Introduction NICE guidelines recommend a Mantoux threshold of 15 mm induration to trigger investigation for tuberculosis (TB), with IGRA tests used as second line in selected groups. Little data are ...

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne. Bacillus cereus is rarely a pulmonary pathogen but may cause pneumonia in immunocompromised patients. A patient with ...

1 Division of Hematology/Oncology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA 2 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA ...

Because there is no `ideal' method for the complete correction of some of the more complex congenital cardiac abnormalities, a technique of making a composite graft of autologous fascia lata has been ...

1 Department of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences, King's College London, London, UK 2 Department of Community Health Sciences, St George's, University of London, London, UK 3 Queen Mary ...

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 ...

Mitral valvotomy is of established value in improving the clinical condition and life expectancy of patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis. Its value in preventing or reducing the incidence of ...

Department of Respiratory Medicine, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK Correspondence to: Dr P K Plant, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Level 7, Gledhow Wing, St James’s University ...

Aim To assess the value of procalcitonin in the diagnosis of pleural infection and its utility for monitoring response to treatment. Methods All patients presenting to our unit from September 2016 ...

Lung Function and Sleep Department, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, (New) Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to Dr Jennie Gane, Lung Function and Sleep ...

Introduction A high ratio of monocytes to lymphocytes (ML ratio) has been associated with tuberculosis (TB) disease. The purpose of our study was to examine the veracity of this association in TB ...

1 Clinical and Academic Department of Sleep and Breathing, National Heart and Lung Institute and NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College, London, UK 2 Department of ...