Thorax: 71 (6)

Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (13 May, 2016) Free
Nicholas Hart, Gisli Jenkins, Alan Smyth

Editorials

The restrictive–obstructive continuum and the failing heart (16 February, 2016)
Gunnar Engström
A risk stratification tool for exacerbations of COPD: time to switch to DECAF (16 February, 2016)
Richard W Costello, Breda Cushen
Thorax protocol review: working with trialists to improve trial quality
(5 April, 2016)
Murali Shyamsundar, Alan R Smyth, Daniel F McAuley

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Original article: The EQ-5D-5L health status questionnaire in COPD: validity, responsiveness and minimum important difference (30 March, 2016)
Claire M Nolan, Louise Longworth, Joanne Lord, Jane L Canavan, Sarah E Jones, Samantha S C Kon, William D-C Man
Original article:
Exome-wide analysis of rare coding variation identifies novel associations with COPD and airflow limitation in MOCS3, IFIT3 and SERPINA12
(25 February, 2016)
Victoria E Jackson, Ioanna Ntalla, Ian Sayers, Richard Morris, Peter Whincup, Juan-Pablo Casas, Antoinette Amuzu, Minkyoung Choi, Caroline Dale, Meena Kumari, Jorgen Engmann, Noor Kalsheker, Sally Chappell, Tamar Guetta-Baranes, Tricia M McKeever, Colin N A Palmer, Roger Tavendale, John W Holloway, Avan A Sayer, Elaine M Dennison, Cyrus Cooper, Mona Bafadhel, Bethan Barker, Chris Brightling, Charlotte E Bolton, Michelle E John, Stuart G Parker, Miriam F Moffat, Andrew J Wardlaw, Martin J Connolly, David J Porteous, Blair H Smith, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Lynne Hocking, Kathleen E Stirrups, Panos Deloukas, David P Strachan, Ian P Hall, Martin D Tobin, Louise V Wain

Interstitial lung disease

Original article: End-of-life care in oxygen-dependent ILD compared with lung cancer: a national population-based study (10 February, 2016)
Zainab Ahmadi, Nicholas G Wysham, Staffan Lundström, Christer Janson, David C Currow, Magnus Ekström

Paediatric lung disease

Original article: Transplacental sildenafil rescues lung abnormalities in the rabbit model of diaphragmatic hernia (17 March, 2016)
Francesca M Russo, Jaan Toelen, M Patrice Eastwood, Julio Jimenez, Andre Hadyme Miyague, Greetje Vande Velde, Philip DeKoninck, Uwe Himmelreich, Patrizia Vergani, Karel Allegaert, Jan Deprest

Respiratory epidemiology

Original article: Lung function and airway obstruction: associations with circulating markers of cardiac function and incident heart failure in older men—the British Regional Heart Study (25 January, 2016)
S Goya Wannamethee, A Gerald Shaper, Olia Papacosta, Lucy Lennon, Paul Welsh, Peter H Whincup

Respiratory infection

Original article: Increasing burden of community-acquired pneumonia leading to hospitalisation, 1998–2014 (17 February, 2016)
T Phuong Quan, Nicola J Fawcett, John M Wrightson, John Finney, David Wyllie, Katie Jeffery, Nicola Jones, Brian Shine, Lorraine Clarke, Derrick Crook, A Sarah Walker, Timothy E A Peto

Sleep

Original article: Sleep-disordered breathing and daytime postural stability (18 February, 2016)
Francis Degache, Yannick Goy, Sopharat Vat, José Haba Rubio, Olivier Contal, Raphaël Heinzer

Tuberculosis

Original article: Bioaerosol production by patients with tuberculosis during normal tidal breathing: implications for transmission risk (25 February, 2016) Free
Fatima B Wurie, Stephen D Lawn, Helen Booth, Pam Sonnenberg, Andrew C Hayward

Review

Review of the British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2015, 2–4 December, London, UK (25 March, 2016)
Ricardo J José, James D Chalmers, Neil J Greening, Sam M Janes

Research letters

The dangers of widespread nitric oxide screening for primary ciliary dyskinesia (19 February, 2016)
Samuel A Collins, Laura Behan, Amanda Harris, Kerry Gove, Jane S Lucas
The utility of exhaled nitric oxide in patients with suspected asthma (22 February, 2016)
M J Martin, E Wilson, W Gerrard-Tarpey, G Meakin, G Hearson, T M McKeever, D E Shaw, T W Harrison
Caffeine inhibits TGFβ activation in epithelial cells, interrupts fibroblast responses to TGFβ, and reduces established fibrosis in ex vivo precision-cut lung slices
(24 February, 2016)
Amanda L Tatler, Josephine Barnes, Anthony Habgood, Amanda Goodwin, Robin J McAnulty, Gisli Jenkins

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Audit, research and guideline update: Time to first antibiotic and mortality in adults hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia: a matched-propensity analysis (11 November, 2015)
Priya Daniel, Chamira Rodrigo, Tricia M Mckeever, Mark Woodhead, Sally Welham, Wei Shen Lim

Case based discussions

Case based discussions: A case of behavioural hyperventilation associated with severe central sleep apnoea and follow-up management (23 March, 2016)
Yun Li, Jason G Weed, Rong Ren, Yuanfeng Sun, Ke Zou, Lin Lu, Xiangdong Tang

Images in thorax

Images in thorax: Persistent tachypnoea in an infant with cystic lung lucencies on CT scan (25 January, 2016)
Vijayasekharan Kalasekhar, Selvam Nithiya, Venkatesh Chandrasekaran, Reena Gulati, Sajini Elizabeth Jacob, Biswajit Dubashi
Images in thorax: Multiple giant bullae of the lung mimicking massive pneumothorax in a patient with osteogenesis imperfecta (12 February, 2016)
Marco Chiappetta, Dania Nachira, Venanzio Porziella, Maria Letizia Vita, Stefano Margaritora

Journal club summaries

Journal club summaries: What's hot that the other lot got (13 May, 2016)
Candy Lee

Correction

Erratum: ‘British Thoracic Society Guideline Group For The Ventilatory Management of Acute Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure in Adults. Managing acute hypercapnic respiratory failure in adults: where do we need to get to?’
(13 May, 2016) Free

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June 2016 - Volume 71 - 6

Airwaves

Editorials

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Interstitial lung disease

Paediatric lung disease

Respiratory epidemiology

Respiratory infection

Sleep

Tuberculosis

Review

Research letters

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Case based discussions

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Correction

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Table of contents

June 2016 - Volume 71 - 6

Airwaves

Editorials

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Interstitial lung disease

Paediatric lung disease

Respiratory epidemiology

Respiratory infection

Sleep

Tuberculosis

Review

Research letters

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Case based discussions

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Correction

Issue Information