Thorax: 72 (9)

Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (21 August, 2017) Free
The Triumvirate

Editorials

Ambient particulate matter and COPD in China: a challenge for respiratory health research (25 April, 2017)
Anke Hüls, Tamara Schikowski
Short course treatment for MDR TB: jumping the gun? (25 April, 2017)
Anna Turkova, Beate Kampmann
Ventilator-associated pneumonia: when is a pathogen not a pathogen? (2 May, 2017)
Michael J Cox
Radiation exposure during lung cancer diagnostic work-up: how important in the wider picture? (5 July, 2017)
Nick Watson
Defining the path: lung cancer CT screening in Europe (19 July, 2017)
Matthew E Callister, Sam M Janes

Biomarkers of disease

Original article: CXCL14 is a candidate biomarker for Hedgehog signalling in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (1 March, 2017)
Guiquan Jia, Sanjay Chandriani, Alexander R Abbas, Daryle J DePianto, Elsa N N'Diaye, Murat B Yaylaoglu, Heather M Moore, Ivan Peng, Jason DeVoss, Harold R Collard, Paul J Wolters, Jackson G Egen, Joseph R Arron

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Original article: Association between exposure to ambient particulate matter and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: results from a cross-sectional study in China (9 December, 2016)
Sha Liu, Yumin Zhou, Suixin Liu, Xinyu Chen, Weifeng Zou, Dongxing Zhao, Xiaochen Li, Jinding Pu, Lingmei Huang, Jinlong Chen, Bing Li, Shiliang Liu, Pixin Ran
Original Article: Socio-environmental correlates of physical activity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (1 March, 2017)
Ane Arbillaga-Etxarri, Elena Gimeno-Santos, Anael Barberan-Garcia, Marta Benet, Eulàlia Borrell, Payam Dadvand, Maria Foraster, Alicia Marín, Mònica Monteagudo, Robert Rodriguez-Roisin, Pere Vall-Casas, Jordi Vilaró, Judith Garcia-Aymerich

Critical care

Original article: The dynamics of the pulmonary microbiome during mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit and the association with occurrence of pneumonia (18 January, 2017)
Tetyana Zakharkina, Ignacio Martin-Loeches, Sébastien Matamoros, Pedro Povoa, Antoni Torres, Janine B Kastelijn, Jorrit J Hofstra, B de Wever, Menno de Jong, Marcus J Schultz, Peter J Sterk, Antonio Artigas, Lieuwe D J Bos
Original article: Ultrasound evaluation of diaphragm function in mechanically ventilated patients: comparison to phrenic stimulation and prognostic implications (30 March, 2017)
Bruno-Pierre Dubé, Martin Dres, Julien Mayaux, Suela Demiri, Thomas Similowski, Alexandre Demoule

Lung cancer

Original article: Risk stratification based on screening history: the NELSON lung cancer screening study (30 March, 2017)
Uraujh Yousaf-Khan, Carlijn van der Aalst, Pim A de Jong, Marjolein Heuvelmans, Ernst Scholten, Joan Walter, Kristiaan Nackaerts, Harry Groen, Rozemarijn Vliegenthart, Kevin ten Haaf, Matthijs Oudkerk, Harry de Koning
Original article: Mortality, survival and incidence rates in the ITALUNG randomised lung cancer screening trial (4 April, 2017) Free
Eugenio Paci, Donella Puliti, Andrea Lopes Pegna, Laura Carrozzi, Giulia Picozzi, Fabio Falaschi, Francesco Pistelli, Ferruccio Aquilini, Cristina Ocello, Marco Zappa, Francesca M Carozzi, Mario Mascalchi

Orphan lung disease

Original article: Validation of a health-related quality of life instrument for primary ciliary dyskinesia (QOL-PCD) (28 February, 2017)
Laura Behan, Margaret W Leigh, Sharon D Dell, Audrey Dunn Galvin, Alexandra L Quittner, Jane S Lucas

State of the art review

State of the art thoracic ultrasound: intervention and therapeutics (14 April, 2017) Free
John P Corcoran, Rachid Tazi-Mezalek, Fabien Maldonado, Lonny B Yarmus, Jouke T Annema, Coenraad F N Koegelenberg, Victoria St Noble, Najib M Rahman

Research letters

Multidrug-resistant TB in Eastern region of the EU: is the shorter regimen an exception or a rule? (16 February, 2017)
Yanina Balabanova, Lena Fiebig, Olga Ignatyeva, Vija Riekstina, Manfred Danilovits, Kaadri Jaama, Edita Davidaviciene, Birute Radiulyte, Christina Marcela Popa, Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy, Francis Drobniewski
Exposure of patients to ionising radiation during lung cancer diagnostic work-up (25 April, 2017)
Robert C Rintoul, Rachel Atherton, Katharine Tweed, Stuart Yates, Edwin R Chilvers

Chest clinic

Case based discussions

Case based discussion: Peer support to improve recovery following critical care discharge: a case-based discussion (17 February, 2017)
Joanne McPeake, Theodore J Iwashyna, Helen Devine, Pamela MacTavish, Tara Quasim
Case based discussions: Unique radiological features of two cases of primary pulmonary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (14 July, 2017)
Yuu Saitoh, Ayae Ohnishi-Amemiya, Michiyo Asano, Yuko Tanaka, Seiichiro Yoshizawa, Hiroaki Fujimoto, Yoshikazu Itoh, Naoya Nakamura, Kazuma Ohyashiki

Images in thorax

Images in Thorax: Pulmonary microvascular architecture in hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (2 January, 2017)
Maximilian Ackermann, Steven J Mentzer, Wilfried Roth, Urban Geisthoff, Erich Stoelben
Images in Thorax: Macroscopic inflammatory tracheal and endobronchial nodules in Sjögren's syndrome (2 December, 2016)
Hiromichi Hara, Kazuyoshi Kuwano, Shunsuke Minagawa, Takanori Numata, Jun Araya, Katsutoshi Nakayama

Journal club summaries

Journal club summaries: What’s hot that the other lot got (21 August, 2017)
Janice Ward

Electronic pages

Thank you to our reviewers 2016 (3 July, 2017)

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September 2017 - Volume 72 - 9

Airwaves

Editorials

Biomarkers of disease

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Critical care

Lung cancer

Orphan lung disease

State of the art review

Research letters

Chest clinic

Case based discussions

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Electronic pages

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September 2017 - Volume 72 - 9

Airwaves

Editorials

Biomarkers of disease

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Critical care

Lung cancer

Orphan lung disease

State of the art review

Research letters

Chest clinic

Case based discussions

Images in thorax

Journal club summaries

Electronic pages

Issue Information