Thorax: 65 (9)

Airwaves

Airwaves (30 August, 2010) Free
Wisia Wedzicha

Editorials

Thorax 2010: celebrating the success of an international respiratory journal
(30 August, 2010) Free
Jadwiga A Wedzicha, Sebastian L Johnston
Diagnosing lung cancer earlier in the UK (30 August, 2010)
Richard B Hubbard, David R Baldwin
Asthma: improved understanding and insights into the challenges of achieving asthma control (30 August, 2010)
G Ian Town, J Mark Fitzgerald
The genetics of obstructive lung disease: big is beautiful (30 August, 2010)
Ian P Hall, David A Lomas
Waking up to sleep-disordered breathing (30 August, 2010)
J A Fleetham
Travelling in time with COPD (30 August, 2010)
J R Hurst, P M A Calverley
Non-invasive positive pressure ventilation in patients with stable hypercapnic COPD: light at the end of the tunnel? (30 August, 2010)
Bernd Schönhofer
Lung Alerts: promoting education and encouraging new authors (30 August, 2010)
Angshu Bhowmik, Jenni Quint

Respiratory infection

Impact of the seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination (PCV7) programme on childhood hospital admissions for bacterial pneumonia and empyema in England: national time-trends study, 1997–2008 (30 August, 2010)
Elizabeth Koshy, Joanna Murray, Alex Bottle, Mike Sharland, Sonia Saxena

Asthma

Quantitative analysis of high-resolution computed tomography scans in severe asthma subphenotypes (30 August, 2010)
Sumit Gupta, Salman Siddiqui, Pranab Haldar, James J Entwisle, Dean Mawby, Andrew J Wardlaw, Peter Bradding, Ian D Pavord, Ruth H Green, Christopher E Brightling
Increased levels of osteopontin in sputum supernatant in severe refractory asthma (30 August, 2010)
Vasiliki Delimpoura, Petros Bakakos, Eleni Tseliou, Vasiliki Bessa, Georgios Hillas, Davina C M Simoes, Spyros Papiris, Stelios Loukides
Refractory asthma in the UK: cross-sectional findings from a UK multicentre registry (30 August, 2010)
Liam G Heaney, Chris E Brightling, Andrew Menzies-Gow, Michael Stevenson, Rob M Niven, on behalf of the British Thoracic Society Difficult Asthma Network
Bronchial reactivity indices are determinants of health-related quality of life in patients with stable asthma (30 August, 2010)
Carolina Cisneros, Francisco García-Río, Delia Romera, Carlos Villasante, Rosa Girón, Julio Ancochea
Prediction of asthma in symptomatic preschool children using exhaled nitric oxide, Rint and specific IgE (30 August, 2010)
Daan Caudri, Alet H Wijga, Maarten O Hoekstra, Marjan Kerkhof, Gerard H Koppelman, Bert Brunekreef, Henriette A Smit, Johan C de Jongste

Lung transplantation

Breathing pattern and chest wall volumes during exercise in patients with cystic fibrosis, pulmonary fibrosis and COPD before and after lung transplantation (30 August, 2010)
H Wilkens, B Weingard, A Lo Mauro, E Schena, A Pedotti, G W Sybrecht, A Aliverti

Thoracic surgery

Postoperative pulmonary complications following thoracic surgery: are there any modifiable risk factors? (30 August, 2010)
P Agostini, H Cieslik, S Rathinam, E Bishay, M S Kalkat, P B Rajesh, R S Steyn, S Singh, B Naidu

Paediatrics

Validation of a parent-proxy quality of life questionnaire for paediatric chronic cough (PC-QOL) (30 August, 2010)
Peter A Newcombe, Jeanie K Sheffield, Elizabeth F Juniper, Helen L Petsky, Carol Willis, Anne B Chang
The effects of sleeping position on ventilatory responses to carbon dioxide in premature infants (30 August, 2010)
Adam P R Smith, Tolulope Saiki, Simon Hannam, Gerrard F Rafferty, Anne Greenough

Sleep-disordered breathing

Predictors of long-term compliance with continuous positive airway pressure (30 August, 2010)
Malcolm Kohler, Debbie Smith, Victoria Tippett, John R Stradling

Case report

Diagnosis of pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis by CT-guided core biopsy of lung: a report of three cases (30 August, 2010)
Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, Shea M Eckardt, Ernest M Scalzetti

Review

Treatment of COPD: the sooner the better? (30 August, 2010)
Marc Decramer, Christopher B Cooper

PostScript

Letter: Bronchoalveolar lavage immunodiagnosis for tuberculosis suspects in Europe and Africa (30 August, 2010)
Christoph Lange, Aik Bossink, Ralf Eberhardt, Delia Goletti, Claudia Jafari, Irene Latorre, Detlef Kirsten, Monica Losi, Giovanni B Migliori, Giovanni Sotgiu
Letter: Authors' response (30 August, 2010)
Richard N van Zyl-Smit, Richard Meldau, Keertan Dheda
Letter: Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction and exercise testing in an international rugby union team (30 August, 2010)
E C Falvey, C McCarthy, T M O'Connor, F Shanahan, M G Molloy, B J Plant
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Miscellanea

A 21-year-old male with right chest pain, dyspnoea on exertion and bloody pleural effusion (30 August, 2010)
Xu Zhi, Zhang Qiao, Wang Changzheng, Wu Guoming, Wang Guansong, Yao Wei
Can procalcitonin have a role in reducing antibiotic selective pressure? (30 August, 2010)
S Pomfret
Maternal vitamin A supplementation improves lung function in offspring (30 August, 2010)
C Dardis
Immunoglobulin G2 subclass deficiency and H1N1 (30 August, 2010)
B Kathiresan

Images in Thorax

Unexpected identification of bilateral masses in an asymptomatic heavy smoker (29 July, 2010)
Elisa Garlassi, Giulio Rossi, Andrea Bedini, Luca Richeldi

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September 2010 - Volume 65 - 9

Airwaves

Editorials

Respiratory infection

Asthma

Lung transplantation

Thoracic surgery

Paediatrics

Sleep-disordered breathing

Case report

Review

PostScript

Miscellanea

Images in Thorax

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Table of contents

September 2010 - Volume 65 - 9

Airwaves

Editorials

Respiratory infection

Asthma

Lung transplantation

Thoracic surgery

Paediatrics

Sleep-disordered breathing

Case report

Review

PostScript

Miscellanea

Images in Thorax

Issue Information