Community-based evaluation of immigrant tuberculosis screening using interferon γ release assays and tuberculin skin testing:...
This is the first three-way assessment of different screening methods for LTBI in recent immigrants which provides comparative estimates of test performance and positivity stratified by demographic factors and risk factors for LTBI. Consequently we have been able to evaluate, using a decision-analysis model, the cost effectiveness of screening with port-of-arrival CXRs and for LTBI. Our analysis reveals that UK policy could be modified by removing the current requirement for CXR on arrival and concentrating on LTBI testing using single-step IGRA testing targeted at adult immigrants arriving from countries with moderate TB incidence (rather than from countries with TB incidence ,40/100 000 as recommended currently).10 In this cohort the proportion positive by TST (30.3%; 36.7% with 10 mm cut-off) was significantly higher than with QFN-GIT (16.6%) or T-SPOT.TB (22.5%). Previous studies have assessed LTBI prevalence in immigrants with TST and found that positivity varies from 26% to 72% depending ...
Acute and sustained increase in endothelial biomarkers in COVID-19 | Thorax
pneumonia. This article is made freely available for personal use in accordance with BMJs website terms and conditions for the ...
Differentiation of bacterial and viral pneumonia in children | Thorax
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Differentiation of bacterial and viral pneumonia in children | Thorax
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Sputum microbiome profiling in COPD: beyond singular pathogen detection | Thorax
Community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization among U.S. adults. N Engl J Med 2015;373:415-27.doi:10.1056/ ... Respiratory viral infection-induced microbiome alterations and secondary bacterial pneumonia. Front Immunol 2018;9:2640.doi: ...
Patient outcomes after hospitalisation with COVID-19 and implications for follow-up: results from a prospective UK cohort |...
Respiratory follow-up of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. Thorax 2020;75:1009-16.doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-215314 pmid:http ...
Circulating interleukin 6 and interleukin 10 in community acquired pneumonia | Thorax
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Inhaled corticosteroids in COPD and the risk of serious pneumonia | Thorax
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Ectopic respiratory epithelial cell differentiation in bronchiolised distal airspaces in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis | Thorax
Epithelial stress and apoptosis underlie Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome-associated interstitial pneumonia. Am J Respir Crit Care Med ... Histopathological studies of IPF lungs reveal the typical usual interstitial pneumonia pattern, with epithelial hyperplasia ... Pathologic and radiologic differences between idiopathic and collagen vascular disease-related usual interstitial pneumonia. ... Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis: differentiation from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and nonspecific interstitial pneumonia ...
Statin treatment and reduced risk of pneumonia in patients with diabetes | Thorax
Because of an increased risk of pneumonia in patients with diabetes, we assessed the effects of statin use on the occurrence of ... A case-control study was performed with cases defined as patients with a first recorded diagnosis of pneumonia. For each case ... Conclusions: The use of statins is associated with a considerable reduction in the risk of pneumonia in diabetic patients. In ... treatment with statins was associated with a significant reduction in the risk of pneumonia (adjusted OR 0.49, 95% CI 0.35 to ...
Mesenchymal stromal cells: a novel therapy for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? | Thorax
Mesenchymal stem cells enhance survival and bacterial clearance in murine Escherichia coli pneumonia. Thorax 2012;67:533-9.doi: ...
Survival analysis from the INCREASE study in PH-ILD: evaluating the impact of treatment crossover on overall mortality | Thorax
Riociguat for idiopathic interstitial pneumonia-associated pulmonary hypertension: the randomized RISE-IIP study. Lancet Respir ...
Diagnostic importance of pulmonary interleukin-1β and interleukin-8 in ventilator-associated pneumonia | Thorax
Diagnostic importance of pulmonary interleukin-1β and interleukin-8 in ventilator-associated pneumonia ... Diagnostic importance of pulmonary interleukin-1β and interleukin-8 in ventilator-associated pneumonia ... Diagnostic importance of pulmonary interleukin-1β and interleukin-8 in ventilator-associated pneumonia ...
