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Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (8 May, 2013) Free
Andrew Bush, Ian Pavord

Editorials

Inhaled corticosteroids in COPD: quantifying risks and benefits (15 December, 2012) Free
Chris Cates
Another chemokine target bites the dust? (5 March, 2013) Free
Roberto Solari
What exactly are we doing to improve low lung cancer survival in the United Kingdom? (10 April, 2013) Free
Eric Lim, Sanjay Popat

Asthma

Original article: Antagonism of chemokine receptor CCR8 is ineffective in a primate model of asthma (1 March, 2013) Free
Lin Wang, Tracy J Jenkins, Mingshi Dai, Wei Yin, Jacqueline C Pulido, Elise LaMantia-Martin, Martin R Hodge, Timothy Ocain, Roland Kolbeck
Original article:
Safety and tolerability of the novel inhaled corticosteroid fluticasone furoate in combination with the β₂ agonist vilanterol administered once daily for 52 weeks in patients ≥12 years old with asthma: a randomised trial
(25 February, 2013)
William W Busse, Paul M O'Byrne, Eugene R Bleecker, Jan Lötvall, Ashley Woodcock, Leslie Andersen, Wesley Hicks, Jodie Crawford, Loretta Jacques, Ludovic Apoux, Eric D Bateman

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Original article: Appearance of remodelled and dendritic cell-rich alveolar-lymphoid interfaces provides a structural basis for increased alveolar antigen uptake in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (14 February, 2013) Free
Michiko Mori, Cecilia K Andersson, Kaj A Svedberg, Pernilla Glader, Anders Bergqvist, Medya Shikhagaie, Claes-Göran Löfdahl, Jonas S Erjefält

Cystic fibrosis

Original article: Changes in physiological, functional and structural markers of cystic fibrosis lung disease with treatment of a pulmonary exacerbation (9 February, 2013) Free
Alex R Horsley, Jane C Davies, Robert D Gray, Kenneth A Macleod, Jackie Donovan, Zelena A Aziz, Nicholas J Bell, Margaret Rainer, Shahrul Mt-Isa, Nia Voase, Maria H Dewar, Clare Saunders, James S Gibson, Javier Parra-Leiton, Mia D Larsen, Sarah Jeswiet, Samia Soussi, Yusura Bakar, Mark G Meister, Philippa Tyler, Ann Doherty, David M Hansell, Deborah Ashby, Stephen C Hyde, Deborah R Gill, Andrew P Greening, David J Porteous, J Alastair Innes, A Christopher Boyd, Uta Griesenbach, Steve Cunningham, Eric WFW Alton

Epidemiology

Original article: Number needed to treat in COPD: exacerbations versus pneumonias (2 November, 2012) Free
Samy Suissa
Original article: Impact of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on pneumonia hospitalisations and mortality among adults in northern Miyagi, Japan: a multicentre observational study (19 February, 2013)
Hisayoshi Daito, Motoi Suzuki, Jun Shiihara, Paul E Kilgore, Hitoshi Ohtomo, Konosuke Morimoto, Masayuki Ishida, Taro Kamigaki, Hitoshi Oshitani, Masahiro Hashizume, Wataru Endo, Koichi Hagiwara, Koya Ariyoshi, Shoji Okinaga

Lung cancer

Original article: Lung cancer survival and stage at diagnosis in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK: a population-based study, 2004–2007 (11 February, 2013) Free
Sarah Walters, Camille Maringe, Michel P Coleman, Michael D Peake, John Butler, Nicholas Young, Stefan Bergström, Louise Hanna, Erik Jakobsen, Karl Kölbeck, Stein Sundstrøm, Gerda Engholm, Anna Gavin, Marianne L Gjerstorff, Juanita Hatcher, Tom Børge Johannesen, Karen M Linklater, Colleen E McGahan, John Steward, Elizabeth Tracey, Donna Turner, Michael A Richards, Bernard Rachet, the ICBP Module 1 Working Group

Occupational lung disease

Original article: Adverse respiratory effects associated with cadmium exposure in small-scale jewellery workshops in India (6 March, 2013) Free
Subhabrata Moitra, Paul D Blanc, Subhashis Sahu

