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February 2000, Volume 55, Issue 2

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  1. Editorial
  2. Original article
  3. Review series
  4. Case Reports
  5. Letters to the editor
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Editorial

  • Role of atrial septostomy in the treatment of pulmonary vascular disease

    • R J BARST
    Thorax 2000;55:2 95-96 doi:10.1136/thorax.55.2.95

Original article

  • Emergency pre-hospital management of patients admitted with acute asthma

    • A J Simpson,
    • S P Matusiewicz,
    • P H Brown,
    • I A McCall,
    • J A Innes,
    • A P Greening,
    • G K Crompton
    Thorax 2000;55:2 97-101 doi:10.1136/thorax.55.2.97

  • Diet, lung function, and lung function decline in a cohort of 2512 middle aged men

    • Barbara K Butland,
    • Ann M Fehily,
    • Peter C Elwood
    Thorax 2000;55:2 102-108 doi:10.1136/thorax.55.2.102

  • Use of nitric oxide inhalation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    • Kumar Ashutosh,
    • Kishor Phadke,
    • Jody Fragale Jackson,
    • David Steele
    Thorax 2000;55:2 109-113 doi:10.1136/thorax.55.2.109

  • Relation of sputum inflammatory markers to symptoms and lung function changes in COPD exacerbations

    • Angshu Bhowmik,
    • Terence A R Seemungal,
    • Raymond J Sapsford,
    • Jadwiga A Wedzicha
    Thorax 2000;55:2 114-120 doi:10.1136/thorax.55.2.114

  • Genetic susceptibility to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Koreans: combined analysis of polymorphic genotypes for microsomal epoxide hydrolase and glutathione S-transferase M1 and T1

    • Jae-Joon Yim,
    • Gye Young Park,
    • Choon-Taek Lee,
    • Young Whan Kim,
    • Sung Koo Han,
    • Young-Soo Shim,
    • Chul-Gyu Yoo
    Thorax 2000;55:2 121-125 doi:10.1136/thorax.55.2.121

  • Effect of oral mexiletine on the cough response to capsaicin and tartaric acid

    • Masaki Fujimura,
    • Yumie Kamio,
    • Shigeharu Myou,
    • Takuma Hashimoto
    Thorax 2000;55:2 126-128 doi:10.1136/thorax.55.2.126

  • Tuberculosis diagnosed during pregnancy: a prospective study from London

    • Martin Llewelyn,
    • Ian Cropley,
    • Robert J Wilkinson,
    • Robert N Davidson
    Thorax 2000;55:2 129-132 doi:10.1136/thorax.55.2.129

  • Diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in whole blood: a prospective clinical study

    • M L L Lorente,
    • M Falguera,
    • A Nogués,
    • A Ruiz González,
    • M T Merino,
    • M Rubio Caballero
    Thorax 2000;55:2 133-137 doi:10.1136/thorax.55.2.133

  • Increase in exhaled carbon monoxide during exacerbations of cystic fibrosis

    • Julio D Antuni,
    • Sergei A Kharitonov,
    • Derralynn Hughes,
    • Margaret E Hodson,
    • Peter J Barnes
    Thorax 2000;55:2 138-142 doi:10.1136/thorax.55.2.138

  • Adult familial cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis in the United Kingdom

    • Richard P Marshall,
    • Anna Puddicombe,
    • William O C Cookson,
    • Geoffrey J Laurent
    Thorax 2000;55:2 143-146 doi:10.1136/thorax.55.2.143

  • Role of E-selectin in bleomycin induced lung fibrosis in mice

    • Arata Azuma,
    • Satoru Takahashi,
    • Masato Nose,
    • Kimi Araki,
    • Masatake Araki,
    • Takuo Takahashi,
    • Mayumi Hirose,
    • Hiroto Kawashima,
    • Masayuki Miyasaka,
    • Shoji Kudoh
    Thorax 2000;55:2 147-152 doi:10.1136/thorax.55.2.147

Review series

  • Issues at the interface between primary and secondary care in the management of common respiratory disease • 6: Do hospital physicians have a role in reducing antibiotic prescribing in the community?

    • John Macfarlane,
    • W F Holmes,
    • Rosamund Macfarlane
    Thorax 2000;55:2 153-158 doi:10.1136/thorax.55.2.153

  • Rare diseases • 7: Pleuropulmonary manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus

    • Michael P Keane,
    • Joseph P Lynch III
    Thorax 2000;55:2 159-166 doi:10.1136/thorax.55.2.159

Case Reports

  • Alveolar haemorrhage in a case of high altitude pulmonary oedema

    • Colin K Grissom,
    • Kurt H Albertine,
    • Mark R Elstad
    Thorax 2000;55:2 167-169 doi:10.1136/thorax.55.2.167

  • Xanthoma disseminatum with respiratory tract involvement and fatal outcome

    • Christopher W H Davies,
    • Pauline Marren,
    • Mark C Juniper,
    • Winifred Gray,
    • Fenella Wojnorowska,
    • Malcolm K Benson
    Thorax 2000;55:2 170-172 doi:10.1136/thorax.55.2.170

Letters to the editor

  • Silica dust and lung cancer

    • X BAUR,
    • U LATZA,
    • K-H JÖCKEL
    1. Commentator:
      • K ULM
    Thorax 2000;55:2 172 doi:10.1136/thorax.55.2.172

  • Re-estimated equations for 5th percentiles of lung function variables

    • O BRÄNDLI,
    • C SCHINDLER,
    • PH LEUENBERGER,
    • X BAUR,
    • P DEGENS,
    • N KÜNZLI,
    • R KELLER,
    • A P PERRUCHOUD
    Thorax 2000;55:2 172 doi:10.1136/thorax.55.2.172a

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