Thorax: 69 (7)

Airwaves

Highlights from this issue Free
Andrew Bush, Ian Pavord

Editorials

The devastating power of platelets in COPD exacerbations: can aspirin save lives in COPD?
Don D Sin
Using absolute risks to assess the risks and benefits of treatment
Mitchell H Gail
Red, amber and green: the role of the lung in de-priming active systemic neutrophils
Elizabeth Sapey, Robert A Stockley

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Original article: Thrombocytosis is associated with increased short and long term mortality after exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a role for antiplatelet therapy?
Michelle T Harrison, Philip Short, Peter A Williamson, Aran Singanayagam, James D Chalmers, Stuart Schembri
Original article: Benefits and harms of roflumilast in moderate to severe COPD
Tsung Yu, Kevin Fain, Cynthia M Boyd, Sonal Singh, Carlos O Weiss, Tianjing Li, Ravi Varadhan, Milo A Puhan

Critical care

Original article: Pulmonary retention of primed neutrophils: a novel protective host response, which is impaired in the acute respiratory distress syndrome
Charlotte Summers, Nanak R Singh, Jessica F White, Iain M Mackenzie, Andrew Johnston, Chandra Solanki, K K Balan, A Michael Peters, Edwin R Chilvers

Environmental exposure

Original article: Shifted T-cell polarisation after agricultural dust exposure in mice and men
P Robbe, EAJ Spierenburg, C Draijer, CA Brandsma, E Telenga, AJM van Oosterhout, M van den Berge, M Luinge, BN Melgert, D Heederik, W Timens, IM Wouters, MN Hylkema

Lung cancer

Original article: Systemic but not topical TRAIL-expressing mesenchymal stem cells reduce tumour growth in malignant mesothelioma
Elizabeth K Sage, Krishna K Kolluri, Katrina McNulty, Sofia Da Silva Lourenco, Tammy L Kalber, Katherine L Ordidge, Derek Davies, Y C Gary Lee, Adam Giangreco, Sam M Janes
Original article: Atypical carcinoid tumours of the lung: prognostic factors and patterns of recurrence
M A Cañizares, J M Matilla, A Cueto, J Algar, I Muguruza, N Moreno-Mata, R Moreno-Balsalobre, R Guijarro, R Arrabal, E Garcia-Fontan, A Gonzalez-Piñeiro, M Garcia-Yuste, EMETNE-SEPAR Members

Paediatric lung disease

Original article: Carbon in airway macrophages from children with asthma
Rossa E Brugha, Naseem Mushtaq, Thomas Round, Dev H Gadhvi, Isobel Dundas, Erol Gaillard, Lee Koh, Louise J Fleming, Daniel J Lewis, Marek Sanak, Helen E Wood, Benjamin Barratt, Ian S Mudway, Frank J Kelly, Christopher J Griffiths, Jonathan Grigg

Respiratory epidemiology

Original article: Epidemiological time series studies of PM_2.5 and daily mortality and hospital admissions: a systematic review and meta-analysis
R W Atkinson, S Kang, H R Anderson, I C Mills, H A Walton

Review

Lessons from ECLIPSE: a review of COPD biomarkers
Rosa Faner, Ruth Tal-Singer, John H Riley, Bartolomé Celli, Jørgen Vestbo, William MacNee, Per Bakke, Peter M A Calverley, Harvey Coxson, Courtney Crim, Lisa D Edwards, Nick Locantore, David A Lomas, Bruce E Miller, Stephen I Rennard, Emiel F M Wouters, Julie C Yates, Edwin K Silverman, Alvar Agusti

Research letter

The impact of azithromycin therapy on the airway microbiota in asthma
Mariel Slater, Damian W Rivett, Lisa Williams, Matthew Martin, Tim Harrison, Ian Sayers, Kenneth D Bruce, Dominick Shaw

PostScript

Correspondence: Complete endosonographic staging of lung cancer
Jouke T Annema
Correspondence: Author's response to ‘Complete (EBUS and EUS) endosonographic staging of lung cancer’
Bin Hwangbo, Hyo Jae Kang
Correspondence: CAP and HCAP are different? An unresolved question
Marco Falcone, Alessandro Russo, Mario Venditti
Correspondence: Author’s response to ‘CAP and HCAP are different? An unresolved question’
Eva Polverino, Antoni Torres, on behalf of the HCAP study group

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Audit, research and guideline update: Cost effectiveness of endosonography versus surgical staging in potentially resectable lung cancer: a health economics analysis of the ASTER trial from a European perspective
Robert C Rintoul, Matthew J Glover, Christopher Jackson, Victoria Hughes, Kurt G Tournoy, Christophe Dooms, Jouke T Annema, Linda D Sharples

Basic science for the chest physician

Basic science for the chest physician: Protease-mediated ectodomain shedding
Peter Clark

Case based discussions

Case based discussions: Recurrent pneumothoraces in a 17-year-old man with mixed connective tissue disease
Claire McBrien, Andrea Penketh, Hilary Johnson, Andrew G Nicholson, Athol Wells

Images in thorax

Images in thorax: A unique pulmonary vascular pattern: bilateral anomalous single pulmonary veins
Arthur Soares Souza, Luciana Soares de Souza, Gláucia Zanetti, Edson Marchiori

Journal club summaries

Journal club summaries: What's hot the other lot got
Benjamin Prudon

Miscellanea

Journal club: Hospitalisation rates for pneumonia following the introduction of a pneumococcal vaccination
W Jones

Corrections

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July 2014 - Volume 69 - 7

Airwaves

Editorials

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Critical care

Environmental exposure

Lung cancer

Paediatric lung disease

Respiratory epidemiology

Review

Research letter

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Basic science for the chest physician

Case based discussions

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Miscellanea

Corrections

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Table of contents

July 2014 - Volume 69 - 7

Airwaves

Editorials

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Critical care

Environmental exposure

Lung cancer

Paediatric lung disease

Respiratory epidemiology

Review

Research letter

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Basic science for the chest physician

Case based discussions

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Miscellanea

Corrections

Issue Information