurst Academic Unit of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Free & University College ...

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 ...

7 Department of Radiology, Royal Darwin Hospital, Northern Territory, Australia 8 Radiology Department, Royal Adelaide Hospital, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 9 National Institute of Health ...