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Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (12 April, 2014) Free
Andrew Bush, Ian Pavord

Editorials

HRCT-defined emphysema is not COPD to be treated with inhalers (6 January, 2014)
Paul Enright
Measuring diaphragm shortening using ultrasonography to predict extubation success (12 April, 2014)
Gerard J Criner

HOT off the breath

Will SUMMIT reach the peak in COPD? (21 February, 2014)
Samy Suissa
Overdiagnosis during lung cancer screening: is it an overemphasised, underappreciated, or tangential issue? (19 March, 2014)
Frank C Detterbeck

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Original article: Comparison of spirometric thresholds in diagnosing smoking-related airflow obstruction (23 March, 2013)
Surya P Bhatt, Jessica C Sieren, Mark T Dransfield, George R Washko, John D Newell, Douglas S Stinson, Gideon K D Zamba, Eric A Hoffman, for the COPDGene Investigators
Original article: Cluster analysis in the COPDGene study identifies subtypes of smokers with distinct patterns of airway disease and emphysema (21 February, 2014)
Peter J Castaldi, Jennifer Dy, James Ross, Yale Chang, George R Washko, Douglas Curran-Everett, Andre Williams, David A Lynch, Barry J Make, James D Crapo, Russ P Bowler, Elizabeth A Regan, John E Hokanson, Greg L Kinney, Meilan K Han, Xavier Soler, Joseph W Ramsdell, R Graham Barr, Marilyn Foreman, Edwin van Beek, Richard Casaburi, Gerald J Criner, Sharon M Lutz, Steven I Rennard, Stephanie Santorico, Frank C Sciurba, Dawn L DeMeo, Craig P Hersh, Edwin K Silverman, Michael H Cho
Original article: Measuring respiratory symptoms in clinical trials of COPD: reliability and validity of a daily diary (4 March, 2014)
N K Leidy, C C Sexton, P W Jones, S M Notte, B U Monz, L Nelsen, M Goldman, L T Murray, S Sethi

Critical care

Original article: Diaphragm ultrasound as a predictor of successful extubation from mechanical ventilation (23 December, 2013) Free
Ernest DiNino, Eric J Gartman, Jigme M Sethi, F Dennis McCool

Interstitial lung disease

Original article: Connective tissue disease related interstitial lung diseases and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: provisional core sets of domains and instruments for use in clinical trials (24 December, 2013)
Lesley Ann Saketkoo, Shikha Mittoo, Dörte Huscher, Dinesh Khanna, Paul F Dellaripa, Oliver Distler, Kevin R Flaherty, Sid Frankel, Chester V Oddis, Christopher P Denton, Aryeh Fischer, Otylia M Kowal-Bielecka, Daphne LeSage, Peter A Merkel, Kristine Phillips, David Pittrow, Jeffrey Swigris, Katerina Antoniou, Robert P Baughman, Flavia V Castelino, Romy B Christmann, Lisa Christopher-Stine, Harold R Collard, Vincent Cottin, Sonye Danoff, Kristin B Highland, Laura Hummers, Ami A Shah, Dong Soon Kim, David A Lynch, Frederick W Miller, Susanna M Proudman, Luca Richeldi, Jay H Ryu, Nora Sandorfi, Catherine Sarver, Athol U Wells, Vibeke Strand, Eric L Matteson, Kevin K Brown, James R Seibold

Lung transplantation

Original article: Development and validation of a lung transplant-specific disability questionnaire (19 December, 2013)
Jonathan Paul Singer, Paul David Blanc, Y Monica Dean, Steven Hays, Lorriana Leard, Jasleen Kukreja, Jeffrey Golden, Patricia P Katz

Lung cancer

Original article: DNA copy number aberrations in endobronchial lesions: a validated predictor for cancer (13 November, 2013)
Robert A A van Boerdonk, Johannes M A Daniels, Peter J F Snijders, Katrien Grünberg, Erik Thunnissen, Mark A van de Wiel, Bauke Ylstra, Pieter E Postmus, Chris J L M Meijer, Gerrit A Meijer, Egbert F Smit, Thomas G Sutedja, Daniëlle A M Heideman

