Airwaves:

Airwaves

Wisia Wedzicha

Thorax 2009; 64: i. doi:10.1136/thx.2009.122812

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Editorials:

Lung function effects of chronic exposure to air pollution

Jordi Sunyer

Thorax 2009; 64: 645-646. doi:10.1136/thx.2009.115071

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Can traffic-related air pollution cause asthma?

John R Balmes

Thorax 2009; 64: 646-647. doi:10.1136/thx.2009.116418

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Pulmonary infection in Wegener's granulomatosis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Nicholas Kim Harrison

Thorax 2009; 64: 647-649. doi:10.1136/thx.2009.115089

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Where there’s smoke... there’s tuberculosis

Stephen Gordon and Jamie Rylance

Thorax 2009; 64: 649-650. doi:10.1136/thx.2009.116400

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Images in Thorax:

Free-floating right atrial thrombus with acute pulmonary embolism

X Hou, W Liu, Z Zhang, and Z Li

Thorax 2009; 64: 736. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.108217

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Respiratory infection:

Pulmonary infection in Wegener granulomatosis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

A G Richter, R A Stockley, L Harper, and D R Thickett

Thorax 2009; 64: 692-697.
Published Online First: 8 April 2009. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.110445

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Environmental exposure:

Childhood peak flow and the Oxford Transport Strategy

S J MacNeill, F Goddard, R Pitman, S Tharme, and P Cullinan

Thorax 2009; 64: 651-656.
Published Online First: 3 December 2008. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.101360

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Chronic exposure to outdoor air pollution and lung function in adults

L J L Forbes, V Kapetanakis, A R Rudnicka, D G Cook, T Bush, J R Stedman, P H Whincup, D P Strachan, and H R Anderson

Thorax 2009; 64: 657-663.
Published Online First: 8 April 2009. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.109389

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Traffic-related air pollution correlates with adult-onset asthma among never-smokers

N Künzli, P-O Bridevaux, L-J S Liu, R Garcia-Esteban, C Schindler, M W Gerbase, J Sunyer, D Keidel, T Rochat on behalf of SAPALDIA Team (Swiss Cohort Study on Air Pollution and Lung Diseases in Adults)

Thorax 2009; 64: 664-670.
Published Online First: 8 April 2009. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.110031

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease:

Associations of IL6 polymorphisms with lung function decline and COPD

J-Q He, M G Foreman, K Shumansky, X Zhang, L Akhabir, D D Sin, S F P Man, D L DeMeo, A A Litonjua, E K Silverman, J E Connett, N R Anthonisen, R A Wise, P D Paré, and A J Sandford

Thorax 2009; 64: 698-704.
Published Online First: 8 April 2009. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.111278

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Pneumonia:

Does early review by a respiratory physician lead to a shorter length of stay for patients with non-severe community-acquired pneumonia?

T Bewick, V J Cooper, and W S Lim

Thorax 2009; 64: 709-712.
Published Online First: 21 April 2009. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.109983

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Airway biology:

Granulocyte–macrophage colony-stimulating factor expression in induced sputum and bronchial mucosa in asthma and COPD

S Saha, C Doe, V Mistry, S Siddiqui, D Parker, M Sleeman, E S Cohen, and C E Brightling

Thorax 2009; 64: 671-676.
Published Online First: 12 February 2009. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.108290

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Paediatric lung biology:

Serum KL-6 differentiates neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy from the inborn errors of surfactant metabolism

M L Doan, O Elidemir, M K Dishop, H Zhang, E O Smith, P G Black, R R Deterding, D M Roberts, Q A Al-Salmi, and L L Fan

Thorax 2009; 64: 677-681.
Published Online First: 22 February 2009. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.107979

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Cystic fibrosis:

Phenotypic characterisation of patients with intermediate sweat chloride values: towards validation of the European diagnostic algorithm for cystic fibrosis

C Goubau, M Wilschanski, V Skalická, P Lebecque, K W Southern, I Sermet, A Munck, N Derichs, P G Middleton, L Hjelte, R Padoan, M Vasar, and K De Boeck

Thorax 2009; 64: 683-691.
Published Online First: 23 March 2009. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.104752

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Tuberculosis:

Association between biomass fuel and pulmonary tuberculosis: a nested case–control study

C Kolappan and R Subramani

Thorax 2009; 64: 705-708.
Published Online First: 8 April 2009. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.109405

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Respiratory physiology:

Qualitative aspects of breathlessness in health and disease

J Smith, P Albert, E Bertella, J Lester, S Jack, and P Calverley

Thorax 2009; 64: 713-718.
Published Online First: 21 April 2009. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.104869

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Neural respiratory drive in obesity

J Steier, C J Jolley, J Seymour, M Roughton, M I Polkey, and J Moxham

Thorax 2009; 64: 719-725.
Published Online First: 21 April 2009. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.109728

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Review:

The overlap syndrome of asthma and COPD: what are its features and how important is it?

P G Gibson and J L Simpson

Thorax 2009; 64: 728-735. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.108027

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Case report:

Extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal to "protect" the lung

S L Stirling, J J Cordingley, D N Hunter, M J Griffiths, S J Wort, T W Evans, and S J Finney

Thorax 2009; 64: 726-727. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.098731

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Pulmonary puzzle:

ANSWER

Thorax 2009; 64: 697. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.106260a

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Miscellanea:

A newly developed lung nodule during chemotherapy for small cell lung cancer

M S Kang, G Y Noh, D H Choe, C H Kim, and J C Lee

Thorax 2009; 64: 682. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.106260

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Vitamin D levels are inversely proportional to the "common cold"

W Thomas and R Quadery

Thorax 2009; 64: 704.

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Potential treatment for XDR-TB?

G Tack

Thorax 2009; 64: 725.

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Which COPD patients should be admitted to the ICU?

C Subbe

Thorax 2009; 64: 735.

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