EDITORIAL |
1 | Severe pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza A infection: Are we ready to move on? (Abstract)
Diego López Mendoza & Marcos I Restrepo |
INVITED REVIEW SERIES: RESPIRATORY HEALTH ISSUES IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION |
3 | Respiratory health issues in the Asia–Pacific region: An overview (Abstract)
Euzebiusz JAMROZIK & Arthur William MUSK |
13 | Targeted therapy: An evolving world of lung cancer (Abstract)
Kwok-Chi LAM & Tony S MOK |
INVITED REVIEW SERIES: CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGIES |
22 | Minimally invasive imaging method based on second harmonic generation and multiphoton excitation fluorescence in translational respiratory research (Abstract)
Thomas ABRAHAM, Samuel WADSWORTH, Jon M CARTHY, Dmitri V PECHKOVSKY & Bruce McMANUS |
34 | Phenotyping airway disease with optical coherence tomography (Abstract)
Harvey O COXSON, Peter R EASTWOOD, Jonathan P WILLIAMSON & Don D SIN |
INVITED REVIEW SERIES: PLEURAL DISEASE |
44 | Pearls and myths in pleural fluid analysis (Abstract)
José M PORCEL |
53 | Translational advances in pleural malignancies (Abstract)
Georgios T STATHOPOULOS |
INVITED REVIEW SERIES: HOW TO SET UP PULMONARY SUBSPECIALTY SERVICES |
64 | Setting up a respiratory trials unit (Abstract)
Najib M RAHMAN, Melissa DOBSON & Robert J O DAVIES |
REVIEW |
69 | Pulmonary hypertension in sarcoidosis: A review (Abstract)
Tamera J CORTE, Athol U WELLS, Andrew G NICHOLSON, David M HANSELL & Stephen J WORT |
ORIGINAL ARTICLES |
78 | Severe pandemic (H1N1)v influenza A infection: Report on the first deaths in Spain (Abstract)
Ignacio MARTIN-LOECHES, Alejandro RODRIGUEZ, Juan BONASTRE, Rafael ZARAGOZA, Rafael SIERRA, Asunción MARQUES, Jose JULIÁ-NARVAEZ, Emili DIAZ & Jordi RELLO, The H1N1 SEMICYUC Working Group |
86 | Tracheal aspirate Gram stain has limited sensitivity and specificity for detecting Staphylococcus aureus (Abstract)
Sodienye TETENTA & Mark L METERSKY |
90 | Comparison of 21-gauge and 22-gauge aspiration needle during endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (Abstract)
Takahiro NAKAJIMA, Kazuhiro YASUFUKU, Ryo TAKAHASHI, Masato SHINGYOJI, Tetsushi HIRATA, Makiko ITAMI, Yukiko MATSUI, Meiji ITAKURA, Toshihiko IIZASA & Hideki KIMURA |
95 | Effects of adding salmeterol/fluticasone propionate to tiotropium on airway dimensions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Abstract)
Makoto HOSHINO & Junichi OHTAWA |
102 | Pilot randomized study comparing two techniques of airway anaesthesia during curvilinear probe endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscopy (CP-EBUS) (Abstract)
Hans J LEE, Andrew R HAAS, Daniel H STERMAN, Randy SOLLY, Anil VACHANI & Colin T GILLESPIE |
107 | Association between the tumour necrosis factor-α-308G/A polymorphism and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: An update (Abstract)
Shihua ZHANG, Chunyu WANG, Bo XI & Xia LI |
116 | Changes in respiratory disorder parameters during the night in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (Abstract)
Taeko SASAI, Yuichi INOUE, Akira MATSUO, Masato MATSUURA & Eisuke MATSUSHIMA |
124 | Immunohistochemical staining for transcription factor MafB in alveolar macrophages is correlated with spirometric measures of airflow limitation in smokers (Abstract)
Michiko SATO, Yoko SHIBATA, Tomomi KIMURA, Keiko YAMAUCHI, Shuichi ABE, Sumito INOUE, Hiroyuki KISHI, Hiroyuki OIZUMI & Isao KUBOTA |
131 | Single photon emission computed tomography in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (Abstract)
Xavier SOLER, Carl K HOH, Victor J TEST, Kim M KERR, James J MARSH & Timothy A MORRIS |
138 | Biomarkers of lung injury after one-lung ventilation for lung resection (Abstract)
Anthony J BASTIN, Hiroe SATO, Simon J DAVIDSON, Gregory J QUINLAN & Mark J GRIFFITHS |
146 | Predicting early mortality in acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using the CURB65 score (Abstract)
Catherina L CHANG, Glenda D SULLIVAN, Noel C KARALUS, Graham D MILLS, John D MCLACHLAN & Robert J HANCOX |
152 | Comparison of Fcϒ receptor expression on neutrophils with procalcitonin for the diagnosis of sepsis in critically ill patients (Abstract)
Kuo-Hsuan HSU, Ming-Chen CHAN, Jiunn-Min WANG, Liang-Yi LIN & Chieh-Liang WU |
161 | Sodium cromoglycate and eformoterol attenuate sensitivity and reactivity to inhaled mannitol in subjects with bronchiectasis (Abstract)
Peter J BRIFFA, Sandra D ANDERSON, Deborah L BURTON & Iven H YOUNG |
167 | Long-term outcomes from bronchoscopic lung volume reduction using a bronchial prosthesis (Abstract)
Sakhee KOTECHA, Glen P WESTALL, Lynda HOLSWORTH, Alan PHAM, Trevor J WILLIAMS & Greg I SNELL |
174 | Impulse oscillometry in preschool children and association with body mass index (Abstract)
Hermann KALHOFF, Renate BREIDENBACH, Hans-Juergen SMITH & Wolfgang MAREK |
CLINICAL NOTE |
180 | Difficult asthma and Churg-Strauss-like syndrome: A cautionary tale (Abstract)
Edmund M T LAU, Wendy COOPER, Peter T BYE & Kwok YAN |