April 2020 - Lung volume in COPD: when less is more

In April's podcast, James Cave (DTB Editor-in-Chief) and David Phizackerley (DTB Deputy Editor) discuss lung volume reduction surgery for patients with emphysema-predominant COPD (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/58/4/50). They highlight the results of a trial of low-dose amitriptyline for chronic low back pain (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/58/4/53), discuss the use of depot triamcinolone injection for hay fever (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/58/4/57), and talk about a case in which dapagliflozin was thought to have caused euglycaemic diabetic ketoacidosis (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/58/4/60). If you enjoy the DTB podcast, please subscribe to get episodes automatically downloaded to your mobile device and computer. Also, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the DTB Podcast iTunes podcast page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dtb-podcast/id307773309). Thank you for listening. Read the full April issue: dtb.bmj.com/content/58/4

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