Recent advances: Pulmonary medicine

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Abstract
Respiratory medicine covers a great variety of disorders that are common in general clinical practice, and many important papers have been published on these illnesses in the past few years. Since the volume of published articles makes it almost impossible for doctors to be informed of all recent developments in medicine, this review aims to provide practical information on recent scientific evidence that may change practice in pulmonary medicine. ### Summary points The large number of publications each year makes a classic Medline search unsuitable for a literature review on “recent advances” in a given specialty. However, database searches do show the number of papers published on selected topics, which may reflect the amount of research and new information (table 1). View this table: Table 1 Results of Medline search for articles published between February 1997 and February 1998 in some areas of pulmonary medicine The references in this review have been identified by regular reading of the following journals: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine , Chest , Thorax , Respiratory Medicine , Respiration , Respirology …