Thorax: 75 (4)

Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (27 March, 2020) Free
The Triumvirate

Editorial

‘Good vibrations’: positional treatments for obstructive sleep apnoea (8 March, 2020)
Raphael Heinzer

Commentary

Smoking ban in cars protects children, but is vaping ‘The Elephant in the Car’? (27 March, 2020)
Christabella Ng, Alan Robert Smyth

Bronchiectasis

Original research: Prospective community programme versus parent-driven care to prevent respiratory morbidity in children following hospitalisation with severe bronchiolitis or pneumonia (24 February, 2020)
Catherine Ann Byrnes, Adrian Trenholme, Shirley Lawrence, Harley Aish, Julie Anne Higham, Karen Hoare, Aileen Elborough, Charissa McBride, Lyndsay Le Comte, Christine McIntosh, Florina Chan Mow, Mirjana Jaksic, Russell Metcalfe, Christin Coomarasamy, William Leung, Alison Vogel, Teuila Percival, Henare Mason, Joanna Stewart

Lung cancer

Original research: External validation of a convolutional neural network artificial intelligence tool to predict malignancy in pulmonary nodules (5 March, 2020)
David R Baldwin, Jennifer Gustafson, Lyndsey Pickup, Carlos Arteta, Petr Novotny, Jerome Declerck, Timor Kadir, Catarina Figueiras, Albert Sterba, Alan Exell, Vaclav Potesil, Paul Holland, Hazel Spence, Alison Clubley, Emma O'Dowd, Matthew Clark, Victoria Ashford-Turner, Matthew EJ Callister, Fergus V Gleeson

Respiratory epidemiology

Original research: Body mass index and weight change are associated with adult lung function trajectories: the prospective ECRHS study (25 February, 2020)
Gabriela P Peralta, Alessandro Marcon, Anne-Elie Carsin, Michael J Abramson, Simone Accordini, André FS Amaral, Josep M Antó, Gayan Bowatte, Peter Burney, Angelo Corsico, Pascal Demoly, Shyamali Dharmage, Bertil Forsberg, Elaine Fuertes, Vanessa Garcia-Larsen, Thorarinn Gíslason, José-Antonio Gullón, Joachim Heinrich, Mathias Holm, Deborah L Jarvis, Christer Janson, Rain Jogi, Ane Johannessen, Bénédicte Leynaert, Jesús Martínez-Moratalla Rovira, Dennis Nowak, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Chantal Raherison, José-Luis Sánchez-Ramos, Torben Sigsgaard, Valérie Siroux, Giulia Squillacioti, Isabel Urrutia, Joost Weyler, Jan-Paul Zock, Judith Garcia-Aymerich

Respiratory research

Original research: Activation of complement component 3 is associated with airways disease and pulmonary emphysema in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (20 January, 2020)
Michael E O'Brien, Laura Fee, Niall Browne, Tomás P Carroll, Paula Meleady, Michael Henry, Karen McQuillan, Mark P Murphy, Mark Logan, Cormac McCarthy, Oliver J McElvaney, Emer P Reeves, Noel G McElvaney

Sleep

Original research: Comparing treatment effects of a convenient vibratory positional device to CPAP in positional OSA: a crossover randomised controlled trial (2 January, 2020)
Yingjuan Mok, Alvin Tan, Pon Poh Hsu, Audrey Seow, Yiong Huak Chan, Hang Siang Wong, Yvonne Poh, Keith K H Wong

State of the art review

Sputum microbiome profiling in COPD: beyond singular pathogen detection (29 January, 2020)
Benedikt Ditz, Stephanie Christenson, John Rossen, Chris Brightling, Huib A M Kerstjens, Maarten van den Berge, Alen Faiz

Brief communications

Impact of banning smoking in cars with children on exposure to second-hand smoke: a natural experiment in England and Scotland (27 January, 2020)
Anthony A Laverty, Thomas Hone, Eszter P Vamos, Philip E Anyanwu, David Taylor-Robinson, Frank de Vocht, Christopher Millett, Nicholas S Hopkinson
Implementation of targeted screening for lung cancer in a high-risk population within routine NHS practice using low-dose computed tomography (3 March, 2020) Free
Helen Grover, Thomas Ross, Elizabeth Fuller
COPD clinical control as a predictor of future exacerbations: concept validation in the SPARK study population (10 February, 2020)
Miriam Barrecheguren, Konstantinos Kostikas, Karen Mezzi, Steven Shen, Bernardino Alcazar, Juan José Soler-Cataluña, Marc Miravitlles, Jadwiga A Wedzicha

Chest clinic

Case based discussions: Going with the flow: diagnosing a lymphocyte-rich pleural effusion (31 January, 2020)
Catherine Hyams, Megan H Jenkins, Richard Daly, Izak C Heys, Nicholas A Maskell
Images in Thorax: Just because it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, doesn"t mean it can"t be a goose! (23 January, 2020)
Nicolas Piliero, Adrien Jankowski, Frédéric Thony, Bruno Degano, Hélène Bouvaist
Images in Thorax: Rapid development of bullous lung disease: a complication of electronic cigarette use (10 February, 2020)
Saminder Singh Kalra, Faye Pais, Eloise Harman, Daniel Urbine
Journal club: Journal club (27 March, 2020) Free
David J F Smith

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April 2020 - Volume 75 - 4

Airwaves

Editorial

Commentary

Bronchiectasis

Lung cancer

Respiratory epidemiology

Respiratory research

Sleep

State of the art review

Brief communications

Chest clinic

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April 2020 - Volume 75 - 4

Airwaves

Editorial

Commentary

Bronchiectasis

Lung cancer

Respiratory epidemiology

Respiratory research

Sleep

State of the art review

Brief communications

Chest clinic

Issue Information