Table of contents

Original articles

Cystic fibrosis

• Original article: Novel strategies in newborn screening for cystic fibrosis: a prospective controlled study (23 January, 2012)

  Annette M M Vernooij-van Langen, J Gerard Loeber, Bert Elvers, Ralf H Triepels, Johan J P Gille, Catharina P B Van der Ploeg, Sandra Reijntjens, Edward Dompeling, Jeannette E Dankert-Roelse

Lung cancer

• Original article: CT screening for lung cancer brings forward early disease. The randomised Danish Lung Cancer Screening Trial: status after five annual screening rounds with low-dose CT (27 January, 2012)

  Zaigham Saghir, Asger Dirksen, Haseem Ashraf, Karen Skjøldstrup Bach, John Brodersen, Paul Frost Clementsen, Martin Døssing, Hanne Hansen, Klaus Fuglsang Kofoed, Klaus Richter Larsen, Jann Mortensen, Jakob Fraes Rasmussen, Niels Seersholm, Birgit Guldhammer Skov, Hanne Thorsen, Philip Tønnesen, Jesper Holst Pedersen

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Original article: Effect of fissure integrity on lung volume reduction using a polymer sealant* in advanced emphysema (28 February, 2012) Free

  Helgo Magnussen, Mordechai R Kramer, Anne-Marie Kirsten, Charles Marquette, Arschang Valipour, Franz Stanzel, Reiner Bonnet, Juergen Behr, Oren Fruchter, Yael Refaely, Ralf Eberhardt, Felix J F Herth
• Original article: Association between obstructive lung disease and markers of HIV infection in a high-risk cohort (16 November, 2011)

  M Bradley Drummond, Gregory D Kirk, Jacquie Astemborski, Mariah M Marshall, Shruti H Mehta, John F McDyer, Robert H Brown, Robert A Wise, Christian A Merlo

Environmental exposure

• Original article: Unflued gas heaters and respiratory symptoms in older people with asthma (16 January, 2012)

  P J Franklin, J Loveday, A Cook

Asthma

• Original article: Antibacterial antibody responses associated with the development of asthma in house dust mite-sensitised and non-sensitised children (21 November, 2011)

  Belinda J Hales, Lee Ying Chai, Claire E Elliot, Leigh J Pearce, Guicheng Zhang, Tatjana K Heinrich, Wendy-Anne Smith, Merci M Kusel, Patrick G Holt, Peter D Sly, Wayne R Thomas

Orphan lung disease

• Original article: Low serum iron levels are associated with elevated plasma levels of coagulation factor VIII and pulmonary emboli/deep venous thromboses in replicate cohorts of patients with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (14 December, 2011)

  John A Livesey, Richard A Manning, John H Meek, James E Jackson, Elena Kulinskaya, Michael A Laffan, Claire L Shovlin

Pulmonary vasculature

• Original article: Lung irradiation induces pulmonary vascular remodelling resembling pulmonary arterial hypertension (26 December, 2011)

  G Ghobadi, B Bartelds, S J van der Veen, M G Dickinson, S Brandenburg, R M F Berger, J A Langendijk, R P Coppes, P van Luijk