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Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (8 March, 2014) Free

Editorials

Time for a preventative strategy for TB in the UK: further evidence for new entrant screening in primary care (2 January, 2014)
Onn Min Kon
Taking airway disease seriously (7 January, 2014)
Pierre Ernst
Year in review 2013: paediatric and adult clinical studies (8 March, 2014)
Andy Bush, Ian Pavord

Asthma

Original article: Once-daily fluticasone furoate (FF)/vilanterol reduces risk of severe exacerbations in asthma versus FF alone (19 November, 2013)
Eric D Bateman, Paul M O'Byrne, William W Busse, Jan Lötvall, Eugene R Bleecker, Leslie Andersen, Loretta Jacques, Lucy Frith, Jessica Lim, Ashley Woodcock

Cystic fibrosis

Original article: Is chest CT useful in newborn screened infants with cystic fibrosis at 1 year of age? (16 October, 2013)
Lena P Thia, Alistair Calder, Janet Stocks, Andrew Bush, Catherine M Owens, Colin Wallis, Carolyn Young, Yvonne Sullivan, Angie Wade, Angus McEwan, Alan S Brody, on behalf of the London Cystic Fibrosis Collaboration (LCFC)

Respiratory research

Original article: Dispensation of long-acting β agonists with or without inhaled corticosteroids, and risk of asthma-related hospitalisation: a population-based study (26 November, 2013) Free
Mohsen Sadatsafavi, Larry D Lynd, Carlo A Marra, J Mark FitzGerald
Original article: Peptide-induced immune regulation by a promiscuous and immunodominant CD4T-cell epitope of Timothy grass pollen: a role of Cbl-b and Itch in regulation (20 November, 2013)
Stephen J Till, Eleanor J Raynsford, Catherine J Reynolds, Kathryn J Quigley, Agnieszka Grzybowska-Kowalczyk, Lavina R Saggar, Andrea Goldstone, Bernard Maillere, William W Kwok, Daniel M Altmann, Stephen R Durham, Rosemary J Boyton

Respiratory physiology

Original article: Moderate concentrations of supplemental oxygen worsen hypercapnia in obesity hypoventilation syndrome: a randomised crossover study (19 November, 2013)
Carly Ann Hollier, Alison Rosemary Harmer, Lyndal Jane Maxwell, Collette Menadue, Grant Neville Willson, Gunnar Unger, Daniel Flunt, Deborah Ann Black, Amanda Jane Piper

Tuberculosis

Original article: The effectiveness of primary care based risk stratification for targeted latent tuberculosis infection screening in recent immigrants to the UK: a retrospective cohort study (19 November, 2013)
Rakesh K Panchal, Ivan Browne, Philip Monk, Gerrit Woltmann, Pranabashis Haldar
Original article: Cigarette smoke impairs cytokine responses and BCG containment in alveolar macrophages (28 November, 2013)
Richard N van Zyl-Smit, Anke Binder, Richard Meldau, Patricia L Semple, Alicia Evans, Peter Smith, Eric D Bateman, Keertan Dheda

Sleep disordered breathing

Original article: Risk factors for sleep-disordered breathing in pregnancy (21 November, 2013)
Grace W Pien, Allan I Pack, Nicholas Jackson, Greg Maislin, George A Macones, Richard J Schwab

Review

Review of the British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2013, 4–6 December, London, UK (8 March, 2014)
James D Chalmers, Neil J Greening, Ricardo J José, Samuel M Janes, on behalf of the BTS science and research committee

Research letter

Prenatal origins of bronchiolitis: protective effect of optimised asthma management during pregnancy (24 September, 2013)
Joerg Mattes, Vanessa E Murphy, Heather Powell, Peter G Gibson

PostScript

Correspondence:
Authors’ response to Walker et al.
(14 October, 2013)
D P Tashkin, N Metzdorf, C Hallmann, I Leimer, T Lee, M Decramer
Correspondence:
Letter in response to Tashkin et al: limited generalisability of uplift findings to clinical practice
(8 November, 2013)
Steven Walker, James Fingleton, Mark Weatherall, Richard Beasley
Correspondence:
SKUP³ trial: comment
(21 October, 2013)
John Stradling, Malcolm Kohler
Correspondence:
Authors’ response to letter to the editor concerning our SKUP³ trial
(30 October, 2013)
Nanna Browaldh, Danielle Friberg
Correspondence: British Thoracic Society guideline on pulmonary rehabilitation in adults: does objectivity have a sliding scale? (9 January, 2014)
Alison K McConnell, Rik Gosselink
Correspondence: The British Thoracic Society guideline on pulmonary rehabilitation in adults: your opinion is noted (15 January, 2014)
Charlotte E Bolton, John D Blakey, Mike D Morgan, on behalf of the BTS Pulmonary Rehabilitation Guideline Development Group for the Standards of Care Committee for the BTS

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Audit, research and guideline update: Predicted relative prevalence estimates for obstructive sleep apnoea and the associated healthcare provision across the UK (23 September, 2013)
Joerg Steier, Alistair Martin, Judy Harris, Ian Jarrold, Darien Pugh, Adrian Williams

Opinion

Opinion: The active identification and management of chronic refractory breathlessness is a human right (8 November, 2013)
David C Currow, Amy P Abernethy, Danielle N Ko

Pulmonary puzzles

Pulmonary puzzles: Pleural nodules in a patient with a colonic tumour (24 December, 2013)
Edson Marchiori, Rosana Souza Rodrigues, Mario Celso Martins Reis, Gláucia Zanetti, Miriam Menna Barreto

Case based discussions

Case based discussions: A young girl with apparent treatment-resistant asthma treated at Bambino Gesù children's hospital (24 December, 2013)
Francesca Petreschi, Nicola Ullmann, Sergio Bottero, Paolo Tomà, Alessandro Inserra, Paola Francalanci, Anna Maria Zicari, Renato Cutrera

Images in thorax

Images in thorax: Congenital thoracic malformation (8 June, 2013)
Charles Sharp, James Jackson, George Hands

Journal club summaries

Journal club summaries: What's hot that the other lot got (8 March, 2014)
Candy Lee

Miscellanea

Journal club: Telehealth for chronic disease management (11 July, 2013)
Aarash Saleh
Journal club: Is ERCC1 a reliable prognostic protein biomarker in non-small-cell lung cancer? (10 July, 2013)
Hannah J Durrington
Journal club: Nodal upstaging after thoracoscopic versus open lobectomy (10 July, 2013)
Ulrik Sartipy
Journal club: Narcolepsy risk after A/H1N1 2009 influenza vaccination (29 July, 2013)
Simon B Drysdale

Correction

Correction (8 March, 2014) Free

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April 2014 - Volume 69 - 4

Airwaves

Editorials

Asthma

Cystic fibrosis

Respiratory research

Respiratory physiology

Tuberculosis

Sleep disordered breathing

Review

Research letter

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Opinion

Pulmonary puzzles

Case based discussions

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Miscellanea

Correction

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Table of contents

April 2014 - Volume 69 - 4

Airwaves

Editorials

Asthma

Cystic fibrosis

Respiratory research

Respiratory physiology

Tuberculosis

Sleep disordered breathing

Review

Research letter

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Opinion

Pulmonary puzzles

Case based discussions

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Miscellanea

Correction

Issue Information