A 90-year-old man visited our hospital with a chief problem of haemoptysis lasting for a month. He had a medical history of bladder cancer, including transurethral resection, 10 years previously.

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 ...

Background: Chronic cough is a common condition which has a significant impact on quality of life. Assessment and management are hampered by the absence of well validated outcome measures. The ...

1 University of Western Australia, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Respiratory Medicine Department, Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia 2 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital: Western Australian ...

Correspondence to: A Price, Department of Oncology, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK; A.Price{at}ed.ac.uk Radiotherapy has a key role in curative ...

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Driving is a complex task involving distinct cognitive, perceptual, motor, and decision making skills. After placing the vehicle on the road, the driver must constantly survey the ever changing ...

Background Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a fatal condition involving remodelling of the pulmonary vessel wall leading to elevated pulmonary arterial pressure and eventually right heart ...

1 The First Clinical Medical School of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China 2 The Second Clinical Medical School of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China 3 ...

A structural and metabolic framework for classifying pre-clinical tuberculosis infection phenotypes using 18F-FDG PET-CT: a prospective cohort analysis following M. tuberculosis exposure ...

BACKGROUND: It is possible to measure nitric oxide (NO) levels in exhaled air. The absolute concentrations of exhaled NO obtained by separate workers in similar patient groups and normal subjects with ...

Dr J K Baillie, Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 54 Little France Drive, Edinburgh EH16 5SA, UK; j.k.baillie{at}altitude.org If you wish to ...