Using the best available evidence and expert consensus, this document provides guidance for adverse effect monitoring in multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB). It includes recommendations for baseline tests ...

Background The diagnosis and management of pneumonia is often challenging due to its overlapping clinical presentations with other respiratory illnesses, low pathogen identification rates, and slow ...

Background Minimising hypoxaemia during submaximal walking tests has a positive effect on exercise capacity and dyspnoea in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) on long-term ...

Lung cancer screening (LCS) with low-dose CT has been proven to reduce lung cancer-specific mortality in high-risk individuals. However, there has been a lot of concern regarding false-positive scans ...

Background Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a progressive cardiopulmonary condition associated with increased morbidity and ...

In this issue of Thorax , Czepiel et al report the results of a double-blind randomised controlled trial of an oral agent, hymecromone, in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH).1 The authors ...

Introduction In Hong Kong, tuberculin skin test (TST) with a 15 mm cut-off was used at 0 and 3 months for contact screening, but half of future tuberculosis cases might be missed. Follow-on interferon ...

Background Owing to discrepancies in methodologies and how idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is diagnosed it is challenging to establish a consistent understanding of the disease burden In the UK, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science developed in the 1950s to imitate the human ability for solving ...

Background Critical care medicine has historically relied on syndromic diagnoses such as sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and acute kidney injury to guide research and treatment.