Table of contents

Original article

• Fibroproliferation and mast cells in the acute respiratory distress syndrome (1 October, 1998)

  Janice M Liebler, Zhenhong Qu, Brenda Buckner, Michael R Powers, James T Rosenbaum
• Usefulness of d-dimer, blood gas, and respiratory rate measurements for excluding pulmonary embolism

  (1 October, 1998)

  Paul Egermayer, G Ian Town, John G Turner, David C Heaton, Amanda L Mee, Michael E J Beard
• Effect of the leukotriene receptor antagonist pranlukast on cellular infiltration in the bronchial mucosa of patients with asthma (1 October, 1998)

  Yutaka Nakamura, Makoto Hoshino, Jae Joon Sim, Koji Ishii, Kimio Hosaka, Teruo Sakamoto
• Air pollution, pollens, and daily admissions for asthma in London 1987–92 (1 October, 1998)

  H R Anderson, A Ponce de Leon, J M Bland, J S Bower, J Emberlin, D P Strachan
• An improved murine model of asthma: selective airway inflammation, epithelial lesions and increased methacholine responsiveness following chronic exposure to aerosolised allergen (1 October, 1998)

  Jason Temelkovski, Simon P Hogan, Darren P Shepherd, Paul S Foster, Rakesh K Kumar
• Pulmonary artery pressure variation in patients with connective tissue disease: 24 hour ambulatory pulmonary artery pressure monitoring (1 October, 1998)

  D A Raeside, G Chalmers, J Clelland, R Madhok, A J Peacock
• Survey of non-invasive ventilation (NIPPV) in patients with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the UK (1 October, 1998)

  M J Doherty, M A Greenstone
• Increased levels of exhaled carbon monoxide in bronchiectasis: a new marker of oxidative stress (1 October, 1998)

  I Horvath, S Loukides, T Wodehouse, S A Kharitonov, P J Cole, P J Barnes
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA in tissues affected by sarcoidosis

  (1 October, 1998)

  M L Wilsher, R E Menzies, M C Croxson