Thorax: 69 (11)

Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (13 October, 2014) Free
Andrew Bush, Ian Pavord

Editorials

Emphysema: time to say farewell to therapeutic nihilism (1 July, 2014)
Zaid Zoumot, Simon Jordan, Nicholas S Hopkinson
The child is father of the man: the importance of early life influences on lung development (22 July, 2014)
A John Henderson
Antioxidants and respiratory disease: the uric acid paradox (13 August, 2014)
Seif O Shaheen

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Original article: Lung volume reduction coil treatment for patients with severe emphysema: a European multicentre trial (2 June, 2014)
Gaëtan Deslee, Karin Klooster, Martin Hetzel, Franz Stanzel, Romain Kessler, Charles-Hugo Marquette, Christian Witt, Stefan Blaas, Wolfgang Gesierich, Felix J F Herth, Juergen Hetzel, Eva M van Rikxoort, Dirk-Jan Slebos
Original article: Comparison of spatially matched airways reveals thinner airway walls in COPD. The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) COPD Study and the Subpopulations and Intermediate Outcomes in COPD Study (SPIROMICS) (13 June, 2014)
Benjamin M Smith, Eric A Hoffman, Dan Rabinowitz, Eugene Bleecker, Stephanie Christenson, David Couper, Kathleen M Donohue, Meilan K Han, Nadia N Hansel, Richard E Kanner, Eric Kleerup, Stephen Rennard, R Graham Barr
Original article:
Genetic regulation of gene expression in the lung identifies CST3 and CD22 as potential causal genes for airflow obstruction
(2 September, 2014)
Maxime Lamontagne, Wim Timens, Ke Hao, Yohan Bossé, Michel Laviolette, Katrina Steiling, Joshua D Campbell, Christian Couture, Massimo Conti, Karen Sherwood, James C Hogg, Corry-Anke Brandsma, Maarten van den Berge, Andrew Sandford, Stephen Lam, Marc E Lenburg, Avrum Spira, Peter D Paré, David Nickle, Don D Sin, Dirkje S Postma

Environmental exposure

Original article: Cross-sectional associations between air pollution and chronic bronchitis: an ESCAPE meta-analysis across five cohorts (11 August, 2014)
Yutong Cai, Tamara Schikowski, Martin Adam, Anna Buschka, Anne-Elie Carsin, Benedicte Jacquemin, Alessandro Marcon, Margaux Sanchez, Andrea Vierkötter, Zaina Al-Kanaani, Rob Beelen, Matthias Birk, Bert Brunekreef, Marta Cirach, Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, Christophe Declercq, Kees de Hoogh, Audrey de Nazelle, Regina E Ducret-Stich, Virginia Valeria Ferretti, Bertil Forsberg, Margaret W Gerbase, Rebecca Hardy, Joachim Heinrich, Gerard Hoek, Debbie Jarvis, Dirk Keidel, Diana Kuh, Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen, Martina S Ragettli, Andrea Ranzi, Thierry Rochat, Christian Schindler, Dorothea Sugiri, Sofia Temam, Ming-Yi Tsai, Raphaëlle Varraso, Francine Kauffmann, Ursula Krämer, Jordi Sunyer, Nino Künzli, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Anna L Hansell

Paediatric lung disease

Original article: A longitudinal study of lung function from 1 month to 18 years of age (2 June, 2014)
Steve Turner, Shona Fielding, Dave Mullane, Des W Cox, Jack Goldblatt, Lou Landau, Peter le Souef

Respiratory epidemiology

Original article: Serum uric acid and the risk of respiratory disease: a population-based cohort study (5 June, 2014)
Laura J Horsfall, Irwin Nazareth, Irene Petersen
Original article: Coarse particulate matter associated with increased risk of emergency hospital admissions for pneumonia in Hong Kong (27 August, 2014)
Hong Qiu, Lin Wei Tian, Vivian C Pun, Kin-fai Ho, Tze Wai Wong, Ignatius T S Yu

Respiratory infection

Original article: Myeloid-related protein-8/14 facilitates bacterial growth during pneumococcal pneumonia (1 September, 2014)
Ahmed Achouiti, Thomas Vogl, Henrik Endeman, Brittany L Mortensen, Pierre-Francois Laterre, Xavier Wittebole, Marieke A D van Zoelen, Yaofang Zhang, Jacobien J Hoogerwerf, Sandrine Florquin, Marcus J Schultz, Jan C Grutters, Douwe H Biesma, Johannes Roth, Eric P Skaar, Cornelis van 't Veer, Alex F de Vos, Tom van der Poll