Short term improvement in exercise capacity and symptoms following exercise training in interstitial lung disease | Thorax
Four subjects had idiopathic interstitial pneumonias other than IPF (non-specific interstitial pneumonia, cryptogenic ... Prognostic value of desaturation during a 6-minute walk test in idiopathic interstitial pneumonia. Am J Respir Crit Care Med ... Of these, 12 subjects had a confirmed pattern of usual interstitial pneumonia on open or thorascopic lung biopsy and the ... organising pneumonia). Of the remaining subjects, 14 had diffuse parenchymal lung disease of known cause (collagen vascular ...
The clinical spectrum of pulmonary aspergillosis | Thorax
An autopsy case of Aspergillus pneumonia after inhalation of a great deal of dust in a mushroom factory]. Nihon Kokyuki Gakkai ... Acute Aspergillus pneumonia associated with mouldy tree bark-chippings, complicated by anti-glomerular basement membrane ... The picture is that of a severe interstitial pneumonia, or miliary type picture but cavitation may develop. This clinical ...
Is it time to change the approach to oxygen therapy in the breathless patient? | Thorax
His pneumonia worsens, with right to left intrapulmonary shunting of blood increasing by 1% every 6 min. ... A 30-year-old patient with community acquired pneumonia presents with a CURB-65 severity score of 1, with no confusion, urea ...
Time to first antibiotic and mortality in adults hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia: a matched-propensity analysis ...
Pneumonia. Introduction. The British Thoracic Society (BTS) community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) guideline and the National ... Pneumonia: diagnosis and management of community- and hospital-acquired pneumonia in adults. London: National Clinical ... BTS guidelines for the management of community acquired pneumonia in adults; an update 2009. Thorax 2009;64(Suppl III):iii1-55 ... Pneumonia severity was low (CURB65 score ≤1), moderate (CURB65 score=2) and high (CURB65 score ≥3) in 6045 (44.0%), 4023 (29.3 ...
Association of clinically significant obstructive sleep apnoea with risks of contracting COVID-19 and serious COVID-19...
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and outcomes from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia: a systematic review and meta- ... higher risk of pneumonia via microaspiration, acute respiratory distress syndrome and thromboembolic phenomena associated with ...
Chronic Burkholderia cepaciabronchiectasis in a non-cystic fibrosis individual | Thorax
There are rare case reports of community acquiredB cepacia pneumonia occurring in previously healthy individuals12 but there ... In non-cystic fibrosis patients B cepacia pneumonia is characteristically a hospital acquired infection in the intubated or ...
Development and validity testing of an IPF-specific version of the St George's Respiratory Questionnaire | Thorax
The prognostic significance of the histologic pattern of interstitial pneumonia in patients presenting with the clinical entity ...
Exercise training and inspiratory muscle training in patients with bronchiectasis | Thorax
In the remaining nine the disease was attributed to a past childhood illness including pneumonia (n = 5) and whooping cough (n ...
The impact of benzodiazepines on occurrence of pneumonia and mortality from pneumonia: a nested case-control and survival...
The impact of benzodiazepines on occurrence of pneumonia and mortality from pneumonia: a nested case-control and survival ... The impact of benzodiazepines on occurrence of pneumonia and mortality from pneumonia: a nested case-control and survival ...
The pathology of butterfly densities in uraemia | Thorax
... uraemic pneumonia). By means of whole lung sections haemorrhagic forms of uraemic pneumonia associated with hypertensive heart ...
Ferritin, finger clubbing, and lung disease. | Thorax
Ferritin levels were raised in patients with acute pneumonias but did not correlate with the total white cell count or ...
Spirometric findings as predictors of survival | Thorax
... pneumonia, osteoporosis and even facial wrinkling. This impressive power of spirometry as a predictor of future health has led ...
Randomised controlled trial of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) for nocturnal hypoventilation in neuromuscular and chest wall...
... and one child had poor weight gain and developed pneumonia. ...
Lung function after preterm birth: development from mid-childhood to adulthood | Thorax
... childhood pneumonias,33 asthma34 and airway hyperresponsiveness35 may accelerate this process. These traits and exposures are ...