FORTHCOMING MEETINGS |
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EDITORIAL |
135 | Phil Thompson
Editor-in-Chief |
INVITED REVIEW: PRESIDENT's LECTURE |
136 | Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: Translating science to clinical practice
Walter T McNICHOLAS, Silke RYAN |
ORIGINAL ARTICLES |
145 | Increased endothelin-1 levels of BAL fluid in patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis
Kyoko TERASHITA, Shuichi KATO, Makoto SATA, Sumito INOUE, Hidenori NAKAMURA, Hitonobu TOMOIKE |
152 | Asthma severity is associated with an increase in both blood CXCR3+ and CCR4+ T cells
Kazuyoshi KURASHIMA, Masaki FUJIMURA, Shigeharu MYOU, Yoshihisa ISHIURA, Nobuyuki ONAI, Kouji MATSUSHIMA |
158 | Increased plasma monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 level in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension
Takefumi ITOH, Noritoshi NAGAYA, Hatsue ISHIBASHI-UEDA, Shingo KYOTANI, Hideo OYA, Fumio SAKAMAKI, Hiroshi KIMURA, Norifumi NAKANISHI |
164 | Prognostic value of circulating KL-6 in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Akihito YOKOYAMA, Keiichi KONDO, Masamitsu NAKAJIMA, Toshiharu MATSUSHIMA, Toru TAKAHASHI, Masaharu NISHIMURA, Masashi BANDO, Yukihiko SUGIYAMA, Yoshitaka TOTANI, Takeshi ISHIZAKI, Hidenori ICHIYASU, Moritaka SUGA, Hironobu HAMADA, Nobuoki KOHNO |
169 | Serum retinoic acid, retinol and retinyl palmitate levels in patients with lung cancer
Anargyros N MOULAS, Irini C GEROGIANNI, Dimitrios PAPADOPOULOS, Konstantinos I GOURGOULIANIS |
175 | Oxygen cost of ventilation during incremental exercise to VO2 max
Chantal A VELLA, Derek MARKS, Robert A ROBERGS |
182 | Mechanisms by which systemic salbutamol increases ventilation
Antony E TOBIN, Anne-Marie PELLIZZER, John D SANTAMARIA |
188 | Frequent hospital readmissions for acute exacerbation of COPD and their associated factors
Zhenying CAO, Kian Chung ONG, Philip ENG, Wan Cheng TAN, Tze Pin NG |
196 | Performance of standard severity scoring systems for outcome prediction in patients admitted to a respiratory intensive care unit in North India
Ashutosh N AGGARWAL, Pralay SARKAR, Dheeraj GUPTA, Surinder K JINDAL |
205 | Emphysema detected by lung cancer screening with low-dose spiral CT: Prevalence, and correlation with smoking habits and pulmonary function in Japanese male subjects
Hisamitsu OMORI, Rumi NAKASHIMA, Nobuko OTSUKA, Yoshiko MISHIMA, Seigi TOMIGUCHI, Akiko NARIMATSU, Yoshio NONAMI, Shuichi MIHARA, Wasaku KOYAMA, Tohru MARUBAYASHI, Yasuo MORIMOTO |
211 | Six-minute walk distance in healthy Singaporean adults cannot be predicted using reference equations derived from Caucasian populations
Hermione POH, Peter R EASTWOOD, Nola M CECINS, Kheng Thye HO, Sue C JENKINS |
CASE REPORTS |
217 | Gefitinib-induced interstitial lung disease showing improvement after cessation: Disassociation of serum markers
Hiroko KITAJIMA, Hiroki TAKAHASHI, Kazutoki HARADA, Akiko KANAI, Shin-Ichiro INOMATA, Haruko TANIGUCHI, Toyohiro SAIKAI, Shosaku ABE |
221 | Pulmonary endometriosis resected by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
Yong Bum PARK, Gyeong Mi HEO, Han Kok MOON, Seong Jin CHO, Yoon Cheol SHIN, Kwang-Seok EOM, Cheol Hong KIM, Jae Young LEE, Eun Kyung MO, Ki-Suck JUNG |
224 | Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma presenting as a unilateral solitary round pulmonary hilar node infarction
Kan YONEMORI, Masahiko KUSUMOTO, Yoshihiro MATSUNO, Ukihide TATEISHI, Shun-Ichi WATANABE, Takashi WATANABE, Noriyuki MORIYAMA |
LETTER TO THE EDITOR |
227 | Microscopic polyangiitis or Wegener's granulomatosis? That is the question
Ritesh AGARWAL |
CORRIGENDUM |
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