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Editorials

  • Hunting for a pleural fluid test for mesothelioma: is soluble mesothelin the answer?

    • Y C Gary Lee
    Thorax 2007;62:7 561-562 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.076612

  • Pulmonary coagulopathy: a potential therapeutic target in different forms of lung injury

    • Marcus J Schultz,
    • Marcel Levi
    Thorax 2007;62:7 563-564 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.067256

Airwaves

Lung cancer

  • Diagnosis of lung cancer by the analysis of exhaled breath with a colorimetric sensor array

    • Peter J Mazzone,
    • Jeffrey Hammel,
    • Raed Dweik,
    • Jie Na,
    • Carmen Czich,
    • Daniel Laskowski,
    • Tarek Mekhail
    Thorax 2007;62:7 565-568 Published Online First: 27 February 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.072892

  • Soluble mesothelin in effusions: a useful tool for the diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma

    • Jenette Creaney,
    • Deborah Yeoman,
    • Leanne K Naumoff,
    • Michelle Hof,
    • Amanda Segal,
    • Arthur William Musk,
    • Nicholas De Klerk,
    • Nora Horick,
    • Steven J Skates,
    • Bruce W S Robinson
    Thorax 2007;62:7 569-576 Published Online First: 13 March 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.068114

  • Is the initial feasibility of lobectomy for stage I non-small cell lung cancer in severe heterogeneous emphysema justified by long-term survival?

    • Antonio E Martin-Ucar,
    • Khaleel R Fareed,
    • Apostolos Nakas,
    • Paul Vaughan,
    • John G Edwards,
    • David A Waller
    Thorax 2007;62:7 577-580 Published Online First: 8 February 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.070177

Asthma

  • Development and validation of database indexes of asthma severity and control

    • Faranak Firoozi,
    • Catherine Lemière,
    • Marie-France Beauchesne,
    • Amélie Forget,
    • Lucie Blais
    Thorax 2007;62:7 581-587 Published Online First: 7 February 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.061572

Miscellanea

  • Combination treatment may help patients with COPD, but does not improve mortality

    • Sundari Ampikaipakan
    Thorax 2007;62:7 587

  • CT screening for lung cancer not shown to reduce mortality

    • David Hodgson
    Thorax 2007;62:7 607

  • Prolonged fever, dyspnoea and diffuse pleural thickening in a 20-year-old man

    • C Cai,
    • D R Li,
    • Q S Zeng,
    • S Q Zhong,
    • N S Zhong
    Thorax 2007;62:7 622 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.081232

  • Answer

    Thorax 2007;62:7 637 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.81232a

  • Risk factors associated with superspreading events in SARS

    • Ali A Mohammed
    Thorax 2007;62:7 649

Acute respiratory distress syndrome

  • Patients with ARDS show improvement but not normalisation of alveolar surface activity with surfactant treatment: putative role of neutral lipids

    • Philipp Markart,
    • Clemens Ruppert,
    • Malgorzata Wygrecka,
    • Thorsten Colaris,
    • Bhola Dahal,
    • Dieter Walmrath,
    • Heinz Harbach,
    • Jochen Wilhelm,
    • Werner Seeger,
    • Reinhold Schmidt,
    • Andreas Guenther
    Thorax 2007;62:7 588-594 Published Online First: 7 February 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.062398

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

  • Profiling serum biomarkers in patients with COPD: associations with clinical parameters

    • Victor Pinto-Plata,
    • John Toso,
    • Kwan Lee,
    • Daniel Park,
    • John Bilello,
    • Hana Mullerova,
    • Mary M De Souza,
    • Rupert Vessey,
    • Bartolome Celli
    Thorax 2007;62:7 595-601 Published Online First: 13 March 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.064428

Exhaled markers

  • Increased alveolar nitric oxide concentration and high levels of leukotriene B4 and 8-isoprostane in exhaled breath condensate in patients with asbestosis

    • Hannele Lehtonen,
    • Panu Oksa,
    • Lauri Lehtimäki,
    • Anna Sepponen,
    • Riina Nieminen,
    • Hannu Kankaanranta,
    • Seppo Saarelainen,
    • Ritva Järvenpää,
    • Jukka Uitti,
    • Eeva Moilanen
    Thorax 2007;62:7 602-607 Published Online First: 24 January 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.067868

Acute lung injury

  • The alveolar epithelium can initiate the extrinsic coagulation cascade through expression of tissue factor

    • Julie A Bastarache,
    • Ling Wang,
    • Thomas Geiser,
    • Zhengming Wang,
    • Kurt H Albertine,
    • Michael A Matthay,
    • Lorraine B Ware
    Thorax 2007;62:7 608-616 Published Online First: 13 March 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.063305

Pulmonary hypertension

  • Demographic features, BMPR2 status and outcomes in distal chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

    • Jay Suntharalingam,
    • Rajiv D Machado,
    • Linda D Sharples,
    • Mark R Toshner,
    • Karen K Sheares,
    • Rodney J Hughes,
    • David P Jenkins,
    • Richard C Trembath,
    • Nicholas W Morrell,
    • Joanna Pepke-Zaba
    Thorax 2007;62:7 617-622 Published Online First: 7 February 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.070680

Emphysema

  • Transpleural ventilation of explanted human lungs

    • Cliff K Choong,
    • Peter T Macklem,
    • John A Pierce,
    • Stephen S Lefrak,
    • Jason C Woods,
    • Mark S Conradi,
    • Dimitry A Yablonskiy,
    • James C Hogg,
    • Kimiaki Chino,
    • Joel D Cooper
    Thorax 2007;62:7 623-630 Published Online First: 5 April 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2005.053256

Epidemiology

  • Recorded infections and antibiotics in early life: associations with allergy in UK children and their parents

    • Jessica M Harris,
    • Pamela Mills,
    • Carol White,
    • Susan Moffat,
    • Anthony J Newman Taylor,
    • Paul Cullinan
    Thorax 2007;62:7 631-637 Published Online First: 8 February 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.072124

Review series

  • Challenges in pulmonary fibrosis · 2 : Bronchiolocentric fibrosis

    • Jean-François Cordier
    Thorax 2007;62:7 638-649 doi:10.1136/thx.2004.031005

Letters to the editor

  • Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is expressed in human bone

    • Elizabeth F Shead,
    • Charles S Haworth,
    • Alison M Condliffe,
    • Damian J McKeon,
    • Mike A Scott,
    • Juliet E Compston
    Thorax 2007;62:7 650-651 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.075887

  • Obstructive sleep apnoea in patients with type 2 diabetes

    • Emer Kelly,
    • Garret Cullen,
    • Colm McGurk
    Thorax 2007;62:7 651 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.074955

  • Screening for type 2 diabetes in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea

    • C Snelson,
    • R Chandrappa,
    • H Moudgil
    Thorax 2007;62:7 651

Images in Thorax

  • Persistent diffuse pulmonary interstitial emphysema mimicking pulmonary emphysema

    • Y Demura,
    • T Ishizaki,
    • M Nakanishi,
    • S Ameshima,
    • H Itoh
    Thorax 2007;62:7 652 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.074724

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