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Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (14 October, 2021) Free
The Triumvirate

Editorials

Considerations for conducting and interpreting long-term follow-up of intervention studies: avoiding spoiled milk (14 June, 2021)
Iain Stewart, Chloe I Bloom
Maintaining light sedation is important: next steps for research (16 July, 2021)
John W Devlin, Bhavna Seth, Sarah Train, Dale M Needham
Refocusing the timeline of tuberculosis through the lens of BCG (5 July, 2021)
David Dowdy

Asthma

Original research: The effect of diet in infancy on asthma in young adults: the Merthyr Allergy Prevention Study (7 May, 2021) Free
Sadiyah Hand, Frank Dunstan, Ken Jones, Iolo Doull

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Original research: Small airway determinants of airflow limitation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (7 April, 2021)
Vasiliy V Polosukhin, Sergey S Gutor, Rui-Hong Du, Bradley W Richmond, Pierre P Massion, Pingsheng Wu, Justin M Cates, Kim L Sandler, Stephen I Rennard, Timothy S Blackwell

Critical care

Original research: Inconsistent relationship between depth of sedation and intensive care outcome: systematic review and meta-analysis (15 April, 2021)
Leanne M Aitken, Kalliopi Kydonaki, Bronagh Blackwood, Laurence G Trahair, Edward Purssell, Mandeep Sekhon, Timothy S Walsh
Original research: Transepithelial nasal potential difference in patients with, and at risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome (22 April, 2021)
Rob Mac Sweeney, Kiran Reddy, Jane C Davies, Mike Parker, Barry Kelly, J Stuart Elborn, John Conlon, Rejina M Verghis, Carolyn S Calfee, Michael A Matthay, Eric W F W Alton, Daniel F McAuley

Non-invasive ventilation

Original research: Nasal versus oronasal masks for home non-invasive ventilation in patients with chronic hypercapnia: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis (15 April, 2021)
Marius Lebret, Antoine Léotard, Jean Louis Pépin, Wolfram Windisch, Emelie Ekkernkamp, Mercedes Pallero, M-Ángeles Sánchez-Quiroga, Nicholas Hart, Julia L Kelly, Maxime Patout, Georg Chistian Funk, Marieke L Duiverman, Juan F Masa, Anita Simonds, Patrick Brian Murphy, Peter J Wijkstra, Michael Dreher, Jan Storre, Charles Khouri, Jean-Christian Borel

Respiratory epidemiology

Original research: Epidemiology and prognostic factors of pleural empyema (30 March, 2021)
Antonio Bobbio, Samir Bouam, Jerome Frenkiel, Kevin Zarca, Ludovic Fournel, Emelyne Canny, Philippe Icard, Raphaël Porcher, Marco Alifano

Sleep

Original research: Pulse arrival time, a novel sleep cardiovascular marker: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (16 April, 2021)
Younghoon Kwon, Christopher Wiles, B Eugene Parker, Brian R Clark, Min-Woong Sohn, Sara Mariani, Jin-Oh Hahn, David R Jacobs, James H Stein, Joao Lima, Vishesh Kapur, Andrew Wellman, Susan Redline, Ali Azarbarzin

Tuberculosis

Original research:
Timing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis exposure explains variation in BCG effectiveness: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(23 April, 2021)
James M Trauer, Andrew Kawai, Anna K Coussens, Manjula Datta, Bridget M Williams, Emma S McBryde, Romain Ragonnet

Brief communications

Inhaled nitric oxide improves the hepatopulmonary syndrome: a physiologic analysis (15 April, 2021)
Samir Gupta, Rosalind Tang, Abdul Al-Hesayen
Rectal organoid morphology analysis (ROMA) as a promising diagnostic tool in cystic fibrosis (15 April, 2021)
Senne Cuyx, Anabela Santo Ramalho, Nikky Corthout, Steffen Fieuws, Eva Fürstová, Kaline Arnauts, Marc Ferrante, Catherine Verfaillie, Sebastian Munck, Mieke Boon, Marijke Proesmans, Lieven Dupont, Kris De Boeck, François Vermeulen
Genetic polymorphism in ATIC is associated with effectiveness and toxicity of pemetrexed in non-small-cell lung cancer
(15 April, 2021)
Sabine Visser, Stijn Koolen, Nadine van Donk, Nico van Walree, Cor van der Leest, Robin Cornelissen, Ron van Schaik, Ron Mathijssen, Joachim Aerts, Bruno H Stricker

State of the art review

Use of preclinical models for malignant pleural mesothelioma (10 March, 2021)
Marie Shamseddin, Joanna Obacz, Mathew J Garnett, Robert Campbell Rintoul, Hayley Elizabeth Francies, Stefan John Marciniak

Case based discussion

Investigation and management of severe thrombocytopaenia in a patient with cavitating lung disease (24 June, 2021)
Aya M Abbas, Kate Brackenborough, Sarah Menzies, John Willan, Jasmine Ming Gan, Safoora Rehman

Images in Thorax

A rare cause of an 18F-FDG positron emission tomography-positive lung lesion: look for what was lost… (10 May, 2021)
Ellen Adams, Nico Mollet, Patrick Dewachter, Lynn Decoster

Journal club

Journal club (14 October, 2021) Free
Fred Fyles

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November 2021 - Volume 76 - 11

Airwaves

Editorials

Asthma

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Critical care

Non-invasive ventilation

Respiratory epidemiology

Sleep

Tuberculosis

Brief communications

State of the art review

Case based discussion

Images in Thorax

Journal club

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Table of contents

November 2021 - Volume 76 - 11

Airwaves

Editorials

Asthma

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Critical care

Non-invasive ventilation

Respiratory epidemiology

Sleep

Tuberculosis

Brief communications

State of the art review

Case based discussion

Images in Thorax

Journal club

Issue Information