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January 2009, Volume 64, Issue 1

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  1. Airwaves
  2. Editorials
  3. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  4. Pulmonary puzzle
    1. Miscellanea
  6. Asthma
  7. Paediatrics
  8. Sleep-disordered breathing
  9. Lung cancer
  10. Review
  11. Case Report
  12. Corrections
  13. Images in Thorax
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Airwaves

Editorials

  • Smoke and dust get in your eyes: what does it mean in the workplace?

    • Maritta S Jaakkola
    Thorax 2009;64:1 1-2 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.104778

  • Beyond airflow limitation: another look at COPD

    • Massimo Pistolesi
    Thorax 2009;64:1 2-4 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.106674

  • Statins for the treatment of asthma: a discovery well, dry hole or just snake oil

    • Bruce K Rubin
    Thorax 2009;64:1 4-5 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.106757

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

  • Occupational exposures and the risk of COPD: dusty trades revisited

    • P D Blanc,
    • C Iribarren,
    • L Trupin,
    • G Earnest,
    • P P Katz,
    • J Balmes,
    • S Sidney,
    • M D Eisner
    Thorax 2009;64:1 6-12 Published Online First: 4 August 2008 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.099390

  • Chronic endurance exercise induces quadriceps nitrosative stress in patients with severe COPD

    • E Barreiro,
    • R Rabinovich,
    • J Marin-Corral,
    • J A Barberà,
    • J Gea,
    • J Roca
    Thorax 2009;64:1 13-19 Published Online First: 3 October 2008 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.105163

  • Body mass index in male patients with COPD: correlation with low attenuation areas on CT

    • E Ogawa,
    • Y Nakano,
    • T Ohara,
    • S Muro,
    • T Hirai,
    • S Sato,
    • H Sakai,
    • M Tsukino,
    • D Kinose,
    • M Nishioka,
    • A Niimi,
    • K Chin,
    • P D Paré,
    • M Mishima
    Thorax 2009;64:1 20-25 Published Online First: 13 October 2008 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.097543

  • Enhanced pulmonary leptin expression in patients with severe COPD and asymptomatic smokers

    • J H J Vernooy,
    • N E A Drummen,
    • R J van Suylen,
    • R H E Cloots,
    • G M Möller,
    • K R Bracke,
    • S Zuyderduyn,
    • M A Dentener,
    • G G Brusselle,
    • P S Hiemstra,
    • E F M Wouters
    Thorax 2009;64:1 26-32 Published Online First: 3 October 2008 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.085423

Pulmonary puzzle

Miscellanea

  • An unusual cause of patchy ground-glass opacity

    • N Just,
    • J Delourme,
    • C Delattre,
    • A Liesse,
    • F Steenhouwer
    Thorax 2009;64:1 12 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.096875

  • ANSWER

    Thorax 2009;64:1 74 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.96875a

Asthma

  • Ventilation heterogeneity in children with well controlled asthma with normal spirometry indicates residual airways disease

    • K A Macleod,
    • A R Horsley,
    • N J Bell,
    • A P Greening,
    • J A Innes,
    • S Cunningham
    Thorax 2009;64:1 33-37 Published Online First: 4 August 2008 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.095018

  • Genome-wide transcriptional profiling linked to social class in asthma

    • E Chen,
    • G E Miller,
    • H A Walker,
    • J M Arevalo,
    • C Y Sung,
    • S W Cole
    Thorax 2009;64:1 38-43 Published Online First: 10 November 2008 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.095091

  • Pravastatin attenuates allergic airway inflammation by suppressing antigen sensitisation, interleukin 17 production and antigen presentation in the lung

    • M Imamura,
    • K Okunishi,
    • H Ohtsu,
    • K Nakagome,
    • H Harada,
    • R Tanaka,
    • K Yamamoto,
    • M Dohi
    Thorax 2009;64:1 44-49 Published Online First: 3 October 2008 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.094540

  • Occupational rhinitis in workers investigated for occupational asthma

    • R Castano,
    • D Gautrin,
    • G Thériault,
    • C Trudeau,
    • H Ghezzo,
    • J-L Malo
    Thorax 2009;64:1 50-54 Published Online First: 3 October 2008 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.102822

  • Breathing exercises for asthma: a randomised controlled trial

    • M Thomas,
    • R K McKinley,
    • S Mellor,
    • G Watkin,
    • E Holloway,
    • J Scullion,
    • D E Shaw,
    • A Wardlaw,
    • D Price,
    • I Pavord
    Thorax 2009;64:1 55-61 Published Online First: 3 December 2008 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.100867

Paediatrics

  • Effect of breastfeeding duration on lung function at age 10 years: a prospective birth cohort study

    • I U Ogbuanu,
    • W Karmaus,
    • S H Arshad,
    • R J Kurukulaaratchy,
    • S Ewart
    Thorax 2009;64:1 62-66 Published Online First: 10 November 2008 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.101543

Sleep-disordered breathing

  • Effects of continuous positive airway pressure on systemic inflammation in patients with moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnoea: a randomised controlled trial

    • M Kohler,
    • L Ayers,
    • J C T Pepperell,
    • K L Packwood,
    • B Ferry,
    • N Crosthwaite,
    • S Craig,
    • M M Siccoli,
    • R J O Davies,
    • J R Stradling
    Thorax 2009;64:1 67-73 Published Online First: 11 September 2008 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.097931

Lung cancer

  • Comparison of gemcitabine and carboplatin versus cisplatin and etoposide for patients with poor-prognosis small cell lung cancer

    • S M Lee,
    • L E James,
    • W Qian,
    • S Spiro,
    • T Eisen,
    • N H Gower,
    • D R Ferry,
    • D Gilligan,
    • P G Harper,
    • J Prendiville,
    • M Hocking,
    • R M Rudd
    Thorax 2009;64:1 75-80 Published Online First: 11 September 2008 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.093872

Review

  • Neutrophils in cystic fibrosis

    • D G Downey,
    • S C Bell,
    • J S Elborn
    Thorax 2009;64:1 81-88 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.082388

Case Report

  • Human and canine pulmonary Mycobacterium bovis infection in the same household: re-emergence of an old zoonotic threat?

    • D Shrikrishna,
    • R de la Rua-Domenech,
    • N H Smith,
    • A Colloff,
    • I Coutts
    Thorax 2009;64:1 89-91 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.106302

Corrections

  • Corrections

    Thorax 2009;64:1 91 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.102947corr1

  • Corrections

    Thorax 2009;64:1 91

  • Corrections

    Thorax 2009;64:1 91 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.088831corr1

Images in Thorax

  • 99mTechnetium-labelled neutrophil scanning in pneumonia

    • P Ruparelia,
    • K Szczepura,
    • C Summers,
    • A M Peters,
    • E R Chilvers
    Thorax 2009;64:1 92 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.089573

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