Research letters

Heterogeneity's ruses: the neglected role of between-individual variability in longitudinal studies of COPD exacerbations (18 February, 2014)
Mohsen Sadatsafavi, J Mark FitzGerald
Positional oximetry to screen for pulmonary arteriovenous malformations in HHT (4 April, 2014)
Susan Carpenter, Janina Josepovici, Giuseppe Latino, Felix Ratjen
Orthodeoxia and postural orthostatic tachycardia in patients with pulmonary arteriovenous malformations: a prospective 8-year series (8 April, 2014)
V Santhirapala, B Chamali, H McKernan, H C Tighe, L C Williams, J T Springett, H R Bellenberg, A J Whitaker, C L Shovlin

PostScript

Correspondence: Risk factors for sleep-disordered breathing in pregnancy (24 July, 2014)
Karen Redhead, Peter Eastwood, Christopher Griffin
Correspondence: Is the ‘spatially matched central airways’ relevant to studies of airway dimensions in COPD? (5 September, 2014)
Yasutaka Nakano, Nguyen Van Tho, Harvey O Coxson
Correspondence: Location, location, location: studying anatomically comparable airways is highly relevant to understanding COPD (12 September, 2014)
Benjamin M Smith, Eric A Hoffman, Stephen Rennard, R Graham Barr
Correspondence: Exacerbations in non-COPD patients: truth or myth (26 June, 2014)
Deepak Aggarwal, Alkesh Kumar Khurana
Correspondence: Exacerbations in non-COPD patients: truth or myth—authors’ response (4 July, 2014)
Wan C Tan, Jean Bourbeau, Shawn Aaron, J Mark FitzGerald, Paul Hernandez, Robert Cowie, Kenneth R Chapman, Darcy Marciniuk, Francois Maltais, Sonia Buist, Denis O'Donnell, Don D Sin
Correspondence: Pulmonary vascular volumes and airways obstruction in SCD patients (15 July, 2014)
Anne Greenough, Alan Lunt
Correspondence: Letter to the Editor in reply to ‘Pulmonary vascular volumes and airways obstruction in SCD patients’ (22 July, 2014)
Suzanne Crowley, Rifat A Chaudry, Mark Rosenthal, Andrew Bush

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Audit, research and guideline update: Cochrane corner: is integrated disease management for patients with COPD effective? (9 January, 2014)
Annemarije L Kruis, Nynke Smidt, Willem J J Assendelft, Jacobijn Gussekloo, Melinde R S Boland, Maureen Rutten-van Mölken, Niels H Chavannes
Audit, research and guideline update: Changes to inhaled corticosteroid dose when initiating combination inhaler therapy in long-acting β agonist-naïve patients with asthma: a retrospective database analysis (15 January, 2014)
Jordan R Covvey, Blair F Johnston, Fraser Wood, Anne C Boyter

Case based discussion

Case based discussion: Lesson of the month: extrinsic allergic (bronchiolo)alveolitis and metal working fluids (8 July, 2014)
Paul Cullinan, Eva D'Souza, Rachel Tennant, Chris Barber

Images in thorax

Images in thorax: Intrapulmonary lipomatosis (16 December, 2013)
Chao-Yu Liu, Yu-Chao Yu, Chih-Cheng Hsieh, Yeh-Han Wang, Teh-Ying Chou

Journal club summaries

Journal club summaries: What's hot that the other lot got (22 September, 2014)
Benjamin Prudon

Miscellanea

Journal club: Improving antibiotic prescribing in acute respiratory tract infections (5 November, 2013)
Leanne Eddie
Journal club: SPLUNC1: link between acidity and dehydration of the airway surface liquid in CF (1 November, 2013)
James P Garnett

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November 2014 - Volume 69 - 11

Airwaves

Editorials

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Environmental exposure

Paediatric lung disease

Respiratory epidemiology

Respiratory infection

Research letters

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Case based discussion

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Miscellanea

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Table of contents

November 2014 - Volume 69 - 11

Airwaves

Editorials

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Environmental exposure

Paediatric lung disease

Respiratory epidemiology

Respiratory infection

Research letters

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Case based discussion

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Miscellanea

Issue Information