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Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (17 March, 2017) Free
The Triumvirate

Editorials

Climate change and lung health: the challenge for a new president (19 January, 2017) Free
Nicholas S Hopkinson, Nicholas Hart, Gisli Jenkins, Naftali Kaminski, Margaret Rosenfeld, Alan Smyth, Alex Wilkinson
Treatment decisions for MRSA in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF): when is enough, enough? (11 January, 2017)
Scott C Bell, Patrick A Flume
Sugar coating bronchiectasis (9 January, 2017)
Michael Loebinger
Beyond mortality or being mortal? Challenges in understanding and improving life after ARDS (9 February, 2017)
Catherine L Hough

Bronchiectasis

Original article:
FUT2 genotype influences lung function, exacerbation frequency and airway microbiota in non-CF bronchiectasis
(8 August, 2016)
Steven L Taylor, Richard J Woodman, Alice CH Chen, Lucy D Burr, David L Gordon, Michael A McGuckin, Steve Wesselingh, Geraint B Rogers

Critical care

Original article: Predictors of 6-month health utility outcomes in survivors of acute respiratory distress syndrome (20 July, 2016)
Samuel M Brown, Emily Wilson, Angela P Presson, Chong Zhang, Victor D Dinglas, Tom Greene, Ramona O Hopkins, Dale M Needham

Cystic fibrosis

Original article: Microbiological efficacy of early MRSA treatment in cystic fibrosis in a randomised controlled trial (15 November, 2016) Free
Marianne Sponer Muhlebach, Valeria Beckett, Elena Popowitch, Melissa B Miller, Arthur Baines, Nicole Mayer-Hamblett, Edith T Zemanick, Wynton C Hoover, Jill M VanDalfsen, Preston Campbell, Christopher H Goss, STAR-too study team
Original article: Effect of pulmonary exacerbations treated with oral antibiotics on clinical outcomes in cystic fibrosis (18 August, 2016)
Sanja Stanojevic, Alexandra McDonald, Valerie Waters, Sarah MacDonald, Eric Horton, Elizabeth Tullis, Felix Ratjen
Original Article:
Long-term clinical outcomes of ‘Prairie Epidemic Strain’ Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in adults with cystic fibrosis
(28 September, 2016)
Ranjani Somayaji, John C Lam, Michael G Surette, Barbara Waddell, Harvey R Rabin, Christopher D Sibley, Swathi Purighalla, Michael D Parkins

Interstitial lung disease

Original article: Nintedanib in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and preserved lung volume (26 September, 2016)
Martin Kolb, Luca Richeldi, Jürgen Behr, Toby M Maher, Wenbo Tang, Susanne Stowasser, Christoph Hallmann, Roland M du Bois

Paediatric lung disease

Original article: STAAR: a randomised controlled trial of electronic adherence monitoring with reminder alarms and feedback to improve clinical outcomes for children with asthma (4 November, 2016)
Robert W Morton, Heather E Elphick, Alan S Rigby, William J Daw, David A King, Laurie J Smith, Mark L Everard

Respiratory epidemiology

Original article: Respiratory symptoms in people living with HIV and the effect of antiretroviral therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis (24 October, 2016)
James Brown, Anjana Roy, Ross Harris, Sarah Filson, Margaret Johnson, Ibrahim Abubakar, Marc Lipman

Respiratory research

Original article: Assessing bronchodilator response in preschool children using spirometry (14 October, 2016)
Luciano E Busi, Sebastián Restuccia, Ricardo Tourres, Peter D Sly

Respiratory letter

Change in pulmonary mechanics and the effect on breathing pattern of high flow oxygen therapy in stable hypercapnic COPD (19 January, 2017)
Lara Pisani, Luca Fasano, Nadia Corcione, Vittoria Comellini, Muriel Assunta Musti, Maria Brandao, Damiano Bottone, Edoardo Calderini, Paolo Navalesi, Stefano Nava

Chest clinic

Research and guideline updates

Research and guideline updates: Adults miscoded and misdiagnosed as having pneumonia: results from the British Thoracic Society pneumonia audit (20 January, 2017)
Priya Daniel, Thomas Bewick, Sally Welham, Tricia M Mckeever, Wei Shen Lim

Case based discussions

Case based discussions: Bagpipe lung; a new type of interstitial lung disease? (22 August, 2016)
Jenny King, Malcolm Richardson, Anne-Marie Quinn, Jayne Holme, Nazia Chaudhuri

Images in thorax

Images in Thorax: Cavitary lung cancer with cartilage tissues in the wall mimicking aspergilloma (25 October, 2016)
Takashige Taoka, Tsutomu Shinohara, Keishi Naruse, Fumitaka Ogushi

Pulmonary puzzles

Pulmonary puzzles: A bloody bronchoscopy (10 January, 2017)
Karthi Srikanthan, Husain Shabeeh, Anthony De Souza, Pallav Shah

Journal club summaries

Journal club summaries: What's hot that the other's got (17 March, 2017)
Janice Higginson

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April 2017 - Volume 72 - 4

Airwaves

Editorials

Bronchiectasis

Critical care

Cystic fibrosis

Interstitial lung disease

Paediatric lung disease

Respiratory epidemiology

Respiratory research

Respiratory letter

Chest clinic

Research and guideline updates

Case based discussions

Images in thorax

Pulmonary puzzles

Journal club summaries

Issue Information

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Table of contents

April 2017 - Volume 72 - 4

Airwaves

Editorials

Bronchiectasis

Critical care

Cystic fibrosis

Interstitial lung disease

Paediatric lung disease

Respiratory epidemiology

Respiratory research

Respiratory letter

Chest clinic

Research and guideline updates

Case based discussions

Images in thorax

Pulmonary puzzles

Journal club summaries

Issue Information