Thorax: 63 (9)

Airwaves

Airwaves (26 August, 2008) Free

Editorials

COPD, diagrams and traditions: time to move on? (26 August, 2008)
Jørgen Vestbo
What evidence could validate the definition of COPD? (26 August, 2008)
Roberto de Marco
Recent advances in exacerbations of asthma (26 August, 2008)
Annemarie Sykes, Terence Seemungal, ICEAD contributors

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Proportional classifications of COPD phenotypes (26 August, 2008)
S E Marsh, J Travers, M Weatherall, M V Williams, S Aldington, P M Shirtcliffe, A L Hansell, M R Nowitz, A A McNaughton, J B Soriano, R W Beasley
Long-term decline in lung function, utilisation of care and quality of life in modified GOLD stage 1 COPD (27 May, 2008)
P-O Bridevaux, M W Gerbase, N M Probst-Hensch, C Schindler, J-M Gaspoz, T Rochat
Minimum clinically important improvement for the incremental shuttle walking test (4 April, 2008)
S J Singh, P W Jones, R Evans, M D L Morgan

Lung alert

“Prognostic pessimism” in asthma and COPD (26 August, 2008)
S McCarthy
Airway epithelial gene expression to detect lung cancer in smokers (26 August, 2008)
A B Nanguzgambo
Lung transplantation in patients with COPD (26 August, 2008)
A Benrajab

Asthma

Can lay people deliver asthma self-management education as effectively as primary care based practice nurses? (15 February, 2008) Free
M R Partridge, A-L Caress, C Brown, J Hennings, K Luker, A Woodcock, M Campbell
Relative corticosteroid insensitivity of alveolar macrophages in severe asthma compared with non-severe asthma (20 May, 2008)
P Bhavsar, M Hew, N Khorasani, A Torrego, P J Barnes, I Adcock, K F Chung

Paediatrics

Chest physical therapy for children hospitalised with acute pneumonia: a randomised controlled trial (14 February, 2008)
C Paludo, L Zhang, C S Lincho, D V Lemos, G G Real, J A Bergamin

Interstitial lung disease

Overexpression of squamous cell carcinoma antigen in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: clinicopathological correlations (14 March, 2008)
F Calabrese, F Lunardi, C Giacometti, G Marulli, M Gnoato, P Pontisso, M Saetta, M Valente, F Rea, E Perissinotto, C Agostini

Pulmonary puzzle

Acute respiratory distress in a patient using non-invasive ventilation (26 August, 2008)
K S Bonnici, W D-C Man, M I Polkey
Pulmonary puzzle (26 August, 2008)

Sleep-disordered breathing

Ambulatory blood pressure in children with obstructive sleep apnoea: a community based study (3 April, 2008)
A M Li, C T Au, R Y T Sung, C Ho, P C Ng, T F Fok, Y K Wing

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis

Pathogenesis of cBFL in common with IPF? Correlation of IP-10/TARC ratio with histological patterns (14 February, 2008)
M Kishi, Y Miyazaki, T Jinta, H Furusawa, Y Ohtani, N Inase, Y Yoshizawa

Respiratory infection

Incidence and predictive factors of lower respiratory tract infections among the very elderly in the general population. The Leiden 85-plus Study (3 April, 2008)
A Sliedrecht, W P J den Elzen, T J M Verheij, R G J Westendorp, J Gussekloo

Epidemiology

Lifecourse predictors of adult respiratory function: results from the Newcastle Thousand Families Study (11 April, 2008)
P W G Tennant, G John Gibson, M S Pearce

Review

Patient adherence in COPD (26 August, 2008)
J Bourbeau, S J Bartlett

Case Report

Transmission of Pseudomonas aeruginosa epidemic strain from a patient with cystic fibrosis to a pet cat
(26 August, 2008)
K Mohan, J L Fothergill, J Storrar, M J Ledson, C Winstanley, M J Walshaw

Letters

International registry for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (26 August, 2008)
A Guenther, O Eickelberg, K T Preissner, R Chambers, G Laurent, A Wells, B Crestani, C Vancheri, P Bonniaud, P Camus, G Schmitz, W Klepetko, J Schultze, D Vossmeyer, P Stumpf
Authors’ reply (26 August, 2008)
J W Wilson, R M du Bois, T E King
Strategies to screen for adrenal suppression in children with asthma: there is no consensus among UK centres (26 August, 2008)
M Brodlie, M C McKean
Predicting risk of asthma in wheezing infants (26 August, 2008)
A Raza, R J Kurukulaaratchy, S H Arshad
Authors’ reply (26 August, 2008)
C S Devulapalli, K C L Carlsen, G Håland, M C Munthe-Kaas, M Pettersen, P Mowinckel, K-H Carlsen
Serum free DNA and COX-2 mRNA expression in peripheral blood for lung cancer detection (26 August, 2008)
P Ulivi, L Mercatali, W Zoli, D Dell’Amore, V Poletti, G L Casoni, E Scarpi, E Flamini, D Amadori, R Silvestrini

Correction

CORRECTIONS (26 August, 2008) Free
CORRECTIONS (26 August, 2008) Free

Images in Thorax

Intercostal ancient schwannoma mimicking an apical lung tumour (26 August, 2008)
F Petteruti, G De Luca, A Lerro, A Luciano, I Cozzolino, P Pepino

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Table of contents

September 2008 - Volume 63 - 9

Airwaves

Editorials

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Lung alert

Asthma

Paediatrics

Interstitial lung disease

Pulmonary puzzle

Sleep-disordered breathing

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis

Respiratory infection

Epidemiology

Review

Case Report

Letters

Correction

Images in Thorax

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Table of contents

September 2008 - Volume 63 - 9

Airwaves

Editorials

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Lung alert

Asthma

Paediatrics

Interstitial lung disease

Pulmonary puzzle

Sleep-disordered breathing

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis

Respiratory infection

Epidemiology

Review

Case Report

Letters

Correction

Images in Thorax

Issue Information