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Airwaves

  • Highlights from this issue

    • Andrew Bush,
    • Ian Pavord
    Thorax 2012;67:3 i doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-201711

Editorials

  • Asthma and pregnancy: do they give clues to abnormal antiviral activity?

    • William W Busse,
    • James E Gern
    Thorax 2012;67:3 189-190 Published Online First: 8 October 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-201007

  • Inflammometry: the current state of play

    • Ian D Pavord,
    • Peter G Gibson
    Thorax 2012;67:3 191-192 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-201712

Original articles

Asthma

  • Original article: Use of sputum eosinophil counts to guide management in children with severe asthma

    • Louise Fleming,
    • Nicola Wilson,
    • Nicolas Regamey,
    • Andrew Bush
    Thorax 2012;67:3 193-198 Published Online First: 8 August 2011 doi:10.1136/thx.2010.156836

  • Original article: A systematic review and meta-analysis: tailoring asthma treatment on eosinophilic markers (exhaled nitric oxide or sputum eosinophils)

    • H L Petsky,
    • C J Cates,
    • T J Lasserson,
    • A M Li,
    • C Turner,
    • J A Kynaston,
    • A B Chang
    Thorax 2012;67:3 199-208 Published Online First: 11 October 2010 doi:10.1136/thx.2010.135574

  • Original article: Impaired type I and III interferon response to rhinovirus infection during pregnancy and asthma

    • Rebecca Louise Forbes,
    • Peter G Gibson,
    • Vanessa E Murphy,
    • Peter A B Wark
    Thorax 2012;67:3 209-214 Published Online First: 13 September 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200708
    Editor's Choice

Asthma and the environment

  • Original article: Nocturnal temperature controlled laminar airflow for treating atopic asthma: a randomised controlled trial

    • Robert J Boyle,
    • Christophe Pedroletti,
    • Magnus Wickman,
    • Leif Bjermer,
    • Erkka Valovirta,
    • Ronald Dahl,
    • Andrea Von Berg,
    • Olof Zetterström,
    • John O Warner,
    • for the 4A Study Group
    Thorax 2012;67:3 215-221 Published Online First: 30 November 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200665
    Press Release Open Access

Cystic fibrosis

  • Original article: NMR spectroscopy metabolomic profiling of exhaled breath condensate in patients with stable and unstable cystic fibrosis

    • Paolo Montuschi,
    • Debora Paris,
    • Dominique Melck,
    • Vincenzina Lucidi,
    • Giovanni Ciabattoni,
    • Valeria Raia,
    • Cecilia Calabrese,
    • Andrew Bush,
    • Peter J Barnes,
    • Andrea Motta
    Thorax 2012;67:3 222-228 Published Online First: 21 November 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200072

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

  • Original article: Aclidinium inhibits human lung fibroblast to myofibroblast transition

    • Javier Milara,
    • Adela Serrano,
    • Teresa Peiró,
    • Amadeu Gavaldà,
    • Montserrat Miralpeix,
    • Esteban Jesús Morcillo,
    • Julio Cortijo
    Thorax 2012;67:3 229-237 Published Online First: 28 September 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200376
    Open Access

  • Original article: Time course and pattern of COPD exacerbation onset

    • Shawn D Aaron,
    • Gavin C Donaldson,
    • George A Whitmore,
    • John R Hurst,
    • Tim Ramsay,
    • Jadwiga A Wedzicha
    Thorax 2012;67:3 238-243 Published Online First: 18 October 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200768

Acute lung injury

  • Original article: Selective inhibition of intra-alveolar p55 TNF receptor attenuates ventilator-induced lung injury

    • Szabolcs Bertok,
    • Michael R Wilson,
    • Peter J Morley,
    • Ruud de Wildt,
    • Andrew Bayliffe,
    • Masao Takata
    Thorax 2012;67:3 244-251 Published Online First: 9 December 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200590
    Open Access

Paediatrics

  • Original article: Coarse and fine particles but not ultrafine particles in urban air trigger hospital admission for asthma in children

