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Lung sequestration: report of seven cases and review of 540 published cases
We present an analysis of 400 intralobar and 133 extralobar sequestrations, six cases presenting intra- and extralobar sequestration simultaneously, five sequestrations of one whole lung, and two ...
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Epidemiology of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome in Chinese children: a two-phase community study
1 Department of Paediatrics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong 2 Department of Psychiatry, Shatin Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, ...
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P48 Pay to puff green: can NHS incentives change the prescribing practices?
Introduction and Objectives Metered Dose Inhalers (MDIs) account for 3% of NHS carbon emissions. In April 2022, NHS England introduced two indicators focussed on reducing avoidable carbon emissions ...
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Asthma exacerbations are associated with a decline in lung function: a longitudinal population-based study
Rationale Progressive lung function (LF) decline in patients with asthma contributes to worse outcomes. Asthma exacerbations are thought to contribute to this decline; however, evidence is limited ...
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Guidelines on the selection of patients with lung cancer for surgery
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P220 Chemoprophylaxis for latent tuberculosis in the UK: changing trends across three cohorts over 13 years
Introduction UK national guidance for screening for tuberculosis (TB) has changed over the years. This study retrospectively evaluated the shifts across three cohorts of latent TB cases managed over a ...
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P257 Understanding the effects on lung function of chest binder use in the transgender population
Introduction Chest binders are garments used for compression of breast tissue by transgender individuals. Deleterious consequences of binder reported include shortness of breath with associated ...
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P179 Relationship between pollution levels and outcomes of biological therapies among patients with severe asthma
Introduction Air pollution is associated with increased asthma-related admission rates (Lancet, 2014;383(9928):1581–92). The impact of pollution on outcomes of monoclonal antibody (MAb) therapy in ...
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Measurement of nasal potential difference in young children with an equivocal sweat test following newborn screening for cystic fibrosis
Background A challenging problem arising from cystic fibrosis (CF) newborn screening is the significant number of infants with hypertrypsinaemia (HIRT) with sweat chloride levels in the intermediate ...
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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 ...
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Genome-wide association study across five cohorts identifies five novel loci associated with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic lung condition with poor survival times. We previously published a genome-wide meta-analysis of IPF risk across three studies with independent ...
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Highly discordant T cell responses in individuals with recent exposure to household tuberculosis
DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, ...