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Airwaves

Reducing inflammation in COPD

Editorial

  • Reducing inflammation in COPD: the evidence builds

    Thorax 2007;62:927-928 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.082677

Occupational lung disease

  • Clinical investigation of an outbreak of alveolitis and asthma in a car engine manufacturing plant

    • W Robertson,
    • A S Robertson,
    • C B S G Burge,
    • V C Moore,
    • M S Jaakkola,
    • P A Dawkins,
    • M Burd,
    • R Rawbone,
    • I Gardner,
    • M Kinoulty,
    • B Crook,
    • G S Evans,
    • J Harris-Roberts,
    • S Rice,
    • P S Burge
    Thorax 2007;62:981-990 Published Online First: 15 May 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.072199

Editorial

  • Investigating outbreaks

    Thorax 2007;62:928-929 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.082362

Postoperative mortality in lung cancer

Editorial

  • Risk and benefit: the eternal Yin and Yang of thoracic surgery

    Thorax 2007;62:929-930 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.082982

NRT in the “real world”

Editorial

  • Nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation in the “real world”

    Thorax 2007;62:930-931 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.081919

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

  • Characterisation of phenotypes based on severity of emphysema in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    • Hironi Makita,
    • Yasuyuki Nasuhara,
    • Katsura Nagai,
    • Yoko Ito,
    • Masaru Hasegawa,
    • Tomoko Betsuyaku,
    • Yuya Onodera,
    • Nobuyuki Hizawa,
    • Masaharu Nishimura
    Thorax 2007;62:932-937 Published Online First: 15 June 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.072777

  • Effect of salmeterol/fluticasone propionate on airway inflammation in COPD: a randomised controlled trial

    • Jean Bourbeau,
    • Pota Christodoulopoulos,
    • Francois Maltais,
    • Yasuhiro Yamauchi,
    • Ronald Olivenstein,
    • Qutayba Hamid
    Thorax 2007;62:938-943 Published Online First: 8 June 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.071068

  • Muscle fibre type shifting in the vastus lateralis of patients with COPD is associated with disease severity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    • Harry R Gosker,
    • Maurice P Zeegers,
    • Emiel F M Wouters,
    • Annemie M W J Schols
    Thorax 2007;62:944-949 Published Online First: 25 May 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.078980

  • Effects of rehabilitative exercise on peripheral muscle TNFα, IL-6, IGF-I and MyoD expression in patients with COPD

    • Ioannis Vogiatzis,
    • Grigoris Stratakos,
    • Davina C M Simoes,
    • Gerasimos Terzis,
    • Olga Georgiadou,
    • Charis Roussos,
    • Spyros Zakynthinos
    Thorax 2007;62:950-956 Published Online First: 15 June 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.069310

Asthma

  • Relationship between air pollution, lung function and asthma in adolescents

    • Talat Islam,
    • W James Gauderman,
    • Kiros Berhane,
    • Rob McConnell,
    • Ed Avol,
    • John M Peters,
    • Frank D Gilliland
    Thorax 2007;62:957-963 Published Online First: 21 May 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.078964

Lung alert

Miscellaneous

  • High index of suspicion required when screening new entrants for tuberculosis

    • Mathi Rasanesan
    Thorax 2007;62:963

Intensive care

  • Survival of HIV-infected patients in the intensive care unit in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy

    • S J Dickson,
    • S Batson,
    • A J Copas,
    • S G Edwards,
    • M Singer,
    • R F Miller
    Thorax 2007;62:964-968 Published Online First: 21 May 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.072256

Sleep-disordered breathing

  • Effect of CPAP on insulin resistance and HbA1c in men with obstructive sleep apnoea and type 2 diabetes

    • Sophie D West,
    • Debby J Nicoll,
    • Tara M Wallace,
    • David R Matthews,
    • John R Stradling
    Thorax 2007;62:969-974 Published Online First: 8 June 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.074351

Respiratory muscles

  • The value of multiple tests of respiratory muscle strength

    • Joerg Steier,
    • Sunny Kaul,
    • John Seymour,
    • Caroline Jolley,
    • Gerrard Rafferty,
    • William Man,
    • Yuan M Luo,
    • Michael Roughton,
    • Michael I Polkey,
    • John Moxham
    Thorax 2007;62:975-980 Published Online First: 8 June 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.072884

Lung cancer

  • Risk factors for 30-day mortality after resection of lung cancer and prediction of their magnitude

    • Trond-Eirik Strand,
    • Hans Rostad,
    • Ronald A M Damhuis,
    • Jarle Norstein
    Thorax 2007;62:991-997 Published Online First: 15 June 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.079145

Smoking

  • Is nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation effective in the “real world”? Findings from a prospective multinational cohort study

    • Robert West,
    • Xiaolei Zhou
    Thorax 2007;62:998-1002 Published Online First: 15 June 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.078758

Pulmonary puzzle

Miscellanea

  • Bilateral pulmonary alveolar infiltrate and prostate tumour in a 54-year-old man

    • André A Figueiredo,
    • Guilherme Brandão,
    • Leonardo C Dentz,
    • Christiane Meurer Alves,
    • Antônio E S Stroppa
    Thorax 2007;62:1002 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.083717

  • Answer

    Thorax 2007;62:1018 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.083717a

Tuberculosis

  • Reactivation of tuberculosis and vitamin D deficiency: the contribution of diet and exposure to sunlight

    • A Sita-Lumsden,
    • G Lapthorn,
    • R Swaminathan,
    • H J Milburn
    Thorax 2007;62:1003-1007 Published Online First: 25 May 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.070060

Review series

  • Challenges in pulmonary fibrosis · 5: The NSIP/UIP debate

    • Roland du Bois,
    • Talmadge E King, Jr
    Thorax 2007;62:1008-1012 doi:10.1136/thx.2004.031039

Case Report

  • Pulmonary actinomycosis complicating infliximab therapy for Crohn’s disease

    • R D Cohen,
    • W R Bowie,
    • R Enns,
    • J Flint,
    • J M Fitzgerald
    Thorax 2007;62:1013-1014 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.075150

Letters

  • Mortality predictors are not triage scores

    • Kirsty Challen,
    • Andrew Bentley,
    • John Bright,
    • Darren Walter
    Thorax 2007;62:1015

  • Author’s reply

    • Gavin Barlow
    Thorax 2007;62:1015

  • Simple modification of CURB-65 better identifies patients including the elderly with severe CAP

    • Phyo K Myint,
    • Ajay V Kamath,
    • Sarah L Vowler,
    • Brian D W Harrison
    Thorax 2007;62:1015-1016

  • Author’s reply

    • Gavin Barlow
    Thorax 2007;62:1016

  • Birth weight and adult lung function

    • Chandra Sekhar Devulapalli
    Thorax 2007;62:1016-1017

  • Impairment of the swallowing reflex in exacerbations of COPD

    • Seiichi Kobayashi,
    • Hiroshi Kubo,
    • Masaru Yanai
    Thorax 2007;62:1017 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.084715

  • Intravascular air and CT

    • W-J Lee,
    • K-L Liu,
    • S-J Chen
    Thorax 2007;62:1017-1018 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.084673

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