Thorax: 67 (3)

Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (17 February, 2012) Free
Andrew Bush, Ian Pavord

Editorials

Asthma and pregnancy: do they give clues to abnormal antiviral activity? (8 October, 2011)
William W Busse, James E Gern
Inflammometry: the current state of play (17 February, 2012)
Ian D Pavord, Peter G Gibson

Original articles

Asthma

Original article: Use of sputum eosinophil counts to guide management in children with severe asthma (8 August, 2011)
Louise Fleming, Nicola Wilson, Nicolas Regamey, Andrew Bush
Original article: A systematic review and meta-analysis: tailoring asthma treatment on eosinophilic markers (exhaled nitric oxide or sputum eosinophils) (11 October, 2010)
H L Petsky, C J Cates, T J Lasserson, A M Li, C Turner, J A Kynaston, A B Chang
Original article: Impaired type I and III interferon response to rhinovirus infection during pregnancy and asthma (13 September, 2011) Free
Rebecca Louise Forbes, Peter G Gibson, Vanessa E Murphy, Peter A B Wark

Asthma and the environment

Original article: Nocturnal temperature controlled laminar airflow for treating atopic asthma: a randomised controlled trial (30 November, 2011)
Robert J Boyle, Christophe Pedroletti, Magnus Wickman, Leif Bjermer, Erkka Valovirta, Ronald Dahl, Andrea Von Berg, Olof Zetterström, John O Warner, for the 4A Study Group

Cystic fibrosis

Original article: NMR spectroscopy metabolomic profiling of exhaled breath condensate in patients with stable and unstable cystic fibrosis (21 November, 2011)
Paolo Montuschi, Debora Paris, Dominique Melck, Vincenzina Lucidi, Giovanni Ciabattoni, Valeria Raia, Cecilia Calabrese, Andrew Bush, Peter J Barnes, Andrea Motta

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Original article: Aclidinium inhibits human lung fibroblast to myofibroblast transition (28 September, 2011)
Javier Milara, Adela Serrano, Teresa Peiró, Amadeu Gavaldà, Montserrat Miralpeix, Esteban Jesús Morcillo, Julio Cortijo
Original article: Time course and pattern of COPD exacerbation onset (18 October, 2011)
Shawn D Aaron, Gavin C Donaldson, George A Whitmore, John R Hurst, Tim Ramsay, Jadwiga A Wedzicha

Acute lung injury

Original article: Selective inhibition of intra-alveolar p55 TNF receptor attenuates ventilator-induced lung injury (9 December, 2011)
Szabolcs Bertok, Michael R Wilson, Peter J Morley, Ruud de Wildt, Andrew Bayliffe, Masao Takata

Paediatrics

Original article: Coarse and fine particles but not ultrafine particles in urban air trigger hospital admission for asthma in children (9 December, 2011)
Amne Iskandar, Zorana Jovanovic Andersen, Klaus Bønnelykke, Thomas Ellermann, Klaus Kaae Andersen, Hans Bisgaard

Review

Review of the British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2011, 7–9 December, London, UK (17 February, 2012)
Hannah Kelly Bayes, Alistair Colin Church, Andrew J Fisher

PostScript

Correspondence: GOLD COPD classification and prognostic pessimism regarding ICU admission (17 April, 2011)
Andrea Collins, Andrew Walden, Robert Parker
Correspondence: Authors' response: ‘What's nice about the new NICE guideline?’ (17 April, 2011)
John O'Reilly, Michael Rudolf
Correspondence: Importance of past occupational exposures in the rising incidence of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in the UK (7 September, 2011)
C M Barber, D Fishwick
Correspondence: Authors' response (7 September, 2011)
Vidya Navaratnam, Kate M Fleming, Joe West, C J P Smith, R G Jenkins, Andrew W Fogarty, Richard Hubbard

Chest clinic

Obituary

Obituary: David Jack (1924–2011) who revolutionised the treatment of asthma (16 January, 2012)
Peter J Barnes, Alastair Breckenridge

Opinion

Opinion: Non-adherence in difficult asthma: time to take it seriously (18 June, 2011)
Liam G Heaney, Rob Horne

Basic Science for the Chest Physician

Basic science for the chest physician: Genome-wide association studies in lung disease (19 August, 2011)
María Soler Artigas, Louise V Wain, Martin D Tobin

Pulmonary puzzle

Pulmonary puzzle: A 67-year-old woman with fever, multiple lung opacities, visual impairment and acute respiratory failure (27 October, 2011)
Leticia Barbosa Kawano-Dourado, Alexandre de Melo Kawassaki, Vera Luiza Capelozzi, Marcos Soares Tavares, Carmen Sílvia Valente Barbas

Audit update

Audit update: Evidence for a national problem: continued rise in tuberculosis case numbers in urban areas outside London (10 January, 2012)
Michelle E Kruijshaar, Ibrahim Abubakar, Martin Dedicoat, Graham H Bothamley, Helen Maguire, Jonathan Moore, Jonathan Crofts, Marc Lipman

Guidelines update

Guidelines update: Standards of care for occupational asthma: an update (9 December, 2011)
David Fishwick, Christopher Michael Barber, Lisa M Bradshaw, Jon G Ayres, Richard Barraclough, Sherwood Burge, Jonathan M Corne, Paul Cullinan, Timothy Laszlo Frank, David Hendrick, Jennifer Hoyle, Andrew D Curran, Robert Niven, Tony Pickering, Peter Reid, Alastair Robertson, Chris Stenton, Christopher J Warburton, Paul J Nicholson

Miscellanea

Journal club: Statins may decrease all cause mortality in pneumonia (23 August, 2011)
Hugo Gemal
Journal club: A possible mechanism of drug tolerance in mycobacteria (31 July, 2011)
S V Ranson

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March 2012 - Volume 67 - 3

Airwaves

Editorials

Original articles

Asthma

Asthma and the environment

Cystic fibrosis

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Acute lung injury

Paediatrics

Review

PostScript

Chest clinic

Obituary

Opinion

Basic Science for the Chest Physician

Pulmonary puzzle

Audit update

Guidelines update

Miscellanea

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Table of contents

March 2012 - Volume 67 - 3

Airwaves

Editorials

Original articles

Asthma

Asthma and the environment

Cystic fibrosis

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Acute lung injury

Paediatrics

Review

PostScript

Chest clinic

Obituary

Opinion

Basic Science for the Chest Physician

Pulmonary puzzle

Audit update

Guidelines update

Miscellanea

Issue Information