Thorax: 65 (10)

Airwaves

Airwaves (22 September, 2010) Free
Andrew Bush, Ian Pavord

Editorials

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing for the selection of patients undergoing surgery for lung cancer: friend or foe? (13 July, 2010) Free
Eric Lim, Michael Beckles, Chris Warburton, David Baldwin
Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in cystic fibrosis: prevent, eradicate or both?
(22 September, 2010) Free
Ernst Eber, Maximilian S Zach
Relearning an old lesson: stopping trials early (22 September, 2010) Free
Najib M Rahman, Robert J O Davies
Severity scores for CAP. ‘Much workload for the next bias’ (22 September, 2010) Free
Santiago Ewig, Antoni Torres
Hot off the breath: the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic may be gone but should not be forgotten (22 September, 2010) Free
David R Thickett, Mark Griffiths, Gavin D Perkins, Danny F McAuley

Tuberculosis

Direct comparison of the diagnostic yield of ultrasound-assisted Abrams and Tru-Cut needle biopsies for pleural tuberculosis (8 December, 2009) Free
Coenraad Frederik N Koegelenberg, Christoph Thomas Bolliger, Johan Theron, Gerhard Walzl, Colleen Anne Wright, Mercia Louw, Andreas Henri Diacon
A simple, valid, numerical score for grading chest x-ray severity in adult smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis (22 September, 2010) Free
Anna P Ralph, Muhamed Ardian, Andri Wiguna, Graeme P Maguire, Niels G Becker, Glen Drogumuller, Michael J Wilks, Govert Waramori, Emiliana Tjitra, Sandjaja, Enny Kenagalem, Gysje J Pontororing, Nicholas M Anstey, Paul M Kelly

Respiratory infection

The influence of pre-existing diabetes mellitus on the host immune response and outcome of pneumonia: analysis of two multicentre cohort studies (22 September, 2010) Free
Sachin Yende, Tom van der Poll, MinJae Lee, David T Huang, Anne B Newman, Lan Kong, John A Kellum, Tamara B Harris, Doug Bauer, Suzanne Satterfield, Derek C Angus, for the GenIMS and Health ABC study
Severity assessment tools for predicting mortality in hospitalised patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Systematic review and meta-analysis (20 August, 2010) Free
James D Chalmers, Aran Singanayagam, Ahsan R Akram, Pallavi Mandal, Philip M Short, Gourab Choudhury, Victoria Wood, Adam T Hill
Value of severity scales in predicting mortality from community-acquired pneumonia: systematic review and meta-analysis (20 August, 2010) Free
Yoon K Loke, Chun Shing Kwok, Alagaratnam Niruban, Phyo K Myint

Asthma

Simvastatin in the treatment of asthma: lack of steroid-sparing effect (22 September, 2010) Free
Douglas C Cowan, Jan O Cowan, Rochelle Palmay, Avis Williamson, D Robin Taylor
Maternal Nrf2 and gluthathione-S-transferase polymorphisms do not modify associations of prenatal tobacco smoke exposure with asthma and lung function in school-aged children (30 August, 2010) Free
A J Henderson, R B Newson, M Rose-Zerilli, S M Ring, J W Holloway, S O Shaheen

Lung cancer

Health-related quality of life in patients surviving non-small cell lung cancer (22 September, 2010) Free
Janneke P C Grutters, Manuela A Joore, Erwin M Wiegman, Johannes A Langendijk, Dirk de Ruysscher, Monique Hochstenbag, Anita Botterweck, Philippe Lambin, Madelon Pijls-Johannesma

Sleep-disordered breathing

Changes in brain morphology in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (22 September, 2010) Free
M J Morrell, M L Jackson, G L Twigg, R Ghiassi, D W McRobbie, R A Quest, H Pardoe, G S Pell, D F Abbott, P D Rochford, G D Jackson, R J Pierce, F J O'Donoghue, D R Corfield

Cystic fibrosis

Controlled trial of cycled antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent initial Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in children with cystic fibrosis
(20 August, 2010) Free
Gerdien A Tramper-Stranders, Tom F W Wolfs, Sanne van Haren Noman, Wim M C van Aalderen, Ad F Nagelkerke, Marianne Nuijsink, Jan L L Kimpen, Cornelis K van der Ent

Interstitial lung disease

Development and validity testing of an IPF-specific version of the St George's Respiratory Questionnaire (22 September, 2010) Free
Janelle Yorke, Paul W Jones, Jeffrey J Swigris

Case report

Unusual life-threatening Rosai–Dorfman disease of the trachea: role of NF-κB (22 September, 2010) Free
Lin-Fu Zhou, Liang Chen, Quan Zhu, Cong Wang, Hai Xu, Xue-Fan Cui, Lei-Fu Jiang, Shao-Heng He, Mao Huang, Kai-Sheng Yin

Review

Systemic inflammation and comorbidity in COPD: a result of ‘overspill’ of inflammatory mediators from the lungs? Review of the evidence (13 July, 2010) Free
Nicola J Sinden, Robert A Stockley

PostScript

Letter: Plasma levels of TIMP-1 are higher in 34-year-old individuals with severe α1-antitrypsin deficiency (3 September, 2010) Free
Sabina Janciauskiene, Devipriya Subramaniyam, Eeva Piitulainen, Thomas Köhnlein, Tomas Sveger
Letter: Identifying supportive and palliative care needs in people with a recent diagnosis of thoracic cancer: acceptability of the SPARC questionnaire (29 July, 2010) Free
Andrew Wilcock, Radka Klezlova, Sarah Coombes, Amanda Rawson, Rachel Bentley, Doug Hooper, Matthew Maddocks
Letter: An outbreak of H1N1 influenza in a respiratory unit (2 September, 2010) Free
D R Miller, G L Christie, P Molyneaux, G P Currie
Letter:
First independent replication study confirms the strong genetic association of ANXA11 with sarcoidosis
(30 August, 2010) Free
Yun Li, Stefan Pabst, Christian Kubisch, Christian Grohé, Bernd Wollnik

Miscellanea

Dyspnoea, fever, patchy ground-glass opacities and intermittent severe epigastralgia (22 September, 2010) Free
Naoya Hijikata, Noboru Takayanagi, Yutaka Sugita, Yoshinori Kawabata
HIV and TB: excluding those without active disease and timing of concurrent therapy (22 September, 2010) Free
R Weston

Images in Thorax

Paraneoplastic thrombus or relapse of a pulmonary artery sarcoma? (29 July, 2010) Free
Michel Oberson, Constanze Sophie Pawelczak, Felix Meincke

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October 2010 - Volume 65 - 10

Airwaves

Editorials

Tuberculosis

Respiratory infection

Asthma

Lung cancer

Sleep-disordered breathing

Cystic fibrosis

Interstitial lung disease

Case report

Review

PostScript

Miscellanea

Images in Thorax

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Table of contents

October 2010 - Volume 65 - 10

Airwaves

Editorials

Tuberculosis

Respiratory infection

Asthma

Lung cancer

Sleep-disordered breathing

Cystic fibrosis

Interstitial lung disease

Case report

Review

PostScript

Miscellanea

Images in Thorax

Issue Information