Table of contents

Original article

• Rapid onset asthma: a severe but uncommon manifestation (1 April, 1998)

  J Kolbe, W Fergusson, J Garrett
• Airway wall thickness in patients with near fatal asthma and control groups: assessment with high resolution computed tomographic scanning (1 April, 1998)

  Nasser Awadh, Nestor L Müller, Chan S Park, Raja T Abboud, J Mark FitzGerald
• Chlamydia pneumoniae and asthma

  (1 April, 1998)

  P J Cook, P Davies, W Tunnicliffe, J G Ayres, D Honeybourne, R Wise
• Induction of IL-8 production in human alveolar macrophages and human bronchial epithelial cells in vitro by swine dust (1 April, 1998)

  Lena Palmberg, Britt-Marie Larsson, Per Malmberg, Kjell Larsson
• Clinical features and prognosis of life time non-smokers with severe α₁-antitrypsin deficiency

  (1 April, 1998)

  Niels Seersholm, Axel Kok-Jensen
• Effects of theophylline and ipratropium bromide on exercise performance in patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (1 April, 1998)

  Mitsuhiro Tsukino, Koichi Nishimura, Akihiko Ikeda, Takashi Hajiro, Hiroshi Koyama, Takateru Izumi
• Clinical profiles of Chinese patients with diffuse panbronchiolitis (1 April, 1998)

  Kenneth W T Tsang, Clara G C Ooi, Mary S M Ip, Wah-kit Lam, Henry Ngan, Eric Y T Chan, Brian Hawkins, Chu-shak Ho, Ryoichi Amitani, Eisaku Tanaka, Harumi Itoh
• Medium term results of lung transplantation for end stage pulmonary sarcoidosis (1 April, 1998)

  Stuart Walker, Ghada Mikhail, Nicholas Banner, John Partridge, Asghar Khaghani, Margaret Burke, Magdi Yacoub
• Totally implantable venous access devices in children with cystic fibrosis: incidence and type of complications (1 April, 1998)

  J Deerojanawong, S M Sawyer, A M Fink, K B Stokes, C F Robertson