Substantial efforts have been devoted to improving the means for early and accurate diagnosis
of ventilator-associated (VA) pneumonia in intensive care unit (ICU) patients because of …

Physiological ageing of the lung is associated with dilatation of alveoli, enlargement of
airspaces, decrease in exchange surface area and loss of supporting tissue for peripheral …

Pneumonia is a major medical problem in the very old. The increased frequency and
severity of pneumonia in the elderly is largely explained by the ageing of organ systems (in …

Study objectives To describe a 7-year follow-up (1992 to 2000) of patients who were treated
by home nasal positive-pressure ventilation (NPPV) for chronic hypercapnic respiratory …

Life expectancy has risen sharply during the past century and is expected to continue to rise
in virtually all populations throughout the world. In the United States population, life …

Rationale: In the absence of active tuberculosis, a positive tuberculin skin test (TST) or
interferon-γ release assay (IGRA) result defines latent infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, …

Complex respiratory events, which may have a detrimental effect on both quality of sleep
and control of nocturnal hypoventilation, occur during sleep in patients treated with non-…

Objective: The existence of a rapid eye movement (REM)-specific sleep-disordered breathing
(SDB) has been suggested based on the finding of an association between sleepiness …

… Author links open overlay panel Jean-Paul Janssens a , Marie Metzger a , Emilia Sforza
b … or other potential conflict of interest exists regarding this study for Jean-Paul Janssens. …

Background Respiratory viruses frequently are recovered in the upper-respiratory tract during
acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD), but their role as contributing pathogens remains …