Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science developed in the 1950s to imitate the human ability for solving complex problems. Currently, it is widely applied in various fields of ...

Background Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a rapidly evolving condition. Dynamic assessments using patient trajectories may provide novel insights into disease heterogeneity. The primary ...

Objectives Infliximab, an anti-TNF agent, is used to treat sarcoidosis that does not respond to corticosteroids or second-line agents. The efficacy of other anti-TNF agents, non-TNF biologics and ...

BACKGROUND: Many patients with chronic obstructive lung disease show increased airways responsiveness to histamine. We investigated the hypothesis that increased airways responsiveness predicts the ...

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 ...

1 Accident and Emergency Medicine Academic Unit, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong 2 Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong ...

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, ...

1 Herlev-Gentofte University Hospital, Medical Department O, Respiratory Section; Herlev-Gentofte University Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen, Denmark 2 The Copenhagen Male Study ...

4 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia Correspondence to: Dr D Breen, Intensive Care Unit, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Missenden Road, Camperdown, NSW ...

Background: There is little previous information of the effects of size fractioned particulate air pollution and source specific fine particles (PM 2.5; <2.5 μm) on asthma and chronic obstructive ...

Correspondence to Dr Audrey Winter, Department of Radiological Sciences, Medical Imaging Informatics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; audrey.winter89{at}gmail.com Introduction We ...