FORTHCOMING MEETINGS |
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EDITORIAL |
137 | Phil Thompson
Editor-in-Chief |
REVIEW ARTICLES |
138 | Thoracic embolotherapy for life-threatening haemoptysis: A pulmonologist's perspective
Anne AL HSU |
144 | Management of tuberculous pleuritis: Can we do better?
Poon-Chuen WONG |
ORIGINAL ARTICLES |
149 | Augmentation of allergic inflammation in the airways of cyclooxygenase-2-deficient mice
Junko NAKATA, Mitsuko KONDO, Jun TAMAOKI, Takako TAKEMIYA, Michiko NOHARA, Kanato YAMAGATA, Atsushi NAGAI |
157 | The effect of N-acetylcysteine on Clara cells and Clara cell 16 kDa protein in a murine model of allergen-induced airway inflammation
Xiaomeng NIE, Qiang LI, Gang CAI, Yimin DAI, Jun ZHANG |
164 | Metabolic activity in skeletal muscles of patients with non-hypoxaemic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease studied by 31P-magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Tomoko HAMAOKA, Koichiro TATSUMI, Yoshiichito SAITO, Yasuhiro ARAI, Yoshimasa HORIE, Shigeru MASUYAMA, Nobuhiro TANABE, Yuichi TAKIGUCHI, Hiroo IKEHIRA, Takayuki OBATA, Yasuhito SASAKI, Syuzi TANADA, Takayuki KURIYAMA |
171 | Zidovudine-induced diaphragmatic contractile dysfunction: Impact of an antioxidant diet
Sara WHEELER, Anya MAXWELL-BAWDEN, Robert A HERB, Gail E GALLAGHER, J Richard COAST |
177 | Nasal wash as an alternative to bronchoalveolar lavage in detecting early pulmonary inflammation in children with cystic fibrosis
PMC PITREZ, S BRENNAN, S TURNER, PD SLY |
183 | Fluticasone given once versus twice a day: Meta-analysis
Matthew MASOLI, Mark WEATHERALL, Richard BEASLEY |
189 | Comparison of inhaled corticosteroid combined with theophylline and double-dose inhaled corticosteroid in moderate to severe asthma
Yan WANG, Chang-Zheng WANG, Ke-Xiong LIN, Gui-Sheng QIAN, Wen-Lei ZHUO, Shu-Ping LI, Zhi-Qiang ZHAO, Xiu-Qing LIAO, Yun-Xi SONG |
201 | Importance of atopic cough, cough variant asthma and sinobronchial syndrome as causes of chronic cough in the Hokuriku area of Japan
Masaki FUJIMURA, Miki ABO, Haruhiko OGAWA, Kouichi NISHI, Yoshinori KIBE, Tatsuki HIROSE, Yasuto NAKATSUMI, Keiichi IWASA |
208 | Usefulness of the Japanese Respiratory Society guidelines for community pneumonia: a retrospective analysis of community-acquired pneumonia between 2000 and 2002 in a general hospital
Kazushi MOTOMURA, Hironori MASAKI, Mayumi TERADA, Tomoko ONIZUKA, Akitsugu FURUMOTO, Norichika ASOH, Kazunori OISHI, Tsuyoshi NAGATAKE |
223 | α1-Antitrypsin genotypes in Korean patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Cheol Hyeon KIM, Jae-Joon YIM, Chul-Gyu YOO, Choon-Taek LEE, Young Whan KIM, Sung Koo HAN, YoungSoo SHIM |
229 | An interesting cause of recurrent haemoptysis: Haemoptysis 7 years after a foreign body penetrated the lung parenchyma and aorta
Ahmet S YURDAKUL, Nevin T HOCA, Atila GOKCEK, Filiz CIMEN, Aslihan CAKALOLU, Sukran ATIKCAN |
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS |
233 | Smoking reduction does work: Resulting alterations in the incidence and histological subtypes of lung cancer in New South Wales in the last 20 years
AM JOSHUA, MJ BOYER, R SUBRAMANIAN, SJ CLARKE |
239 | The effect of a post acute respiratory outreach service for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on hospital readmission rates
Kimberley J JEFFS, Wen K LIM, Michael LIM, David J BERLOWITZ, Bruce JACKSON |
244 | Prevalence of asthma, eczema and allergic rhinitis: Two surveys, 6 years apart, in Kota Bharu, Malaysia
BS QUAH, I WAN-PAUZI, N ARIFFIN, AR MAZIDAH |
CASE REPORTS |
250 | A case report of congenital isolated absence of the right pulmonary artery: bronchofibrescopic findings and chest radiological tracings over 9 years
Satoshi MIMURA, Hideo KOBAYASHI, Masaharu SHINKAI, Soichiro KANOH, Kazuo MOTOYOSHI |
254 | Clinical presentation of metabolic alkalosis in an adult patient with cystic fibrosis
Lisel J SWEETSER, James A DOUGLAS, Renata L RIHA, Scott C BELL |
257 | Tuberculous peritonitis developing during chemotherapy for pulmonary and intestinal tuberculosis: A case report
Kei KASAHARA, Atsuhiko FUKUOKA, Koichi MURAKAWA, Hideo OKAMURA, Keiichi MIKASA, Nobuhiro Narita, Hiroshi KIMURA |
261 | Pulmonary anisakiasis presenting as eosinophilic pleural effusion
Wakana SAITO, Kenji KAWAKAMI, Reiki KUROKI, Hidenori MATSUO, Kazunori OISHI, Tsuyoshi NAGATAKE |