Thorax: 70 (7)

Airwaves

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

Editorials

Two Lovely Black Eyes; Oh, what a surprise! (13 May, 2015)
Ian Pavord, Andrew Bush
Mesenchymal stromal cells and the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS): challenges for clinical application (19 May, 2015)
J E Millar, J F Fraser, D F McAuley

HOT off the breath

The ambitious ‘95–95 by 2025’ roadmap for the diagnosis and management of fungal diseases (29 May, 2015)
David W Denning
Lumacaftor/ivacaftor for patients homozygous for Phe508del-CFTR: should we curb our enthusiasm? (12 June, 2015)
Andrew M Jones, Peter J Barry

Critical care

Original article: Vitamin D deficiency contributes directly to the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) (22 April, 2015)
Rachel C A Dancer, Dhruv Parekh, Sian Lax, Vijay D'Souza, Shengxing Zheng, Chris R Bassford, Daniel Park, D G Bartis, Rahul Mahida, Alice M Turner, Elizabeth Sapey, Wenbin Wei, Babu Naidu, Paul M Stewart, William D Fraser, Kenneth B Christopher, Mark S Cooper, Fang Gao, David M Sansom, Adrian R Martineau, Gavin D Perkins, David R Thickett
Original article:
Human mesenchymal stromal cells decrease the severity of acute lung injury induced by E. coli in the rat
(18 May, 2015)
James Devaney, Shahd Horie, Claire Masterson, Steve Elliman, Frank Barry, Timothy O'Brien, Gerard F Curley, Daniel O’Toole, John G Laffey

Interstitial lung disease

Original article:
Streptococcus pneumoniae triggers progression of pulmonary fibrosis through pneumolysin
(11 May, 2015)
Sarah Knippenberg, Bianca Ueberberg, Regina Maus, Jennifer Bohling, Nadine Ding, Meritxell Tort Tarres, Heinz-Gerd Hoymann, Danny Jonigk, Nicole Izykowski, James C Paton, Abiodun D Ogunniyi, Sandro Lindig, Michael Bauer, Tobias Welte, Werner Seeger, Andreas Guenther, Thomas H Sisson, Jack Gauldie, Martin Kolb, Ulrich A Maus

Respiratory epidemiology

Original article: Asthma exacerbations during the first trimester of pregnancy and congenital malformations: revisiting the association in a large representative cohort (17 April, 2015) Free
Lucie Blais, Fatima-Zohra Kettani, Amélie Forget, Marie-France Beauchesne, Catherine Lemière
Original article: Epidemiology of spontaneous pneumothorax: gender-related differences (27 April, 2015)
Antonio Bobbio, Agnès Dechartres, Samir Bouam, Diane Damotte, Antoine Rabbat, Jean-François Régnard, Nicolas Roche, Marco Alifano

Respiratory physiology

Original article: Effect of bariatric surgery on asthma control, lung function and bronchial and systemic inflammation in morbidly obese subjects with asthma (30 April, 2015)
Astrid van Huisstede, Arjan Rudolphus, Manuel Castro Cabezas, Laser Ulas Biter, Gert-Jan van de Geijn, Christian Taube, Pieter S Hiemstra, Gert-Jan Braunstahl

Respiratory research

Original article: Tiotropium attenuates IL-13-induced goblet cell metaplasia of human airway epithelial cells (20 May, 2015)
Loes E M Kistemaker, Pieter S Hiemstra, I Sophie T Bos, Susanne Bouwman, Maarten van den Berge, Machteld N Hylkema, Herman Meurs, Huib A M Kerstjens, Reinoud Gosens

Tuberculosis

Original article: Increased risk of mycobacterial infections associated with anti-rheumatic medications (24 April, 2015)
Sarah K Brode, Frances B Jamieson, Ryan Ng, Michael A Campitelli, Jeffrey C Kwong, J Michael Paterson, Ping Li, Alex Marchand-Austin, Claire Bombardier, Theodore K Marras

Review

Asthma–COPD overlap 2015: now we are six
(6 May, 2015)
Peter G Gibson, Vanessa M McDonald

Research letter

Research letter: Dynamic laryngeal narrowing in COPD may have effects on the trachea (4 May, 2015)
G S Haji, M I Polkey, J H Hull

PostScript

Correspondence: Dynamic laryngeal narrowing in COPD may have effects on the trachea (30 April, 2015)
Paul Leong, Simon Joosten, Garun Hamilton, Philip G Bardin
Correspondence: Sarcopenia in COPD (24 March, 2015)
Simone Scarlata, Matteo Cesari, Raffaele Antonelli Incalzi
Correspondence:
Sarcopenia definitions: where to draw the line? Response to Scarlata et al
(8 April, 2015)
Matthew Maddocks, Sarah E Jones, Samantha S C Kon, Jane L Canavan, Claire M Nolan, Amy L Clark, Michael I Polkey, William D-C Man

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Audit, research and guideline update: Human tissue models for a human disease: what are the barriers? (28 January, 2015)
Joanna Edwards, Maria Belvisi, Sven-Erik Dahlen, Stephen Holgate, Anthony Holmes
Audit, research and guideline update: British Thoracic Society community acquired pneumonia guideline and the NICE pneumonia guideline: how they fit together (14 May, 2015)
W S Lim, D L Smith, M P Wise, S A Welham

Case based discussion

Case based discussion: Severe dyspnoea in a patient with chronic myelogenous leukaemia on a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (2 May, 2015)
Celalettin Ustun, Nicole Randall, Eitan Podgaetz, Khalid Amin, H Erhan Dincer

Pulmonary puzzles

Pulmonary puzzles: An extra piece of grey (2 May, 2015)
Rajashree Ravindran, Simon Jordan, Andrew Bush

Images in thorax

Images in Thorax: Teenager with chest pain and swollen neck: a leave-it-alone condition (18 March, 2015)
Pen-Yuan Liao, Hung-Jung Wang

Journal club summaries

Journal club summaries: What's hot that the other lot got (12 June, 2015)
Benjamin Soar

Correction

Correction (12 June, 2015) Free

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Table of contents

July 2015 - Volume 70 - 7

Airwaves

Editorials

HOT off the breath

Critical care

Interstitial lung disease

Respiratory epidemiology

Respiratory physiology

Respiratory research

Tuberculosis

Review

Research letter

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Case based discussion

Pulmonary puzzles

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Correction

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Table of contents

July 2015 - Volume 70 - 7

Airwaves

Editorials

HOT off the breath

Critical care

Interstitial lung disease

Respiratory epidemiology

Respiratory physiology

Respiratory research

Tuberculosis

Review

Research letter

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Case based discussion

Pulmonary puzzles

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Correction

Issue Information