Thorax: 70 (9)

Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (13 August, 2015) Free
Andrew Bush, Ian Pavord

Editorials

Childhood pneumonia: the role of viruses (19 June, 2015)
H J Zar, F P Polack
Keeping up appearances: the importance of maintaining health status in COPD (19 June, 2015)
Lorcan McGarvey
Obstructive sleep apnoea and cardiovascular calcification (13 August, 2015)
Magnus Bäck, Françoise Stanke-Labesque
Deleterious systemic effects of OSA: how much evidence do we need? (14 July, 2015)
Malcolm Kohler
Look back with (some) anger, and a lot of pleasure (13 August, 2015)
Andrew Bush, Ian Pavord

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Original article: Characteristics of COPD in never-smokers and ever-smokers in the general population: results from the CanCOLD study (5 June, 2015)
W C Tan, D D Sin, J Bourbeau, P Hernandez, K R Chapman, R Cowie, J M FitzGerald, D D Marciniuk, F Maltais, A S Buist, J Road, J C Hogg, M Kirby, H Coxson, C Hague, J Leipsic, D E O'Donnell, S D Aaron, CanCOLD Collaborative Research Group

Interstitial lung disease

Original article: Palliative care for patients with advanced fibrotic lung disease: a randomised controlled phase II and feasibility trial of a community case conference intervention (23 June, 2015)
Sabrina Bajwah, Joy R Ross, Athol U Wells, Kabir Mohammed, Christina Oyebode, Surinder S Birring, Amit S Patel, Jonathan Koffman, Irene J Higginson, Julia Riley

Paediatric lung disease

Original article: Chest radiographic abnormalities in HIV-infected African children: a longitudinal study (9 June, 2015)
Richard D Pitcher, Carl J Lombard, Mark F Cotton, Stephen J Beningfield, Lesley Workman, Heather J Zar

Respiratory infection

Original article: Respiratory viruses associated with community-acquired pneumonia in children: matched case–control study (15 June, 2015) Free
Samuel Rhedin, Ann Lindstrand, Annie Hjelmgren, Malin Ryd-Rinder, Lars Öhrmalm, Thomas Tolfvenstam, Åke Örtqvist, Maria Rotzén-Östlund, Benita Zweygberg-Wirgart, Birgitta Henriques-Normark, Kristina Broliden, Pontus Naucler
Original article: Toll-like receptor 7 governs interferon and inflammatory responses to rhinovirus and is suppressed by IL-5-induced lung eosinophilia (24 June, 2015)
Luke Hatchwell, Adam Collison, Jason Girkin, Kristy Parsons, Junyao Li, Jie Zhang, Simon Phipps, Darryl Knight, Nathan W Bartlett, Sebastian L Johnston, Paul S Foster, Peter A B Wark, Joerg Mattes

Respiratory research

Original article: Microfibrillar-associated protein 4 modulates airway smooth muscle cell phenotype in experimental asthma (2 June, 2015)
Bartosz Pilecki, Anders Schlosser, Helle Wulf-Johansson, Thomas Trian, Jesper B Moeller, Niels Marcussen, Juan A Aguilar-Pimentel, Martin Hrabe de Angelis, Jorgen Vestbo, Patrick Berger, Uffe Holmskov, Grith L Sorensen

Sleep

Original article: Association of sleep characteristics with atrial fibrillation: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (18 May, 2015)
Younghoon Kwon, Sina A Gharib, Mary L Biggs, David R Jacobs, Alvaro Alonso, Daniel Duprez, Joao Lima, Gen-Min Lin, Elsayed Z Soliman, Reena Mehra, Susan Redline, Susan R Heckbert
Original article: Objectively measured sleep characteristics and prevalence of coronary artery calcification: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Sleep study (8 July, 2015)
Pamela L Lutsey, Robyn L McClelland, Daniel Duprez, Steven Shea, Eyal Shahar, Mako Nagayoshi, Matthew Budoff, Joel D Kaufman, Susan Redline
Original article: Association of incident obstructive sleep apnoea with outcomes in a large cohort of US veterans (2 June, 2015)
Miklos Z Molnar, Istvan Mucsi, Marta Novak, Zoltan Szabo, Amado X Freire, Kim M Huch, Onyebuchi A Arah, Jennie Z Ma, Jun L Lu, John J Sim, Elani Streja, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, Csaba P Kovesdy

PostScript

Correspondence:
Further evidence for an association between LCI and FEV₁ in patients with PCD
(12 May, 2015)
Sylvia Nyilas, Anne Schlegtendal, Sophie Yammine, Carmen Casaulta, Philipp Latzin, Cordula Koerner-Rettberg
Correspondence: Nitrogen washout measurements of lung clearance index (LCI) (16 June, 2015)
Andrew Bush, Samantha Irving

Review

Asthma in Latin America (23 June, 2015)
Erick Forno, Mudita Gogna, Alfonso Cepeda, Anahi Yañez, Dirceu Solé, Philip Cooper, Lydiana Avila, Manuel Soto-Quiros, Jose A Castro-Rodriguez, Juan C Celedón

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Audit, research and guideline update: Ultrasound-guided pneumothorax induction prior to local anaesthetic thoracoscopy (6 February, 2015)
John P Corcoran, Ioannis Psallidas, Robert J Hallifax, Ambika Talwar, Annemarie Sykes, Najib M Rahman
Audit, research and guideline update: Computerised clinical decision support for suspected PE (9 February, 2015)
David Jiménez, Santiago Resano, Remedios Otero, Carolina Jurkojc, Ana Karina Portillo, Pedro Ruiz-Artacho, Jesús Corres, Agustina Vicente, Paul L den Exter, Menno V Huisman, Lisa Moores, Roger D Yusen

Images in thorax

Images in thorax: Right intralobar sequestration with arterial supply from left gastric artery (31 March, 2015)
Ilaria Onorati, Daniele Diso, Michele Anzidei, Tiziano De Giacomo, Marco Anile
Images in thorax: Intrathoracic extramedullary haemopoiesis in a patient with hereditary spherocytosis (2 April, 2015)
Heena Mistry, Nilushi Ranaweera, Diane E Laws

Journal club summaries

Journal club summaries: What's hot that the other lot got (13 August, 2015)
Candy Lee

Correction

Correction (13 August, 2015) Free

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September 2015 - Volume 70 - 9

Airwaves

Editorials

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Interstitial lung disease

Paediatric lung disease

Respiratory infection

Respiratory research

Sleep

PostScript

Review

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Correction

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Table of contents

September 2015 - Volume 70 - 9

Airwaves

Editorials

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Interstitial lung disease

Paediatric lung disease

Respiratory infection

Respiratory research

Sleep

PostScript

Review

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Correction

Issue Information