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Mobile health pulmonary rehabilitation (m-PR): a randomised controlled equivalence trial

Background Mobile health (mHealth) is a novel model of care that may overcome barriers to pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) ...
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Understanding the impact of second-hand smoke exposure on clinical outcomes in participants with COPD in the SPIROMICS cohort

1 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Columbia University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA 3 University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, ...
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Long-term impact of developing a postoperative pulmonary complication after lung surgery

Introduction Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPC) such as atelectasis and pneumonia are common following lung resection. PPCs have a significant clinical impact on postoperative morbidity and ...
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MRI features of pleural endometriosis after catamenial haemothorax

3 Radiodiagnostic Section, Department of Clinical Physiopathology University of Florence, Italy Correspondence to: Professor Mario Mascalchi Radiodiagnostic Section, Department of Clinical ...
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Usefulness of the Medical Research Council (MRC) dyspnoea scale as a measure of disability in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

a Academic Department of Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew’s and Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London Chest Hospital, London, UK, b Division of Physiological Medicine, St George’s ...
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Effects of high altitude and cold air exposure on airway inflammation in patients with asthma

1 Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 2 Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Laboratory of Pneumology, KU Leuven, ...