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Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (11 August, 2014) Free
Andrew Bush, Ian Pavord

Editorials

Trials of home mechanical ventilation in COPD: what have we learnt? (13 June, 2014) Free
P B Murphy, N Hart
The early origins of COPD in severe asthma: the one thing that leads to another or the two things that come together? (9 May, 2014) Free
Joerg Mattes, Peter G Gibson

HOT off the breath

Hot off the breath: a big step forward for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (4 July, 2014) Free
Christopher J Ryerson, Harold R Collard

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Original article: The Clinical COPD Questionnaire: response to pulmonary rehabilitation and minimal clinically important difference (22 October, 2013) Free
Samantha S C Kon, Deniz Dilaver, Manvi Mittal, Claire M Nolan, Amy L Clark, Jane L Canavan, Sarah E Jones, Michael I Polkey, William D-C Man
Original article: Prognostic evaluation of COPD patients: GOLD 2011 versus BODE and the COPD comorbidity index COTE (26 June, 2014) Free
Juan P de Torres, Ciro Casanova, Jose M Marín, Victor Pinto-Plata, Miguel Divo, Javier J Zulueta, Juan Berto, Jorge Zagaceta, Pablo Sanchez-Salcedo, Carlos Cabrera, Santiago Carrizo, Claudia Cote, Bartolome R Celli
Original article: The association between childhood asthma and adult chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (19 March, 2014) Free
Andrew Tai, Haily Tran, Mary Roberts, Nadeene Clarke, John Wilson, Colin F Robertson
Original article: Impaired innate immune alveolar macrophage response and the predilection for COPD exacerbations (31 March, 2014) Free
Charles S Berenson, Ragina L Kruzel, Ellana Eberhardt, Ree Dolnick, Hans Minderman, Paul K Wallace, Sanjay Sethi

Critical care

Original article: Human mesenchymal stem cells reduce the severity of acute lung injury in a sheep model of bacterial pneumonia (2 June, 2014) Free
Sven Asmussen, Hiroshi Ito, Daniel L Traber, Jae W Lee, Robert A Cox, Hal K Hawkins, Daniel F McAuley, David H McKenna, Lillian D Traber, Hanjing Zhuo, Jennifer Wilson, David N Herndon, Donald S Prough, Kathleen D Liu, Michael A Matthay, Perenlei Enkhbaatar

Non-invasive ventilation

Original article: Nocturnal non-invasive ventilation in COPD patients with prolonged hypercapnia after ventilatory support for acute respiratory failure: a randomised, controlled, parallel-group study (29 April, 2014) Free
F M Struik, R T M Sprooten, H A M Kerstjens, G Bladder, M Zijnen, J Asin, N A M Cobben, J M Vonk, P J Wijkstra

Pulmonary vasculature

Original article: Factors associated with clinical deterioration shortly after PE (20 May, 2014) Free
Christopher Kabrhel, Ikenna Okechukwu, Praveen Hariharan, James Kimo Takayesu, Peter MacMahon, Faris Haddad, Yuchiao Chang

Respiratory epidemiology

Original article: Mesothelioma risk after 40 years since first exposure to asbestos: a pooled analysis (19 May, 2014) Free
A Reid, N H de Klerk, C Magnani, D Ferrante, G Berry, A W Musk, E Merler

Tuberculosis

Original article:
The effectiveness of BCG vaccination in preventing Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and disease in Greenland
(26 June, 2014) Free
S W Michelsen, B Soborg, A Koch, L Carstensen, S T Hoff, E M Agger, T Lillebaek, H C F Sorensen, J Wohlfahrt, M Melbye

Review

The path to personalised medicine in COPD (29 April, 2014) Free
Alvar Agusti

Research letters

Mortality of patients with COPD participating in chronic disease management programmes: a happy end? (9 April, 2014) Free
I Peytremann-Bridevaux, P Taffe, B Burnand, P O Bridevaux, M A Puhan
The first reference equations for the 6-minute walk distance over a 10 m course (24 April, 2014) Free
Emmylou Beekman, Ilse Mesters, Rik Gosselink, Mariska P M Klaassen, Erik J M Hendriks, Onno C P Van Schayck, Rob A de Bie

PostScript

Correspondence: Disentangling the discordance between epidemiological associations and physiological mechanisms (23 April, 2014) Free
Sanja Stanojevic, Tim J Cole, Janet Stocks, Philip H Quanjer
Correspondence: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease mortality and prevalence: the associations with smoking and poverty: a BOLD analysis—authors’ reply (1 May, 2014) Free
Peter Burney, Bernet Kato, Christer Janson, David Mannino, Michael Studnicka, Wan Tan, Eric Bateman, Ali Koçabas, William M Vollmer, Thorarrin Gislason, Guy Marks, Parvaiz A Koul, Louisa Gnatiuc, Sonia Buist
Correspondence: The good the bad and the ugly (23 April, 2014) Free
Paul A Corris, Sasiharan Sithamparanathan, Logan Thirugnanasothy
Correspondence: Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo (1 May, 2014) Free
Rajeev Saggar, Dinesh Khanna, Paul R Forfia, Rajan Saggar

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Audit, research and guideline update: Child uptake of smoking by area across the UK (4 December, 2013)
Nicholas S Hopkinson, Adam Lester-George, Nick Ormiston-Smith, Alison Cox, Deborah Arnott

Basic science for the chest physician

Basic science for the chest physician: The exposome: a new paradigm to study the impact of environment on health (6 June, 2014) Free
Martine Vrijheid

Pulmonary puzzles

Pulmonary puzzles: Fever, thoracic pain, skin lesions and Hampton hump (24 April, 2014) Free
Germana Rocha Torres, Joana Acar, Ana Carolina Brito, Nelson Pimentel, Nadja Polisseni, Cláudia Henrique da Costa, Rogério Rufino

Opinion

Opinion: Chronic cough: from a complex dysfunction of the neurological circuit to the production of persistent cough (26 June, 2014) Free
Adalberto Pacheco

Images in thorax

Images in thorax: Pleuropericardial effusion: a diagnostic conundrum (6 August, 2013) Free
Sachin Kumar, Suman Lata, Yashwant Patidar

Journal club summaries

Journal club summaries: What's hot that the other lot got (11 August, 2014) Free
Candy Lee

Miscellanea

Journal club: 5 versus 14 days of prednisone for acute COPD exacerbations (10 September, 2013) Free
Laura J Quint
Journal club: Pneumonia and inhaled corticosteroids in COPD (25 September, 2013) Free
Avais Jabbar

Corrections

Correction (11 August, 2014) Free
Correction (11 August, 2014) Free

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September 2014 - Volume 69 - 9

Airwaves

Editorials

HOT off the breath

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Critical care

Non-invasive ventilation

Pulmonary vasculature

Respiratory epidemiology

Tuberculosis

Review

Research letters

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Basic science for the chest physician

Pulmonary puzzles

Opinion

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Miscellanea

Corrections

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Table of contents

September 2014 - Volume 69 - 9

Airwaves

Editorials

HOT off the breath

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Critical care

Non-invasive ventilation

Pulmonary vasculature

Respiratory epidemiology

Tuberculosis

Review

Research letters

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Basic science for the chest physician

Pulmonary puzzles

Opinion

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Miscellanea

Corrections

Issue Information