Superseded By 2013 Guideline: British Thoracic Society Guidelines on Diagnostic Flexible Bronchoscopy. Thorax 2001 Feb; 56(Suppl 1): 1–21.

1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Alfred Hospital and Monash University Medical School, Melbourne 3181, Australia 2 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Alfred Hospital and Monash ...

Hunter Medical Research Institute, Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW, Australia Correspondence to: Dr P G Gibson Hunter Medical Research Institute, ...

Rationale Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with systemic inflammation and cardiovascular disease. Interaction between inflammatory cells and activated platelets is important ...

1 Respiratory Research Unit, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Waikato Hospital, New Zealand 2 Department of Anaesthesia, Waikato Hospital, New Zealand 3 Department of General Medicine, Waikato ...

1 Sir James Spence Institute of Child Health, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, UK 2 Department of Radiology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7DN, UK 3 Department of ...

1 Department of Pathology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 2 Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia and Head, Respiratory Division, St Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, ...

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 ...

1 Division of Paediatric Respirology and Department of Physiotherapy, Cystic Fibrosis Clinic, BC Children's Hospital and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2 Division ...

5 Genentech Inc. (a Member of the Roche Group), South San Francisco, California, USA Correspondence to Dr Karl Yen, Genentech Inc, 1 DNA Drive, South San Francisco, CA 94080-4990, USA; ...

Background: Over 38 000 new cases of lung cancer occur each year in the UK. Most are diagnosed after initial presentation to primary care, but the relative importance of the various clinical features ...

Background: Caffeine is known to inhibit phosphodiesterases, to mobilise intracellular calcium, and to act as an antagonist at adenosine receptors, all of which can potentially alter nitric oxide (NO) ...