Thorax: 53 (4)

Editorial

Brittle asthma: fiend or phantom? (1 April, 1998) Free
M R HETZEL
Improved survival in ARDS: chance, technology or experience? (1 April, 1998) Free
S BAUDOUIN
Lung research funding in the UK: the British Lung Foundation perspective (1 April, 1998) Free
W MACNEE, I M WALDEN

Original article

Rapid onset asthma: a severe but uncommon manifestation (1 April, 1998) Free
J Kolbe, W Fergusson, J Garrett
Airway wall thickness in patients with near fatal asthma and control groups: assessment with high resolution computed tomographic scanning (1 April, 1998) Free
Nasser Awadh, Nestor L Müller, Chan S Park, Raja T Abboud, J Mark FitzGerald
Chlamydia pneumoniae and asthma
(1 April, 1998) Free
P J Cook, P Davies, W Tunnicliffe, J G Ayres, D Honeybourne, R Wise
Induction of IL-8 production in human alveolar macrophages and human bronchial epithelial cells in vitro by swine dust (1 April, 1998) Free
Lena Palmberg, Britt-Marie Larsson, Per Malmberg, Kjell Larsson
Clinical features and prognosis of life time non-smokers with severe α₁-antitrypsin deficiency
(1 April, 1998) Free
Niels Seersholm, Axel Kok-Jensen
Effects of theophylline and ipratropium bromide on exercise performance in patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (1 April, 1998) Free
Mitsuhiro Tsukino, Koichi Nishimura, Akihiko Ikeda, Takashi Hajiro, Hiroshi Koyama, Takateru Izumi
Clinical profiles of Chinese patients with diffuse panbronchiolitis (1 April, 1998) Free
Kenneth W T Tsang, Clara G C Ooi, Mary S M Ip, Wah-kit Lam, Henry Ngan, Eric Y T Chan, Brian Hawkins, Chu-shak Ho, Ryoichi Amitani, Eisaku Tanaka, Harumi Itoh
Medium term results of lung transplantation for end stage pulmonary sarcoidosis (1 April, 1998) Free
Stuart Walker, Ghada Mikhail, Nicholas Banner, John Partridge, Asghar Khaghani, Margaret Burke, Magdi Yacoub
Totally implantable venous access devices in children with cystic fibrosis: incidence and type of complications (1 April, 1998) Free
J Deerojanawong, S M Sawyer, A M Fink, K B Stokes, C F Robertson

Short paper

Comparison of nose and face mask CPAP therapy for sleep apnoea (1 April, 1998) Free
I L Mortimore, A T Whittle, N J Douglas
Reduced mortality in association with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) (1 April, 1998) Free
S J C Abel, S J Finney, S J Brett, B F Keogh, C J Morgan, T W Evans

Review series

Health effects of passive smoking • 7: Parental smoking, bronchial reactivity and peak flow variability in children (1 April, 1998) Free
Derek G Cook, David P Strachan
Lung infections • 4:
Pathogenesis of lower respiratory tract infections due toChlamydia, Mycoplasma,Legionella and viruses
(1 April, 1998) Free
Paul Andersen

Occasional review

High resolution computed tomography in asthma (1 April, 1998) Free
Alan N Mclean, Michael W Sproule, Michael D Cowan, Neil C Thomson
Brittle asthma (1 April, 1998) Free
Jon G Ayres, Jon F Miles, Peter J Barnes

Case report

Commentary: “Histiocytosis X” (1 April, 1998) Free
Dinah V Parums
Recurrence of recipient Langerhans’ cell histiocytosis following bilateral lung transplantation (1 April, 1998) Free
S B Habib, J Congleton, D Carr, J Partridge, B Corrin, D M Geddes, N Banner, M Yacoub, M Burke
Recurrence of Langerhans’ cell granulomatosis following lung transplantation (1 April, 1998) Free
E Gabbay, J H Dark, T Ashcroft, D Milne, G J Gibson, M Healy, P A Corris

Letters to the editor

Should steroids be first choice for asthma? (1 April, 1998) Free
GEORGE STRUBE
The tobacco epidemic in Japan (1 April, 1998) Free
HIROSHI KAWANE
Tobacco advertising ban in Europe (1 April, 1998) Free
STEPHEN G SPIRO

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April 1998 - Volume 53 - 4

Editorial

Original article

Short paper

Review series

Occasional review

Case report

Letters to the editor

Issue Information