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October 2010, Volume 65, Issue 10

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  1. Airwaves
  2. Editorials
  3. Tuberculosis
  4. Respiratory infection
  5. Asthma
  6. Lung cancer
  7. Sleep-disordered breathing
  8. Cystic fibrosis
  9. Interstitial lung disease
  10. Case report
  11. Review
  12. PostScript
  13. Miscellanea
  14. Images in Thorax
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Airwaves

  • Airwaves

    • Andrew Bush,
    • Ian Pavord
    Thorax 2010;65:10 i doi:10.1136/thx.2010.150425

Editorials

  • Cardiopulmonary exercise testing for the selection of patients undergoing surgery for lung cancer: friend or foe?

    • Eric Lim,
    • Michael Beckles,
    • Chris Warburton,
    • David Baldwin
    Thorax 2010;65:10 847-849 Published Online First: 13 July 2010 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.133181

  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in cystic fibrosis: prevent, eradicate or both?

    • Ernst Eber,
    • Maximilian S Zach
    Thorax 2010;65:10 849-851 doi:10.1136/thx.2010.138891

  • Relearning an old lesson: stopping trials early

    • Najib M Rahman,
    • Robert J O Davies
    Thorax 2010;65:10 851-853 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.131219

  • Severity scores for CAP. ‘Much workload for the next bias’

    • Santiago Ewig,
    • Antoni Torres
    Thorax 2010;65:10 853-855 doi:10.1136/thx.2010.143297

  • Hot off the breath: the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic may be gone but should not be forgotten

    • David R Thickett,
    • Mark Griffiths,
    • Gavin D Perkins,
    • Danny F McAuley
    Thorax 2010;65:10 855-856 doi:10.1136/thx.2010.149294

Tuberculosis

  • Direct comparison of the diagnostic yield of ultrasound-assisted Abrams and Tru-Cut needle biopsies for pleural tuberculosis

    • Coenraad Frederik N Koegelenberg,
    • Christoph Thomas Bolliger,
    • Johan Theron,
    • Gerhard Walzl,
    • Colleen Anne Wright,
    • Mercia Louw,
    • Andreas Henri Diacon
    Thorax 2010;65:10 857-862 Published Online First: 8 December 2009 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.125146

  • A simple, valid, numerical score for grading chest x-ray severity in adult smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis

    • 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
    Thorax 2010;65:10 863-869 doi:10.1136/thx.2010.136242

Respiratory infection

  • The influence of pre-existing diabetes mellitus on the host immune response and outcome of pneumonia: analysis of two multicentre cohort studies

    • 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
    Thorax 2010;65:10 870-877 doi:10.1136/thx.2010.136317

  • Severity assessment tools for predicting mortality in hospitalised patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Systematic review and meta-analysis

    • James D Chalmers,
    • Aran Singanayagam,
    • Ahsan R Akram,
    • Pallavi Mandal,
    • Philip M Short,
    • Gourab Choudhury,
    • Victoria Wood,
    • Adam T Hill
    Thorax 2010;65:10 878-883 Published Online First: 20 August 2010 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.133280
    Editor's Choice

  • Value of severity scales in predicting mortality from community-acquired pneumonia: systematic review and meta-analysis

    • Yoon K Loke,
    • Chun Shing Kwok,
    • Alagaratnam Niruban,
    • Phyo K Myint
    Thorax 2010;65:10 884-890 Published Online First: 20 August 2010 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.134072

Asthma

  • Simvastatin in the treatment of asthma: lack of steroid-sparing effect

    • Douglas C Cowan,
    • Jan O Cowan,
    • Rochelle Palmay,
    • Avis Williamson,
    • D Robin Taylor
    Thorax 2010;65:10 891-896 doi:10.1136/thx.2010.138990

  • 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

    • A J Henderson,
    • R B Newson,
    • M Rose-Zerilli,
    • S M Ring,
    • J W Holloway,
    • S O Shaheen
    Thorax 2010;65:10 897-902 Published Online First: 30 August 2010 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.125856

Lung cancer

  • Health-related quality of life in patients surviving non-small cell lung cancer

    • 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
    Thorax 2010;65:10 903-907 doi:10.1136/thx.2010.136390

Sleep-disordered breathing

  • Changes in brain morphology in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea

    • 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
    Thorax 2010;65:10 908-914 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.126730

Cystic fibrosis

  • Controlled trial of cycled antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent initial Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in children with cystic fibrosis

    • 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
    Thorax 2010;65:10 915-920 Published Online First: 20 August 2010 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.126128

Interstitial lung disease

  • Development and validity testing of an IPF-specific version of the St George's Respiratory Questionnaire

    • Janelle Yorke,
    • Paul W Jones,
    • Jeffrey J Swigris
    Thorax 2010;65:10 921-926 doi:10.1136/thx.2010.139121

Case report

  • Unusual life-threatening Rosai–Dorfman disease of the trachea: role of NF-κB

    • 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
    Thorax 2010;65:10 927-929 doi:10.1136/thx.2010.139998

Review

  • Systemic inflammation and comorbidity in COPD: a result of ‘overspill’ of inflammatory mediators from the lungs? Review of the evidence

    • Nicola J Sinden,
    • Robert A Stockley
    Thorax 2010;65:10 930-936 Published Online First: 13 July 2010 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.130260

PostScript

  • Letter: Plasma levels of TIMP-1 are higher in 34-year-old individuals with severe α1-antitrypsin deficiency

    • Sabina Janciauskiene,
    • Devipriya Subramaniyam,
    • Eeva Piitulainen,
    • Thomas Köhnlein,
    • Tomas Sveger
    Thorax 2010;65:10 937 Published Online First: 3 September 2010 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.127936

  • Letter: Identifying supportive and palliative care needs in people with a recent diagnosis of thoracic cancer: acceptability of the SPARC questionnaire

    • Andrew Wilcock,
    • Radka Klezlova,
    • Sarah Coombes,
    • Amanda Rawson,
    • Rachel Bentley,
    • Doug Hooper,
    • Matthew Maddocks
    Thorax 2010;65:10 937-938 Published Online First: 29 July 2010 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.131243

  • Letter: An outbreak of H1N1 influenza in a respiratory unit

    • D R Miller,
    • G L Christie,
    • P Molyneaux,
    • G P Currie
    Thorax 2010;65:10 938-939 Published Online First: 2 September 2010 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.134411

  • Letter: First independent replication study confirms the strong genetic association of ANXA11 with sarcoidosis

    • Yun Li,
    • Stefan Pabst,
    • Christian Kubisch,
    • Christian Grohé,
    • Bernd Wollnik
    Thorax 2010;65:10 939-940 Published Online First: 30 August 2010 doi:10.1136/thx.2010.138743

Miscellanea

  • Dyspnoea, fever, patchy ground-glass opacities and intermittent severe epigastralgia

    • Naoya Hijikata,
    • Noboru Takayanagi,
    • Yutaka Sugita,
    • Yoshinori Kawabata
    Thorax 2010;65:10 890 doi:10.1136/thx.2010.136655

  • HIV and TB: excluding those without active disease and timing of concurrent therapy

    • R Weston
    Thorax 2010;65:10 936 doi:10.1136/thx.2010.145508

Images in Thorax

  • Paraneoplastic thrombus or relapse of a pulmonary artery sarcoma?

    • Michel Oberson,
    • Constanze Sophie Pawelczak,
    • Felix Meincke
    Thorax 2010;65:10 941-942 Published Online First: 29 July 2010 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.124693

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