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Airwaves

  • Airwaves

    Thorax 2009;64:8 i doi:10.1136/thx.2009.122812

Editorials

  • Lung function effects of chronic exposure to air pollution

    • Jordi Sunyer
    Thorax 2009;64:8 645-646 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.115071

  • Can traffic-related air pollution cause asthma?

    • John R Balmes
    Thorax 2009;64:8 646-647 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.116418

  • Pulmonary infection in Wegener's granulomatosis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

    • Nicholas Kim Harrison
    Thorax 2009;64:8 647-649 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.115089

  • Where there’s smoke… there’s tuberculosis

    • Stephen Gordon,
    • Jamie Rylance
    Thorax 2009;64:8 649-650 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.116400

Environmental exposure

  • Childhood peak flow and the Oxford Transport Strategy

    • S J MacNeill,
    • F Goddard,
    • R Pitman,
    • S Tharme,
    • P Cullinan
    Thorax 2009;64:8 651-656 Published Online First: 3 December 2008 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.101360

  • Chronic exposure to outdoor air pollution and lung function in adults

    • L J L Forbes,
    • V Kapetanakis,
    • A R Rudnicka,
    • D G Cook,
    • T Bush,
    • J R Stedman,
    • P H Whincup,
    • D P Strachan,
    • H R Anderson
    Thorax 2009;64:8 657-663 Published Online First: 8 April 2009 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.109389

  • Traffic-related air pollution correlates with adult-onset asthma among never-smokers

    • N Künzli,
    • P-O Bridevaux,
    • L-J S Liu,
    • R Garcia-Esteban,
    • C Schindler,
    • M W Gerbase,
    • J Sunyer,
    • D Keidel,
    • T Rochat
    Thorax 2009;64:8 664-670 Published Online First: 8 April 2009 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.110031

Airway biology

  • Granulocyte–macrophage colony-stimulating factor expression in induced sputum and bronchial mucosa in asthma and COPD

    • S Saha,
    • C Doe,
    • V Mistry,
    • S Siddiqui,
    • D Parker,
    • M Sleeman,
    • E S Cohen,
    • C E Brightling
    Thorax 2009;64:8 671-676 Published Online First: 12 February 2009 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.108290
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Paediatric lung biology

  • Serum KL-6 differentiates neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy from the inborn errors of surfactant metabolism

    • M L Doan,
    • O Elidemir,
    • M K Dishop,
    • H Zhang,
    • E O Smith,
    • P G Black,
    • R R Deterding,
    • D M Roberts,
    • Q A Al-Salmi,
    • L L Fan
    Thorax 2009;64:8 677-681 Published Online First: 22 February 2009 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.107979

Pulmonary puzzle

  • ANSWER

    Thorax 2009;64:8 697 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.106260a

Miscellaneous

  • A newly developed lung nodule during chemotherapy for small cell lung cancer

    • M S Kang,
    • G Y Noh,
    • D H Choe,
    • C H Kim,
    • J C Lee
    Thorax 2009;64:8 682 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.106260

Cystic fibrosis

  • Phenotypic characterisation of patients with intermediate sweat chloride values: towards validation of the European diagnostic algorithm for cystic fibrosis

    • C Goubau,
    • M Wilschanski,
    • V Skalická,
    • P Lebecque,
    • K W Southern,
    • I Sermet,
    • A Munck,
    • N Derichs,
    • P G Middleton,
    • L Hjelte,
    • R Padoan,
    • M Vasar,
    • K De Boeck
    Thorax 2009;64:8 683-691 Published Online First: 23 March 2009 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.104752

Respiratory infection

  • Pulmonary infection in Wegener granulomatosis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

    • A G Richter,
    • R A Stockley,
    • L Harper,
    • D R Thickett
    Thorax 2009;64:8 692-697 Published Online First: 8 April 2009 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.110445

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

  • Associations of IL6 polymorphisms with lung function decline and COPD

    • J-Q He,
    • M G Foreman,
    • K Shumansky,
    • X Zhang,
    • L Akhabir,
    • D D Sin,
    • S F P Man,
    • D L DeMeo,
    • A A Litonjua,
    • E K Silverman,
    • J E Connett,
    • N R Anthonisen,
    • R A Wise,
    • P D Paré,
    • A J Sandford
    Thorax 2009;64:8 698-704 Published Online First: 8 April 2009 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.111278

Lung alert

Miscellanea

  • Vitamin D levels are inversely proportional to the “common cold”

    • W Thomas,
    • R Quadery
    Thorax 2009;64:8 704

  • Potential treatment for XDR-TB?

    • G Tack
    Thorax 2009;64:8 725

  • Which COPD patients should be admitted to the ICU?

    • C Subbe
    Thorax 2009;64:8 735

Tuberculosis

  • Association between biomass fuel and pulmonary tuberculosis: a nested case–control study

    • C Kolappan,
    • R Subramani
    Thorax 2009;64:8 705-708 Published Online First: 8 April 2009 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.109405

Pneumonia

  • Does early review by a respiratory physician lead to a shorter length of stay for patients with non-severe community-acquired pneumonia?

    • T Bewick,
    • V J Cooper,
    • W S Lim
    Thorax 2009;64:8 709-712 Published Online First: 21 April 2009 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.109983

Respiratory physiology

  • Qualitative aspects of breathlessness in health and disease

    • J Smith,
    • P Albert,
    • E Bertella,
    • J Lester,
    • S Jack,
    • P Calverley
    Thorax 2009;64:8 713-718 Published Online First: 21 April 2009 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.104869

  • Neural respiratory drive in obesity

    • J Steier,
    • C J Jolley,
    • J Seymour,
    • M Roughton,
    • M I Polkey,
    • J Moxham
    Thorax 2009;64:8 719-725 Published Online First: 21 April 2009 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.109728

Case Report

  • Extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal to “protect” the lung

    • S L Stirling,
    • J J Cordingley,
    • D N Hunter,
    • M J Griffiths,
    • S J Wort,
    • T W Evans,
    • S J Finney
    Thorax 2009;64:8 726-727 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.098731

Review

  • The overlap syndrome of asthma and COPD: what are its features and how important is it?

    • P G Gibson,
    • J L Simpson
    Thorax 2009;64:8 728-735 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.108027

Images in Thorax

  • Free-floating right atrial thrombus with acute pulmonary embolism

    • X Hou,
    • W Liu,
    • Z Zhang,
    • Z Li
    Thorax 2009;64:8 736 doi:10.1136/thx.2008.108217

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