    • Amne Iskandar,
    • Zorana Jovanovic Andersen,
    • Klaus Bønnelykke,
    • Thomas Ellermann,
    • Klaus Kaae Andersen,
    • Hans Bisgaard
    Thorax 2012;67:3 252-257 Published Online First: 9 December 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200324

Review

  • Review of the British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2011, 7–9 December, London, UK

    • Hannah Kelly Bayes,
    • Alistair Colin Church,
    • Andrew J Fisher
    Thorax 2012;67:3 258-262 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-201597

PostScript

  • Correspondence: GOLD COPD classification and prognostic pessimism regarding ICU admission

    • Andrea Collins,
    • Andrew Walden,
    • Robert Parker
    Thorax 2012;67:3 263 Published Online First: 17 April 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200134

  • Correspondence: Authors' response: ‘What's nice about the new NICE guideline?’

    • John O'Reilly,
    • Michael Rudolf
    Thorax 2012;67:3 263-264 Published Online First: 17 April 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200181

  • Correspondence: Importance of past occupational exposures in the rising incidence of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in the UK

    • C M Barber,
    • D Fishwick
    Thorax 2012;67:3 264 Published Online First: 7 September 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200836

  • Correspondence: Authors' response

    • Vidya Navaratnam,
    • Kate M Fleming,
    • Joe West,
    • C J P Smith,
    • R G Jenkins,
    • Andrew W Fogarty,
    • Richard Hubbard
    Thorax 2012;67:3 264-265 Published Online First: 7 September 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200918

Chest clinic

Obituary

  • Obituary: David Jack (1924–2011) who revolutionised the treatment of asthma

    • Peter J Barnes,
    • Alastair Breckenridge
    Thorax 2012;67:3 266-267 Published Online First: 16 January 2012 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-201522

Opinion

  • Opinion: Non-adherence in difficult asthma: time to take it seriously

    • Liam G Heaney,
    • Rob Horne
    Thorax 2012;67:3 268-270 Published Online First: 18 June 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200257

Basic Science for the Chest Physician

  • Basic science for the chest physician: Genome-wide association studies in lung disease

    • María Soler Artigas,
    • Louise V Wain,
    • Martin D Tobin
    Thorax 2012;67:3 271-273 Published Online First: 19 August 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200724

Pulmonary puzzle

  • Pulmonary puzzle: A 67-year-old woman with fever, multiple lung opacities, visual impairment and acute respiratory failure

    • Leticia Barbosa Kawano-Dourado,
    • Alexandre de Melo Kawassaki,
    • Vera Luiza Capelozzi,
    • Marcos Soares Tavares,
    • Carmen Sílvia Valente Barbas
    Thorax 2012;67:3 273-274 Published Online First: 27 October 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200573

Audit update

  • Audit update: Evidence for a national problem: continued rise in tuberculosis case numbers in urban areas outside London

    • Michelle E Kruijshaar,
    • Ibrahim Abubakar,
    • Martin Dedicoat,
    • Graham H Bothamley,
    • Helen Maguire,
    • Jonathan Moore,
    • Jonathan Crofts,
    • Marc Lipman
    Thorax 2012;67:3 275-277 Published Online First: 10 January 2012 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200850

Guidelines update

  • Guidelines update: Standards of care for occupational asthma: an update

    • David Fishwick,
    • Christopher Michael Barber,
    • Lisa M Bradshaw,
    • Jon G Ayres,
    • Richard Barraclough,
    • Sherwood Burge,
    • Jonathan M Corne,
    • Paul Cullinan,
    • Timothy Laszlo Frank,
    • David Hendrick,
    • Jennifer Hoyle,
    • Andrew D Curran,
    • Robert Niven,
    • Tony Pickering,
    • Peter Reid,
    • Alastair Robertson,
    • Chris Stenton,
    • Christopher J Warburton,
    • Paul J Nicholson
    Thorax 2012;67:3 278-280 Published Online First: 9 December 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200755

Miscellanea

  • Journal club: Statins may decrease all cause mortality in pneumonia

    • Hugo Gemal
    Thorax 2012;67:3 198 Published Online First: 23 August 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200826

  • Journal club: A possible mechanism of drug tolerance in mycobacteria

    • S V Ranson
    Thorax 2012;67:3 214 Published Online First: 31 July 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200800

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