Thorax: 68 (4)

Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (7 March, 2013) Free

Editorials

Forced vital capacity as a primary end point in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis treatment trials: making a silk purse from a sow's ear (27 September, 2012)
Athol U Wells
After a long wait, two arrive, one after the other! (7 January, 2013)
Kevin W Southern, Pamela McCormack, Paul S McNamara
Macrolides for yet another chronic airway disease: severe asthma? (24 January, 2013)
Peter G Gibson

Acute lung injury

Original article: Proteolytic cleavage of elafin by 20S proteasome may contribute to inflammation in acute lung injury (14 December, 2012)
Aoife Kerrin, Sinéad Weldon, Allen Hung-Kang Chung, Thelma Craig, A John Simpson, Cecilia M O'Kane, Danny Francis McAuley, Clifford C Taggart

Asthma

Original article: Azithromycin for prevention of exacerbations in severe asthma (AZISAST): a multicentre randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial (3 January, 2013) Free
Guy G Brusselle, Christine VanderStichele, Paul Jordens, René Deman, Hans Slabbynck, Veerle Ringoet, Geert Verleden, Ingel K Demedts, Katia Verhamme, Anja Delporte, Bénédicte Demeyere, Geert Claeys, Jerina Boelens, Elizaveta Padalko, Johny Verschakelen, Georges Van Maele, Ellen Deschepper, Guy F P Joos

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Original article: Decreased indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase activity and IL-10/IL-17A ratio in patients with COPD (19 December, 2012)
Kittipong Maneechotesuwan, Kanda Kasetsinsombat, Adisak Wongkajornsilp, Peter J Barnes
Original article: Use of nebulised magnesium sulphate as an adjuvant in the treatment of acute exacerbations of COPD in adults: a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial (7 January, 2013)
Llifon Edwards, Philippa Shirtcliffe, Kirsten Wadsworth, Bridget Healy, Sarah Jefferies, Mark Weatherall, Richard Beasley, on behalf of the Magnesium COPD Study Team

Cystic fibrosis

Original article: Safety, efficacy and convenience of colistimethate sodium dry powder for inhalation (Colobreathe DPI) in patients with cystic fibrosis: a randomised study (7 November, 2012)
Antje Schuster, Cynthia Haliburn, Gerd Döring, Martin Harris Goldman, for the Freedom Study Group

Epidemiology

Original article: Do fast foods cause asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema? Global findings from the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) Phase Three (14 January, 2013)
Philippa Ellwood, M Innes Asher, Luis García-Marcos, Hywel Williams, Ulrich Keil, Colin Robertson, Gabriele Nagel, the ISAAC Phase III Study Group
Original article: Statins and the risk of interstitial lung disease: a cohort study (7 January, 2013)
Nathalie Saad, Philippe Camus, Samy Suissa, Pierre Ernst

Occupational lung disease

Original article: Asthma and occupation in the 1958 birth cohort (21 January, 2013)
Rebecca Elisabeth Ghosh, Paul Cullinan, David Fishwick, Jennifer Hoyle, Chris J Warburton, David P Strachan, Barbara K Butland, Debbie Jarvis

Paediatrics

Original article: The relationship between maternal adiposity and infant weight gain, and childhood wheeze and atopy (3 January, 2013)
Katharine C Pike, Hazel M Inskip, Sian M Robinson, Cyrus Cooper, Keith M Godfrey, Graham Roberts, Jane S A Lucas, the Southampton Women's Survey Study Group

Review

Of flies, mice and men: a systematic approach to understanding the early life origins of chronic lung disease (10 July, 2012)
Susanne Krauss-Etschmann, Andrew Bush, Saverio Bellusci, Guy G Brusselle, Sven Erik K Dahlén, Stefan Dehmel, Oliver Eickelberg, Greg Gibson, Machteld N Hylkema, Petra Knaus, Melanie Königshoff, Clare M Lloyd, Paolo Macciarini, Arnaud Mailleux, Benjamin J Marsland, Dirkje S Postma, Graham Roberts, Christos Samakovlis, Janet Stocks, Joke Vandesompele, Matthias Wjst, John Holloway

Research letter

The role of facemask spirometry in motor neuron disease (27 July, 2012)
Sandip Kamakhya Banerjee, Michael Davies, Linda Sharples, Ian Smith

PostScript

Correspondence: Azithromycin and severe asthma (7 February, 2013)
David L Hahn
Correspondence: Letter to the editors (8 January, 2013)
Jørgen Vestbo, Roberto Rodriguez-Roisin
Correspondence: Response to Vestbo and Rodrigues-Roisin (18 January, 2013)
Ian D Pavord, Andy Bush
Correspondence: The place of comorbidities in ‘COPD control panel’ (11 January, 2013)
Ivan Ivanovich Vishnivetsky, Oleksandr Dyadyk, Yuriy Mostovoy
Correspondence: Authors response. The chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) control panel: towards personalised medicine in COPD (7 January, 2013)
Alvar Agusti, William MacNee

Chest clinic

Audit, Research and Guideline update

Audit, research and guideline update: NICE guideline: management of venous thromboembolic diseases and role of thrombophilia testing (12 December, 2012)
Luke S Howard, Rodney J Hughes

Pulmonary puzzle

Pulmonary puzzle: A rapidly growing lung mass with air crescent formation (13 April, 2012)
Harpreet K Lota, Michael Dusmet, Katrine Steele, Athol U Wells, Andrew G Nicholson, David M Hansell, Elisabetta A Renzoni

Opinion

Opinion: Middle airway obstruction—it may be happening under our noses (19 July, 2012)
Philip G Bardin, Sebastian L Johnston, Garun Hamilton

Images in thorax

Images in Thorax: “Tree in bud” attributable to organising pneumonia (27 July, 2012)
E M T Bots, M A den Bakker, M S Wijsenbeek, L M van den Toorn, B van den Blink

Miscellaneous

Journal club: GATA2, a novel therapeutic target for RAS-oncogene-addicted NSCLC? (17 July, 2012)
Richard Lee
Journal club: ERK3 in lung cancer cell invasion (16 July, 2012)
Arthee Yogendran

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Table of contents

April 2013 - Volume 68 - 4

Airwaves

Editorials

Acute lung injury

Asthma

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Cystic fibrosis

Epidemiology

Occupational lung disease

Paediatrics

Review

Research letter

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, Research and Guideline update

Pulmonary puzzle

Opinion

Images in thorax

Miscellaneous

Issue Information

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Table of contents

April 2013 - Volume 68 - 4

Airwaves

Editorials

Acute lung injury

Asthma

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Cystic fibrosis

Epidemiology

Occupational lung disease

Paediatrics

Review

Research letter

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, Research and Guideline update

Pulmonary puzzle

Opinion

Images in thorax

Miscellaneous

Issue Information