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Editorials

Hunting for a pleural fluid test for mesothelioma: is soluble mesothelin the answer? (28 June, 2007)
Y C Gary Lee
Pulmonary coagulopathy: a potential therapeutic target in different forms of lung injury (28 June, 2007)
Marcus J Schultz, Marcel Levi

Airwaves

AIRWAVES (28 June, 2007) Free
Wisia Wedzicha

Lung cancer

Diagnosis of lung cancer by the analysis of exhaled breath with a colorimetric sensor array (27 February, 2007)
Peter J Mazzone, Jeffrey Hammel, Raed Dweik, Jie Na, Carmen Czich, Daniel Laskowski, Tarek Mekhail
Soluble mesothelin in effusions: a useful tool for the diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma (13 March, 2007) Free
Jenette Creaney, Deborah Yeoman, Leanne K Naumoff, Michelle Hof, Amanda Segal, Arthur William Musk, Nicholas De Klerk, Nora Horick, Steven J Skates, Bruce W S Robinson
Is the initial feasibility of lobectomy for stage I non-small cell lung cancer in severe heterogeneous emphysema justified by long-term survival? (8 February, 2007)
Antonio E Martin-Ucar, Khaleel R Fareed, Apostolos Nakas, Paul Vaughan, John G Edwards, David A Waller

Asthma

Development and validation of database indexes of asthma severity and control (7 February, 2007)
Faranak Firoozi, Catherine Lemière, Marie-France Beauchesne, Amélie Forget, Lucie Blais

Miscellanea

Combination treatment may help patients with COPD, but does not improve mortality (28 June, 2007)
Sundari Ampikaipakan
CT screening for lung cancer not shown to reduce mortality (28 June, 2007)
David Hodgson
Prolonged fever, dyspnoea and diffuse pleural thickening in a 20-year-old man (28 June, 2007)
C Cai, D R Li, Q S Zeng, S Q Zhong, N S Zhong
Answer (28 June, 2007)
Risk factors associated with superspreading events in SARS (28 June, 2007)
Ali A Mohammed

Acute respiratory distress syndrome

Patients with ARDS show improvement but not normalisation of alveolar surface activity with surfactant treatment: putative role of neutral lipids (7 February, 2007)
Philipp Markart, Clemens Ruppert, Malgorzata Wygrecka, Thorsten Colaris, Bhola Dahal, Dieter Walmrath, Heinz Harbach, Jochen Wilhelm, Werner Seeger, Reinhold Schmidt, Andreas Guenther

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Profiling serum biomarkers in patients with COPD: associations with clinical parameters (13 March, 2007)
Victor Pinto-Plata, John Toso, Kwan Lee, Daniel Park, John Bilello, Hana Mullerova, Mary M De Souza, Rupert Vessey, Bartolome Celli

Exhaled markers

Increased alveolar nitric oxide concentration and high levels of leukotriene B₄ and 8-isoprostane in exhaled breath condensate in patients with asbestosis
(24 January, 2007)
Hannele Lehtonen, Panu Oksa, Lauri Lehtimäki, Anna Sepponen, Riina Nieminen, Hannu Kankaanranta, Seppo Saarelainen, Ritva Järvenpää, Jukka Uitti, Eeva Moilanen

Acute lung injury

The alveolar epithelium can initiate the extrinsic coagulation cascade through expression of tissue factor (13 March, 2007)
Julie A Bastarache, Ling Wang, Thomas Geiser, Zhengming Wang, Kurt H Albertine, Michael A Matthay, Lorraine B Ware

Pulmonary hypertension

Demographic features, BMPR2 status and outcomes in distal chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (7 February, 2007)
Jay Suntharalingam, Rajiv D Machado, Linda D Sharples, Mark R Toshner, Karen K Sheares, Rodney J Hughes, David P Jenkins, Richard C Trembath, Nicholas W Morrell, Joanna Pepke-Zaba

Emphysema

Transpleural ventilation of explanted human lungs (5 April, 2007)
Cliff K Choong, Peter T Macklem, John A Pierce, Stephen S Lefrak, Jason C Woods, Mark S Conradi, Dimitry A Yablonskiy, James C Hogg, Kimiaki Chino, Joel D Cooper

Epidemiology

Recorded infections and antibiotics in early life: associations with allergy in UK children and their parents (8 February, 2007)
Jessica M Harris, Pamela Mills, Carol White, Susan Moffat, Anthony J Newman Taylor, Paul Cullinan

Review series

Challenges in pulmonary fibrosis · 2 : Bronchiolocentric fibrosis (28 June, 2007)
Jean-François Cordier

Letters to the editor

Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is expressed in human bone (28 June, 2007)
Elizabeth F Shead, Charles S Haworth, Alison M Condliffe, Damian J McKeon, Mike A Scott, Juliet E Compston
Obstructive sleep apnoea in patients with type 2 diabetes (28 June, 2007)
Emer Kelly, Garret Cullen, Colm McGurk
Screening for type 2 diabetes in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (28 June, 2007)
C Snelson, R Chandrappa, H Moudgil

Images in Thorax

Persistent diffuse pulmonary interstitial emphysema mimicking pulmonary emphysema (28 June, 2007)
Y Demura, T Ishizaki, M Nakanishi, S Ameshima, H Itoh

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Table of contents

July 2007 - Volume 62 - 7

Editorials

Airwaves

Lung cancer

Asthma

Miscellanea

Acute respiratory distress syndrome

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Exhaled markers

Acute lung injury

Pulmonary hypertension

Emphysema

Epidemiology

Review series

Letters to the editor

Images in Thorax

Issue Information

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Table of contents

July 2007 - Volume 62 - 7

Editorials

Airwaves

Lung cancer

Asthma

Miscellanea

Acute respiratory distress syndrome

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Exhaled markers

Acute lung injury

Pulmonary hypertension

Emphysema

Epidemiology

Review series

Letters to the editor

Images in Thorax

Issue Information