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Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (11 September, 2013) Free

Editorials

Inferring the quality of hospital treatment for COPD by mortality; caution is needed (28 June, 2013) Free
M D L Morgan
Pulmonary rehabilitation; what's in a name? (10 July, 2013) Free
Sally J Singh, Michael C Steiner
The GOLD Rush (12 June, 2013) Free
Joan B Soriano

HOT off the breath

Electronic cigarettes (12 August, 2013) Free
John Britton

Asthma and the environment

Original article: Effects of high altitude and cold air exposure on airway inflammation in patients with asthma (2 July, 2013) Free
Sven F Seys, Marc Daenen, Ellen Dilissen, Ruud Van Thienen, Dominique M A Bullens, Peter Hespel, Lieven J Dupont

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Original article: GOLD classifications and mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the HUNT Study, Norway (23 April, 2013) Free
Linda Leivseth, Ben Michael Brumpton, Tom Ivar Lund Nilsen, Xiao-Mei Mai, Roar Johnsen, Arnulf Langhammer
Original article: The effectiveness of a structured education pulmonary rehabilitation programme for improving the health status of people with moderate and severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary care: the PRINCE cluster randomised trial (4 June, 2013)
Dympna Casey, Kathy Murphy, Declan Devane, Adeline Cooney, Bernard McCarthy, Lorraine Mee, John Newell, Eamon O'Shea, Carl Scarrott, Paddy Gillespie, Collette Kirwan, Andrew W Murphy

Cystic fibrosis

Original article: Blood mRNA biomarkers for detection of treatment response in acute pulmonary exacerbations of cystic fibrosis (19 June, 2013) Free
J A Nick, L A Sanders, B Ickes, N J Briones, S M Caceres, K C Malcolm, S J Brayshaw, C S Chacon, C M Barboa, M C Jones, C St Clair, J L Taylor-Cousar, D P Nichols, S D Sagel, M Strand, M T Saavedra

Interstitial lung disease

Original article: Role of tetrahydrobiopterin in pulmonary vascular remodelling associated with pulmonary fibrosis (5 June, 2013) Free
Patricia Almudéver, Javier Milara, Alfredo De Diego, Ana Serrano-Mollar, Antoni Xaubet, Francisco Perez-Vizcaino, Angel Cogolludo, Julio Cortijo

Sleep disordered breathing

Original article: Morbidity and mortality in children with obstructive sleep apnoea: a controlled national study (8 June, 2013) Free
Poul Jennum, Rikke Ibsen, Jakob Kjellberg

Tuberculosis

Original article: Evaluation of screening methods for identification of patients with chronic rheumatological disease requiring tuberculosis chemoprophylaxis prior to commencement of TNF-α antagonist therapy (23 August, 2013) Free
Aran Singanayagam, Kavina Manalan, Saranya Sridhar, Philip L Molyneaux, David W Connell, Peter M George, Anne Kindelerer, Suranjith Seneviratne, Ajit Lalvani, Melissa Wickremasinghe, Onn Min Kon

Research letter

Daily physical activity in subjects with newly diagnosed COPD (20 April, 2013)
Hans Van Remoortel, Miek Hornikx, Heleen Demeyer, Daniel Langer, Chris Burtin, Marc Decramer, Rik Gosselink, Wim Janssens, Thierry Troosters

PostScript

Correspondence: Correspondence on the paper by Krauss–Etschmann S, Bush A, Bellusci S, et al. (12 April, 2013) Free
J Bousquet, J M Anto, J Heinrich, T Keil, D S Postma, J Sunyer
Correspondence: The use of benzodiazepines could be a protective factor for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in ≤60-year-old subjects (4 May, 2013) Free
Jordi Almirall, Mateu Serra-Prat, Francisco Baron, Elisabet Palomera, Ignasi Bolíbar
Correspondence: Authors’ response to Almirall et al (9 May, 2013) Free
Robert D Sanders
Correspondence: Should we give long-term macrolide therapy for COPD? (25 May, 2013) Free
Philip A J Crosbie, Mark Woodhead
Correspondence: Response to: Should we give long-term macrolide therapy for COPD? (13 July, 2013) Free
Richard K Albert

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Audit, research and guideline update: Use of mortality within 30 days of a COPD hospitalisation as a measure of COPD care in UK hospitals (20 June, 2013) Free
P P Walker, E Thompson, H Crone, G Flatt, K Holton, S L Hill, M G Pearson
Audit, research and guideline update: Research in progress: put the orphanage out of business (21 February, 2013) Free
Andrew Bush, Gisela Anthony, Angelo Barbato, Steve Cunningham, Annick Clement, R Epaud, Carlee Gilbert, Lutz Goldbeck, Kai Kronfeld, Andrew G Nicholson, Nicolaus Schwerk, Matthias Griese, on behalf of the ch-ILD collaborators

Basic science for the chest physician

Basic science for the chest physician: Ion channels (5 April, 2013) Free
Peter Bradding, Heike Wulff

Opinion

Opinion: Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743–1794) and the birth of respiratory physiology (30 May, 2013) Free
Marianna Karamanou, George Androutsos

Pulmonary puzzles

Pulmonary puzzles: Clinical presentation (13 February, 2013)
Ching-Wen Huang, Kuang-Tai Kuo, Chih-Ming Lin, Chia-Wen Shih, Kuo-Chin Kao, Ching-Tzu Huang

Images in thorax

Images in thorax: Post-traumatic pulmonary hernia (5 February, 2013) Free
Jean-Stephane David, Candice Tassin, Jean-Michel Maury

Journal club summaries

Journal club summaries: What's hot that the other lot got (11 September, 2013) Free
Candy Lee

Miscellanea

Journal club: Donor smoking reduces recipient survival after lung transplant (1 November, 2012) Free
Robert Derrick
Journal club: Surgery for early stage small cell lung cancer (27 October, 2012) Free
Ulrik Sartipy
Journal club: Pulmonary arterial enlargement and acute exacerbations of COPD (5 March, 2013) Free
Henrietta Creasy

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October 2013 - Volume 68 - 10

Airwaves

Editorials

HOT off the breath

Asthma and the environment

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Cystic fibrosis

Interstitial lung disease

Sleep disordered breathing

Tuberculosis

Research letter

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Basic science for the chest physician

Opinion

Pulmonary puzzles

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Miscellanea

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Table of contents

October 2013 - Volume 68 - 10

Airwaves

Editorials

HOT off the breath

Asthma and the environment

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Cystic fibrosis

Interstitial lung disease

Sleep disordered breathing

Tuberculosis

Research letter

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Basic science for the chest physician

Opinion

Pulmonary puzzles

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Miscellanea

Issue Information