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Research letters

• Heterogeneity of respiratory disease in children and young adults with sickle cell disease (29 November, 2017)

  Alan Lunt, Lucy Mortimer, David Rees, Sue Height, Swee Lay Thein, Anne Greenough
• Local dornase alfa treatment reduces NETs-induced airway obstruction during severe RSV infection (5 August, 2017)

  Bart Cortjens, Rineke de Jong, Judith G Bonsing, Job B M van Woensel, Adriaan F G Antonis, Reinout A Bem
• Long-term treatment of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis with nintedanib: results from the TOMORROW trial and its open-label extension (9 October, 2017)

  Luca Richeldi, Michael Kreuter, Moisés Selman, Bruno Crestani, Anne-Marie Kirsten, Wim A Wuyts, Zuojun Xu, Katell Bernois, Susanne Stowasser, Manuel Quaresma, Ulrich Costabel
• Changes in dynamic lung mechanics after lung volume reduction coil treatment of severe emphysema (11 September, 2017)

  Demosthenes Makris, Sylvie Leroy, Johana Pradelli, Jonathan Benzaquen, Hervé Guenard, Jeanne-Marie Perotin, Spyros Zakynthinos, Epaminondas Zakynthinos, Gaëtan Deslee, Charles Hugo Marquette
• Influence of muscle mass in the assessment of lower limb strength in COPD: validation of the prediction equation (2 September, 2017)

  Ruth Trethewey, Dale Esliger, Emily Petherick, Rachael Evans, Neil Greening, Benjamin James, Andrew Kingsnorth, Mike Morgan, Mark Orme, Lauren Sherar, Sally Singh, Nicole Toms, Michael Steiner