Tuberculosis

Original article: High treatment success in children treated for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: an observational cohort study (24 September, 2013)
James A Seddon, Anneke C Hesseling, Peter Godfrey-Faussett, H Simon Schaaf

Respiratory epidemiology

Original article: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease mortality and prevalence: the associations with smoking and poverty—a BOLD analysis (18 December, 2013)
Peter Burney, Anamika Jithoo, Bernet Kato, Christer Janson, David Mannino, Ewa Niżankowska-Mogilnicka, Michael Studnicka, Wan Tan, Eric Bateman, Ali Koçabas, William M Vollmer, Thorarrin Gislason, Guy Marks, Parvaiz A Koul, Imed Harrabi, Louisa Gnatiuc, Sonia Buist, for the Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease (BOLD) Study

Reviews

The promise of translational and personalised approaches for paediatric obstructive sleep apnoea: an ‘Omics’ perspective (18 February, 2014)
Hui-Leng Tan, Leila Kheirandish-Gozal, David Gozal
The genomic origins of asthma (25 March, 2014)
Sunita Sharma, Divya Chhabra, Alvin T Kho, Lystra P Hayden, Kelan G Tantisira, Scott T Weiss

Research letter

Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome leads to a functional deterioration of the acinus post lung transplant (8 November, 2013)
Bruce R Thompson, Yvonne M Hodgson, Tom Kotsimbos, Pam Liakakos, Matthew J Ellis, Gregory I Snell, Sylvia Verbanck

PostScript

Correspondences: COPD and IPF: it's all about regulation and balance (7 January, 2014)
Argyris Tzouvelekis, Demosthenes Bouros
Correspondence: Answer to ‘COPD and IPF: it's all about regulation and balance’ (16 January, 2014)
Jia Hou, Yongchang Sun, Hui Zeng
Correspondence: Defining obesity hypoventilation syndrome (3 January, 2014)
Aiman Tulaimat, Stephen Littleton

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Audit, research and guideline update: Design of the Subpopulations and Intermediate Outcomes in COPD Study (SPIROMICS) (12 September, 2013)
David Couper, Lisa M LaVange, MeiLan Han, R Graham Barr, Eugene Bleecker, Eric A Hoffman, Richard Kanner, Eric Kleerup, Fernando J Martinez, Prescott G Woodruff, Stephen Rennard, for the SPIROMICS Research Group

Basic science for the chest physician

Basic science for the chest physician: DNA copy number changes as diagnostic tools for lung cancer (4 November, 2013)
Anne M Bowcock

Case based discussions

Case based discussions: COPD, end of life and Ceiling of Treatment (2 January, 2014)
D Robin Taylor

Images in thorax

Images in thorax: Power injector associated iatrogenic air embolism to the right heart (30 July, 2013)
Sunny Jhamnani, Julio A Panza

Journal club summaries

Journal club summaries: What's hot that the other lot got (12 April, 2014)
Kathryn Prior

Miscellanea

Journal club: Ambrisentan for pulmonary fibrosis (16 September, 2013)
Ravi Punwani

Correction

Correction (12 April, 2014) Free

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May 2014 - Volume 69 - 5

Airwaves

Editorials

HOT off the breath

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Critical care

Interstitial lung disease

Lung transplantation

Lung cancer

Tuberculosis

Respiratory epidemiology

Reviews

Research letter

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Basic science for the chest physician

Case based discussions

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Miscellanea

Correction

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Table of contents

May 2014 - Volume 69 - 5

Airwaves

Editorials

HOT off the breath

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Critical care

Interstitial lung disease

Lung transplantation

Lung cancer

Tuberculosis

Respiratory epidemiology

Reviews

Research letter

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Basic science for the chest physician

Case based discussions

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Miscellanea

Correction

Issue Information