Thorax: 70 (8)

Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (14 July, 2015) Free
Andrew Bush, Ian Pavord

Editorials

Prostanoids as anti-inflammatory therapy: separating the good from the bad (17 June, 2015)
Alan J Knox
New insights in the pathophysiology of chronic intermittent hypoxia-induced NASH: the role of gut–liver axis impairment (16 June, 2015)
Judith Aron-Wisnewsky, Jean-Louis Pepin
Pulmonary nodules: bringing order out of chaos (14 July, 2015)
Angela Morgan, Mark Slade

HOT off the breath

Preventing out-of-hospital asthma deaths (20 May, 2015)
William F S Sellers

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Original article: Longitudinal shape irregularity of airway lumen assessed by CT in patients with bronchial asthma and COPD (29 May, 2015)
Tsuyoshi Oguma, Toyohiro Hirai, Motonari Fukui, Naoya Tanabe, Satoshi Marumo, Hajime Nakamura, Hisao Ito, Susumu Sato, Akio Niimi, Isao Ito, Hisako Matsumoto, Shigeo Muro, Michiaki Mishima
Original article: Incidental findings on chest CT imaging are associated with increased COPD exacerbations and mortality (29 May, 2015)
Pushpa M Jairam, Yolanda van der Graaf, Jan-Willem J Lammers, Willem P Th M Mali, Pim A de Jong

Respiratory research

Original article: Aerobic training decreases bronchial hyperresponsiveness and systemic inflammation in patients with moderate or severe asthma: a randomised controlled trial (10 June, 2015) Free
Andrezza França-Pinto, Felipe A R Mendes, Regina Maria de Carvalho-Pinto, Rosana Câmara Agondi, Alberto Cukier, Rafael Stelmach, Beatriz M Saraiva-Romanholo, Jorge Kalil, Milton A Martins, Pedro Giavina-Bianchi, Celso R F Carvalho
Original article:
Anti-inflammatory effects of PGE₂ in the lung: role of the EP₄ receptor subtype
(4 May, 2015)
Mark A Birrell, Sarah A Maher, Bilel Dekkak, Victoria Jones, Sissie Wong, Peter Brook, Maria G Belvisi
Original article: Lebrikizumab in moderate-to-severe asthma: pooled data from two randomised placebo-controlled studies (22 May, 2015)
Nicola A Hanania, Michael Noonan, Jonathan Corren, Phillip Korenblat, Yanan Zheng, Saloumeh K Fischer, Melissa Cheu, Wendy S Putnam, Elaine Murray, Heleen Scheerens, Cecile TJ Holweg, Romeo Maciuca, Sarah Gray, Ramona Doyle, Dana McClintock, Julie Olsson, John G Matthews, Karl Yen
Original article: The development and first validation of the Manchester Early Morning Symptoms Index (MEMSI) for patients with COPD (3 June, 2015)
Adam P Garrow, Naimat Khan, Sarah Tyson, Jørgen Vestbo, Dave Singh, Janelle Yorke

Thoracic surgery

Original article: Outcome of surgery versus radiotherapy after induction treatment in patients with N2 disease: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials (12 May, 2015)
P J McElnay, A Choong, E Jordan, F Song, E Lim

Sleep

Original article: Altered gut–liver axis and hepatic adiponectin expression in OSAS: novel mediators of liver injury in paediatric non-alcoholic fatty liver (11 June, 2015)
Valerio Nobili, Anna Alisi, Renato Cutrera, Guido Carpino, Cristiano De Stefanis, Valentina D'Oria, Rita De Vito, Salvatore Cucchiara, Eugenio Gaudio, Giovanni Musso

Review

Non-coding RNAs in the pathogenesis of COPD (20 May, 2015)
Elise G De Smet, Pieter Mestdagh, Jo Vandesompele, Guy G Brusselle, Ken R Bracke

PostScript

Correspondence: Radiographic patterns of acute chest syndrome (13 April, 2015)
Armand Mekontso Dessap
Correspondence: Long-term lung function in postinfectious bronchiolitis obliterans (28 April, 2015)
Martin Rosewich, Jonas Eckrich, Stefan Zielen
Correspondence: Authors’ response: Long-term lung function in postinfectious bronchiolitis obliterans (7 May, 2015)
Alejandro Colom, Alberto Maffey, Facundo Garcia Bournissen, Alejandro Teper

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Audit, research and guideline update: The British Thoracic Society guidelines on the investigation and management of pulmonary nodules (1 July, 2015)
David R Baldwin, Matthew EJ Callister
Audit, research and guideline update: The Study Team for Early Life Asthma Research (STELAR) consortium ‘Asthma e-lab’: team science bringing data, methods and investigators together (24 March, 2015)
Adnan Custovic, John Ainsworth, Hasan Arshad, Christopher Bishop, Iain Buchan, Paul Cullinan, Graham Devereux, John Henderson, John Holloway, Graham Roberts, Steve Turner, Ashley Woodcock, Angela Simpson

Case based discussions

Case based discussions: Iatrogenic injury to the intercostal artery: aetiology, diagnosis and therapeutic intervention (30 April, 2015)
Ioannis Psallidas, Emma J Helm, Nick A Maskell, Lonny Yarmus, David J Feller-Kopman, Fergus V Gleeson, Najib M Rahman

Opinion

Opinion: Comprehensive respiratory assessment in advanced COPD: a ‘campus to clinic’ translational framework (11 May, 2015)
Michael C Steiner, Rachael A Evans, Neil J Greening, Robert C Free, Gerrit Woltmann, Nicole Toms, Michael D Morgan

Images in thorax

Images in thorax: Endobronchial lipoma mimicking bronchial carcinoid tumour (31 March, 2015)
Yvonne Nussbaumer-Ochsner, Frank Rassouli, Frank Uhlmann, Robert Thurnheer

Journal club summaries

Journal club summaries: What's hot that the other lot got (14 July, 2015)
Kathryn Prior

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August 2015 - Volume 70 - 8

Airwaves

Editorials

HOT off the breath

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Respiratory research

Thoracic surgery

Sleep

Review

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Case based discussions

Opinion

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

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Table of contents

August 2015 - Volume 70 - 8

Airwaves

Editorials

HOT off the breath

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Respiratory research

Thoracic surgery

Sleep

Review

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Case based discussions

Opinion

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Issue Information