Thorax: 65 (3)

Airwaves

Airwaves (24 March, 2010) Free
Wisia Wedzicha

Editorials

High frequency chest wall oscillation in cystic fibrosis (24 March, 2010)
Judy M Bradley
Novel pulmonary biomarkers in the diagnosis of VAP (24 March, 2010)
Paul Johnston, Danny F McAuley, Cecilia M O'Kane
Is vitamin D deficiency important in the natural history of COPD? (24 March, 2010)
J K Quint, J A Wedzicha
ECMO in adults for severe respiratory failure finally comes of age: just in time? (24 March, 2010)
S J Finney, J J Cordingley, M J D Griffiths, T W Evans

Cystic fibrosis

Short-term comparative study of high frequency chest wall oscillation and European airway clearance techniques in patients with cystic fibrosis (23 August, 2009)
Leyla P Osman, Michael Roughton, Margaret E Hodson, Jennifer A Pryor

Respiratory infection

Diagnostic importance of pulmonary interleukin-1β and interleukin-8 in ventilator-associated pneumonia (12 October, 2009)
Andrew Conway Morris, Kallirroi Kefala, Thomas S Wilkinson, Olga Lucia Moncayo-Nieto, Kevin Dhaliwal, Lesley Farrell, Timothy S Walsh, Simon J Mackenzie, David G Swann, Peter JD Andrews, Niall Anderson, John RW Govan, Ian F Laurenson, Hamish Reid, Donald J Davidson, Christopher Haslett, Jean-Michel Sallenave, A John Simpson
Pro-atrial natriuretic peptide and pro-vasopressin for predicting short-term and long-term survival in community-acquired pneumonia: results from the German Competence Network CAPNETZ (24 March, 2010)
Stefan Krüger, Santiago Ewig, Jan Kunde, Oliver Hartmann, Norbert Suttorp, Tobias Welte, the CAPNETZ Study Group

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent in COPD and correlates with variants in the vitamin D-binding gene (8 December, 2009)
Wim Janssens, Roger Bouillon, Bart Claes, Claudia Carremans, An Lehouck, Ian Buysschaert, Johan Coolen, Chantal Mathieu, Marc Decramer, Diether Lambrechts
COPD and chronic bronchitis risk of indoor air pollution from solid fuel: a systematic review and meta-analysis (24 March, 2010)
Om P Kurmi, Sean Semple, Padam Simkhada, W Cairns S Smith, Jon G Ayres
Influence of anxiety on health outcomes in COPD (24 March, 2010)
Mark D Eisner, Paul D Blanc, Edward H Yelin, Patricia P Katz, Gabriela Sanchez, Carlos Iribarren, Theodore A Omachi

Cigarette smoking

First trimester maternal tobacco smoking habits and fetal growth (24 March, 2010)
Nanda Prabhu, Norman Smith, Doris Campbell, Leone C Craig, Anthony Seaton, Peter J Helms, Graham Devereux, Stephen W Turner

Lung cancer

Prognostic factors of postrecurrence survival in completely resected stage I non-small cell lung cancer with distant metastasis (24 March, 2010)
Jung-Jyh Hung, Wen-Juei Jeng, Wen-Hu Hsu, Kou-Juey Wu, Teh-Ying Chou, Chih-Cheng Hsieh, Min-Hsiung Huang, Jung-Sen Liu, Yu-Chung Wu

Paediatric lung disease

Relationship of proteinases and proteinase inhibitors with microbial presence in chronic lung disease of prematurity (24 March, 2010)
Philip L Davies, O Brad Spiller, Michael L Beeton, Nicola C Maxwell, Eileen Remold-O'Donnell, Sailesh Kotecha

Asthma

Ammonium persulfate can initiate an asthmatic response in mice (24 March, 2010)
Vanessa De Vooght, María-Jesús Cruz, Steven Haenen, Katlijn Wijnhoven, Xavier Muñoz, Peter HM Hoet, Ferran Morell, Benoit Nemery, Jeroen AJ Vanoirbeek
Influence of atopy and asthma on exhaled nitric oxide in an unselected birth cohort study (24 March, 2010)
Martha Scott, Abid Raza, Wilfried Karmaus, Frances Mitchell, Jane Grundy, Ramesh J Kurukulaaratchy, S Hasan Arshad, Graham Roberts

Airways disease

Comparison of inspiratory and expiratory resistance and reactance in patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (24 March, 2010)
Paolo Paredi, Michael Goldman, Almahdi Alamen, Pilar Ausin, Omar S Usmani, Neil B Pride, Peter J Barnes

Case report

Acute eosinophilic pneumonia associated with 2009 influenza A (H1N1) (24 March, 2010)
Eun Ju Jeon, Kwang Hyun Kim, Kyung Hoon Min

Review

Systematic review of interferon-gamma release assays in tuberculosis: focus on likelihood ratios (24 March, 2010)
Kwok Chiu Chang, Chi Chiu Leung

PostScript

Letters: Role of low-dose theophyllines in exacerbations of COPD (24 March, 2010)
A B Palamarthy
Letters: Author's reply (24 March, 2010)
B G Cosio
Letters: Risk disclosure prior to bronchoscopy (24 March, 2010)
C Echevarria, G A Anwar, S Parker, R M Rutherford
Letters: Authors' reply (24 March, 2010)
S T O'Keeffe, J J Gilmartin
Letters: Upper and lower airway microbiology in cystic fibrosis (24 March, 2010)
T Daniels
Letters: Authors' reply (24 March, 2010)
J G Mainz, B Tümmler

Miscellanea

Higher mortality from non-small cell lung cancer reported in subjects treated with oestrogen and progestin (24 March, 2010)
P A Marsden
Three diagnoses become one: a woman with ground-glass attenuation develops fever (24 March, 2010)
Ewout J Hoorn, Jan A van Laar, Jan G den Hollander, Johan M Kros, Esther Brusse
Iron supplementation may attenuate the effects of hypoxia on pulmonary vasculature (24 March, 2010)
Sarah Dyer
Pulmonary puzzle (24 March, 2010)
Updating prognostic parameters in COPD: the updated BODE index and ADO (24 March, 2010)
Farid Bazari
Routine PET for early lung cancer (24 March, 2010)
Alaisdair G Stewart

Images in Thorax

Subcutaneous emphysema of the chest: could it be pulmonary mucormycosis? (24 March, 2010)
Chiramel George Koshy, Sanjeev Shah, Thomas Mammen

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March 2010 - Volume 65 - 3

Airwaves

Editorials

Cystic fibrosis

Respiratory infection

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Cigarette smoking

Lung cancer

Paediatric lung disease

Asthma

Airways disease

Case report

Review

PostScript

Miscellanea

Images in Thorax

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Table of contents

March 2010 - Volume 65 - 3

Airwaves

Editorials

Cystic fibrosis

Respiratory infection

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Cigarette smoking

Lung cancer

Paediatric lung disease

Asthma

Airways disease

Case report

Review

PostScript

Miscellanea

Images in Thorax

Issue Information