Thorax: 71 (4)

Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (14 March, 2016) Free
Nicholas Hart, Gisli Jenkins, Alan Smyth

Editorials

Managing acute hypercapnic respiratory failure in adults: where do we need to get to? (14 March, 2016) Free
A Craig Davidson
Telemonitoring in patients with chronic respiratory insufficiency: expectations deluded? (9 March, 2016) Free
Michele Vitacca
Morbidity associated with oral corticosteroids in patients with severe asthma (22 February, 2016) Free
Xue Ning Choo, Ian D Pavord

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Original article: Randomised crossover trial of telemonitoring in chronic respiratory patients (TeleCRAFT trial) (9 March, 2016)
M Chatwin, G Hawkins, L Panicchia, A Woods, A Hanak, R Lucas, E Baker, E Ramhamdany, B Mann, J Riley, M R Cowie, A K Simonds
Original article: A pro-inflammatory role for the Frizzled-8 receptor in chronic bronchitis (21 January, 2016) Free
Anita I R Spanjer, Mark H Menzen, Akkelies E Dijkstra, Maarten van den Berge, H Marike Boezen, David C Nickle, Don D Sin, Yohan Bossé, Corry-Anke Brandsma, Wim Timens, Dirkje S Postma, Herman Meurs, Irene H Heijink, Reinoud Gosens

Cough

Original article: Neural correlates of cough hypersensitivity in humans: evidence for central sensitisation and dysfunctional inhibitory control (9 February, 2016) Free
Ayaka Ando, David Smallwood, Marcus McMahon, Louis Irving, Stuart B Mazzone, Michael J Farrell

Environmental exposure

Original article: Historic air pollution exposure and long-term mortality risks in England and Wales: prospective longitudinal cohort study (8 February, 2016)
Anna Hansell, Rebecca E Ghosh, Marta Blangiardo, Chloe Perkins, Danielle Vienneau, Kayoung Goffe, David Briggs, John Gulliver

Asthma

Original article: Comorbidity in severe asthma requiring systemic corticosteroid therapy: cross-sectional data from the Optimum Patient Care Research Database and the British Thoracic Difficult Asthma Registry (27 January, 2016) Free
Joan Sweeney, Chris C Patterson, Andrew Menzies-Gow, Rob M Niven, Adel H Mansur, Christine Bucknall, Rekha Chaudhuri, David Price, Chris E Brightling, Liam G Heaney

Sleep

Original article: Distinct severity stages of obstructive sleep apnoea are correlated with unique dyslipidaemia: large-scale observational study (16 February, 2016)
Jian Guan, Hongliang Yi, Jianyin Zou, Lili Meng, Xulan Tang, Huaming Zhu, Dongzhen Yu, Huiqun Zhou, Kaiming Su, Mingpo Yang, Haoyan Chen, Yongyong Shi, Yue Wang, Jian Wang, Shankai Yin

Tuberculosis

Original article: Mind the gap: TB trends in the USA and the UK, 2000–2011 (23 February, 2016) Free
Chimeremma D Nnadi, Laura F Anderson, Lori R Armstrong, Helen R Stagg, Debora Pedrazzoli, Robert Pratt, Charles M Heilig, Ibrahim Abubakar, Patrick K Moonan

Reviews

Farewell, king coal! (8 February, 2016) Free
Anthony Seaton
Pulmonary nodules and CT screening: the past, present and future (26 February, 2016)
M Ruparel, S L Quaife, N Navani, J Wardle, S M Janes, D R Baldwin

Research letters

Cherry-flavoured electronic cigarettes expose users to the inhalation irritant, benzaldehyde (28 January, 2016) Free
Leon Kosmider, Andrzej Sobczak, Adam Prokopowicz, Jolanta Kurek, Marzena Zaciera, Jakub Knysak, Danielle Smith, Maciej L Goniewicz
Lung transplantation for pulmonary sarcoidosis. Twenty-five years of experience in the USA (18 January, 2016) Free
Ziad Taimeh, Marshall I Hertz, Sara Shumway, Marc Pritzker

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Audit, research and guideline update: MesobanK UK: an international mesothelioma bioresource (14 October, 2015)
Robert C Rintoul, Doris M Rassl, Jacki Gittins, Stefan J Marciniak

Case based discussions

Case based discussions:
A patient with complex multiple genomic ALK alterations
(2 February, 2016) Free
Xin Liu, Shawn J Rice, Carlos A Jamis-Dow, Catherine Abendroth, Siraj Ali, Salah Almokadem, Chandra P Belani

Images in thorax

Images in thorax: Man in the bubble (23 September, 2015) Free
Yu-Huei Li, Chung-Kan Peng
Images in thorax: Primary mediastinal small cell melanoma achieved by EBUS-TBNA (30 December, 2015) Free
Sebastian Fernandez-Bussy, Gonzalo Labarca, Alex Castro, Ivan Caviedes
Images in thorax: Endobronchial metastasised endometrial stromal sarcoma (7 December, 2015) Free
Xi-Qian Xing, Yi Xiao, Yan-Hong Liu, Yan-Li Li, Xu-Wei Wu

Journal club summaries

Journal club summaries: What's hot that the other lot got (14 March, 2016) Free
Ben Soar

Correction

Correction (15 February, 2016) Free

Main menu

Table of contents

April 2016 - Volume 71 - 4

Airwaves

Editorials

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Cough

Environmental exposure

Asthma

Sleep

Tuberculosis

Reviews

Research letters

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Case based discussions

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Correction

Issue Information

Log in using your username and password

Main menu

Log in using your username and password

You are here

Table of contents

April 2016 - Volume 71 - 4

Airwaves

Editorials

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Cough

Environmental exposure

Asthma

Sleep

Tuberculosis

Reviews

Research letters

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Case based discussions

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Correction

Issue Information