Respiratory infection

Original article: Contribution of host, bacterial factors and antibiotic treatment to mortality in adult patients with bacteraemic pneumococcal pneumonia (26 February, 2013) Free
Pontus Naucler, Jessica Darenberg, Eva Morfeldt, Åke Örtqvist, Birgitta Henriques Normark

Thoracic surgery

Original article: Effectiveness of incentive spirometry in patients following thoracotomy and lung resection including those at high risk for developing pulmonary complications (21 February, 2013) Free
Paula Agostini, Babu Naidu, Hayley Cieslik, Richard Steyn, Pala Babu Rajesh, Ehab Bishay, Maninder Singh Kalkat, Sally Singh

Research letter

Multiple-breath washout measurements can be significantly shortened in children (31 October, 2012) Free
Sophie Yammine, Florian Singer, Chiara Abbas, Markus Roos, Philipp Latzin

PostScript

Correspondence: Inclusion of latent tuberculosis infection as a separate entity into the international classification of diseases (5 November, 2012) Free
Marc Tebruegge, Eeva Salo, Nicole Ritz, Beate Kampmann, On behalf of the Paediatric Tuberculosis Network European Trialsgroup (ptbnet)
Correspondence: Effect of CPAP on the metabolic syndrome: a randomised sham-controlled study (15 January, 2013) Free
CM Hoyos, DR Sullivan, PY Liu
Correspondence: Explaining differential effects of tiotropium on mortality in COPD (31 January, 2013) Free
Brian J Lipworth, Philip M Short
Correspondence: Authors’ reply to ‘Explaining differential effects of tiotropium on mortality in COPD’ (15 March, 2013) Free
Christine Jenkins, Richard Beasley
Correspondence: Benzodiazepines and pneumonia or aspiration pneumonitis (31 January, 2013) Free
Irene Campbell-Taylor
Correspondence: The impact of benzodiazepines on occurrence of pneumonia and mortality from pneumonia: a nested case-control and survival analysis in a population-based cohort (31 January, 2013) Free
Usman Iqbal, Shabbir Syed-Abdul, Phung Anh Nguyen, Wen-Shan Jian, Yu-Chuan (Jack) Li
Correspondence: Author's response (6 February, 2013) Free
Robert D Sanders

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Audit, research and guideline update: Pleurodesis outcome in malignant pleural mesothelioma (7 January, 2013) Free
Edward Thomas Hamilton Fysh, Sze Khen Tan, Catherine Ann Read, Felicity Lee, Kate McKenzie, Nola Olsen, Indunil Weerasena, Timothy Threlfall, Nicholas de Klerk, A William Musk, Y C Gary Lee

Basic science for the chest physician

Basic science for the chest physician: Lymphoid follicles in chronic lung diseases (8 January, 2013) Free
Koshika Yadava, Benjamin J Marsland

Case based discussion

Case based discussion: Exercise-induced haemoptysis: a thoroughbred cause? (12 February, 2013) Free
James H Hull, Andrew Menzies-Gow, Andrew G Nicholson, Raad H Mohiaddin, Toby M Maher

Images in thorax

Images in thorax: Rose Gardener's disease (20 December, 2012) Free
Rogerio Rufino, Bruna Liete Marques, Claudia Henrique Costa

Miscellaneous

Journal club: Alternatives to warfarin for the treatment of pulmonary emboli: the EINSTEIN-PE Study (27 July, 2012) Free
Gareth Hynes
Journal club: Protein kinase G dysfunction is an important factor in induced pulmonary hypertension in mice (24 August, 2012) Free
En-Ting Chang
Journal club:
Oestrogen induces mucoid conversion of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa in women with cystic fibrosis, and increases exacerbations
(25 August, 2012) Free
Gemma Hayes

Correction

Correction (8 May, 2013) Free

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June 2013 - Volume 68 - 6

Airwaves

Editorials

Asthma

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Cystic fibrosis

Epidemiology

Lung cancer

Occupational lung disease

Respiratory infection

Thoracic surgery

Research letter

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Basic science for the chest physician

Case based discussion

Images in thorax

Miscellaneous

Correction

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Table of contents

June 2013 - Volume 68 - 6

Airwaves

Editorials

Asthma

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Cystic fibrosis

Epidemiology

Lung cancer

Occupational lung disease

Respiratory infection

Thoracic surgery

Research letter

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Basic science for the chest physician

Case based discussion

Images in thorax

Miscellaneous

Correction

Issue Information