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Research Article

• Exercise-induced asthma. (1 October, 1979)

  J P Hartley
• Pierre Adolphe Piorry (1794-1879): pioneer of percussion and pleximetry. (1 October, 1979)

  A Sakula
• Running, walking, and hyperventilation causing asthma in children. (1 October, 1979)

  H Kilham, M Tooley, M Silverman
• Rapidly fatal pulmonary fibrosis: the accelerated variant of interstitial pneumonitis. (1 October, 1979)

  D S Pratt, M I Schwartz, J J May, R B Dreisin
• Peripheral vascular resistance and angiotensin II levels during pulsatile and no-pulsatile cardiopulmonary bypass. (1 October, 1979)

  K M Taylor, W H Bain, M Russell, J J Brannan, I J Morton
• Surgery of the ascending aorta: five years' experience at a regional cardiac centre. (1 October, 1979)

  P G Reasbeck, J L Monro, J K Ross, N Conway, A M Johnson
• Dissection of an aneurysmal ascending aorta in association with coarctation of the aorta. (1 October, 1979)

  R A Lawson, A Fenn
• Surgical management of bronchial carcinoma invading the chest wall. (1 October, 1979)

  M P Jamieson, P R Walbaum, R J McCormack
• Resection of proximal left main bronchus carcinoma. (1 October, 1979)

  R A Smith, B K Nigam
• Cellular aggregation and trauma in cardiotomy suction systems. (1 October, 1979)

  G Wright, J M Sanderson
• Mixed malignant tumour of the lung. (1 October, 1979)

  C W Edwards, A M Saunders, F Collins
• Lung distensibility and airway function in intermediate alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency (Pi MZ). (1 October, 1979)

  S F Tattersall, R P Pereira, D Hunter, G Blundell, N B Pride
• Chronic lung disease in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. (1 October, 1979)

  H R Anderson
• Inhibition of idiosyncratic reactions to aspirin in asthmatic patients by clemastine. (1 October, 1979)

  A Szczeklik, M Serwonska
• Cardiac and respiratory function before and after spinal fusion in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. (1 October, 1979)

  J M Shneerson, M A Edgar
• Local excision of pulmonary arteriovenous fistulae including the feeding artery and draining vein. (1 October, 1979)

  A L Prior, J J Efthimiou, A K Yates
• Tracheal laceration with massive subcutaneous emphysema: a rare complication of endotracheal intubation. (1 October, 1979)

  D A Orta, J E Cousar, B M Yergin, G N Olsen
• Histocompatibility antigens in asthma: population and family studies. (1 October, 1979)

  C W Turton, L Morris, J A Buckingham, S D Lawler, M Turner-Warwick
• Relapse of fibrosing alveolitis (desquamative interstitial pneumonia) after twelve years. (1 October, 1979)

  A M Hunter, D Lamb
• Primary osteomyelitis of sternum. (1 October, 1979)

  M R Mittapalli
• "Coughing water": bronchial hyperreactivity induced by swimming in a chlorinated pool. (1 October, 1979)

  C P Mustchin, C A Pickering
• Avulsion of the right main stem bronchus associated to a false aneurysm of the right subclavian artery after closed chest trauma. (1 October, 1979)

  J P Barroy, M Gelin, M Van Stratum, J P Dereume, P Vanderhoeft
• Massive intravascular haemolysis due to mitral Björk-Shiley paraprosthetic regurgitation. (1 October, 1979)

  A S Soorae
• Primary meningococcal pericarditis complicated by acute renal failure. (1 October, 1979)

  R H Jones, H Shuhaiber, C Noble, J Keats, V Parsons
• Unilateral pulmonary oedema associated with old poliomyelitis. (1 October, 1979)

  V Hajiroussou, R C Joshi
• Right atrial-pulmonary artery anastomosis: a historical note. (1 October, 1979)

  D E Cassels, P V Moulder