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Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (12 March, 2015) Free
Andrew Bush, Ian Pavord

Editorials

Wavering in the breeze: is multiple breath washout useful in primary ciliary dyskinesia? (13 February, 2015)
Andrew Bush, Samantha Irving
Electronic cigarettes: reasons to be cautious (14 January, 2015)
Andrew Furber
Electronic cigarettes: pro (12 March, 2015)
John Britton

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Original article: Efficacy and safety of once-daily QVA149 compared with the free combination of once-daily tiotropium plus twice-daily formoterol in patients with moderate-to-severe COPD (QUANTIFY): a randomised, non-inferiority study (12 February, 2015)
Roland Buhl, Christian Gessner, Wolfgang Schuermann, Karin Foerster, Christian Sieder, Simone Hiltl, Stephanie Korn

Critical care

Original article: Surveillance for lower airway pathogens in mechanically ventilated patients by metabolomic analysis of exhaled breath: a case-control study (6 February, 2015)
Stephen J Fowler, Maria Basanta-Sanchez, Yun Xu, Royston Goodacre, Paul M Dark

Lung cancer

Original article: Bronchoscopic transparenchymal nodule access (BTPNA): first in human trial of a novel procedure for sampling solitary pulmonary nodules (6 March, 2015) Free
Felix JF Herth, Ralf Eberhardt, Daniel Sterman, Gerard A Silvestri, Hans Hoffmann, Pallav L Shah

Pulmonary vasculature

Original article: Short-term clinical outcome of normotensive patients with acute PE and high plasma lactate (6 February, 2015)
Simone Vanni, David Jiménez, Peiman Nazerian, Fulvio Morello, Michele Parisi, Elena Daghini, Mauro Pratesi, Raquel López, Pedro Bedate, José Luis Lobo, Luis Jara-Palomares, Ana K Portillo, Stefano Grifoni

Orphan lung disease

Original article: Lung structure–function correlation in patients with primary ciliary dyskinesia (11 February, 2015)
Mieke Boon, Francois L Vermeulen, Willem Gysemans, Marijke Proesmans, Mark Jorissen, Kris De Boeck

Sleep

Original article: Role of primary care in the follow-up of patients with obstructive sleep apnoea undergoing CPAP treatment: a randomised controlled trial (12 March, 2015)
M Sánchez-de-la-Torre, N Nadal, A Cortijo, JF Masa, J Duran-Cantolla, J Valls, S Serra, A Sánchez-de-la-Torre, M Gracia, F Ferrer, I Lorente, M C Urgeles, T Alonso, A Fuentes, F Armengol, M Lumbierres, F J Vázquez-Polo, F Barbé,

Reviews

A chest physician's guide to mechanisms of sinonasal disease (6 January, 2015)
V Hox, T Maes, W Huvenne, C Van Drunen, J A Vanoirbeek, G Joos, C Bachert, W Fokkens, J L Ceuppens, B Nemery, P W Hellings
A systematic review of the clinical effectiveness of first-line chemotherapy for adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (6 February, 2015)
Gerlinde Pilkington, Angela Boland, Tamara Brown, James Oyee, Adrian Bagust, Rumona Dickson
Year in review 2014. Paediatric and adult clinical studies (12 March, 2015)
Andy Bush, Ian Pavord

PostScript

Correspondence: Letter in response to TB during TNF-α inhibitor therapy, despite screening (29 October, 2014)
K Manalan, A Singanayagam, M Wickremasinghe, O M Kon
Correspondence: Inconsistent results or inconsistent methods? A plea for standardisation of biomarker sampling in mesothelioma studies (5 December, 2014)
Kevin G Blyth
Correspondence: Author's response: Inconsistent results or inconsistent methods? A plea for standardisation of biomarker sampling in mesothelioma studies (5 December, 2014)
Jenette Creaney, Bruce W S Robinson

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Audit, research and guideline update: The cost of treating severe refractory asthma in the UK: an economic analysis from the British Thoracic Society Difficult Asthma Registry (10 June, 2014)
Stephen O'Neill, Joan Sweeney, Chris C Patterson, Andrew Menzies-Gow, Rob Niven, Adel H Mansur, Christine Bucknall, Rekha Chaudhuri, Neil C Thomson, Chris E Brightling, Ciaran O'Neill, Liam G Heaney,
Audit, research and guideline update: Test performance of PET-CT for mediastinal lymph node staging of pulmonary carcinoid tumours (14 August, 2014)
Holly A Pattenden, Maria Leung, Emma Beddow, Michael Dusmet, Andrew G Nicholson, Michael Shackcloth, Saifullah Mohamed, Adnan Darr, Babu Naidu, Swetha Iyer, Adrian Marchbank, Amy Greenwood, Doug West, Felice Granato, Alan Kirk, Priyadharshanan Ariyaratnam, Mahmoud Loubani, Eric Lim,
Audit, research and guideline update: CT features of pulmonary arterial hypertension and its major subtypes: a systematic CT evaluation of 292 patients from the ASPIRE Registry (18 December, 2014)
S Rajaram, A J Swift, R Condliffe, C Johns, C A Elliot, C Hill, C Davies, J Hurdman, I Sabroe, J M Wild, D G Kiely

Basic Science for the Chest Physician

Basic science for the Chest Physician: Non-coding RNAs and respiratory disease (5 November, 2014)
Pieter Mestdagh, Jo Vandesompele, Guy Brusselle, Karim Vermaelen

Opinion

Opinion:
The centenary (2015) of the transfer factor for carbon monoxide (T_LCO): Marie Krogh's legacy
(2 December, 2014)
J Michael B Hughes, Colin D R Borland

Images in thorax

Images in Thorax: An uncommon complication of staphylococcal pneumonia: pneumopericardium with cardiac tamponade (6 January, 2015)
Edson Marchiori, Clarissa Canella, Bruno Hochhegger, Gláucia Zanetti

Obituary

Obituary: Max Klein: a great man and a great paediatrician (12 March, 2015)
Heather J Zar, Eugene G Weinberg

Journal club summaries

Journal club summaries: What's hot that the other lot got (12 March, 2015)
Candy Lee

Correction

Correction (12 March, 2015) Free

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April 2015 - Volume 70 - 4

Airwaves

Editorials

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Critical care

Lung cancer

Pulmonary vasculature

Orphan lung disease

Sleep

Reviews

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Basic Science for the Chest Physician

Opinion

Images in thorax

Obituary

Journal club summaries

Correction

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Table of contents

April 2015 - Volume 70 - 4

Airwaves

Editorials

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Critical care

Lung cancer

Pulmonary vasculature

Orphan lung disease

Sleep

Reviews

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Basic Science for the Chest Physician

Opinion

Images in thorax

Obituary

Journal club summaries

Correction

Issue Information