EDITORIALS |
381 | Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis-related pulmonary hypertension; an exercising diagnosis? (Abstract)
Toby M Maher & Athol U Wells |
384 | Sarcoidosis: Lost in translation (Abstract)
Marc A Judson |
INVITED REVIEW SERIES: RESPIRATORY HEALTH ISSUES IN THE ASIA–PACIFIC REGION |
386 | Natural disasters and the lung (Abstract)
BRUCE ROBINSON, MOHAMMAD FAHMI ALATAS, ANDREW ROBERTSON & HENRY STEER |
INVITED REVIEW SERIES: CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGIES |
396 | Genome-wide association studies for discovery of genes involved in asthma (Abstract)
LOUBNA AKHABIR & ANDREW J SANDFORD |
407 | Applying gene expression microarrays to pulmonary disease (Abstract)
JOSHUA D CAMPBELL, AVRUM SPIRA & MARC E LENBURG |
INVITED REVIEW SERIES: PLEURAL DISEASE |
419 | Interventional radiology of pleural diseases (Abstract)
TAHREEMA N MATIN & FERGUS V GLEESON |
430 | Pathology of the pleura: What the pulmonologists need to know (Abstract)
PHILIP T CAGLE & TIMOTHY CRAIG ALLEN |
ORIGINAL ARTICLES |
439 | Heart rate recovery after six-minute walk test predicts pulmonary hypertension in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (Abstract)
JEFFREY J SWIGRIS, AMY L OLSON, OKSANA A SHLOBIN, SHAHZAD AHMAD, KEVIN K BROWN & STEVEN D NATHAN |
446 | Extrapulmonary involvement in patients with sarcoidosis in Turkey (Abstract)
GULFER OKUMUS, BENAN MUSELLIM, ERDOGAN CETINKAYA, HATICE TURKER, ESRA UZASLAN, ESIN YENTURK, OGUZ UZUN, LEYLA SAGLAM, OZLEM OZDEMIR KUMBASAR, GOKHAN CELIK, ALI NIHAT ANNAKKAYA, GUNDENIZ ALTIAY, LEVENT TABAK, AYSIN SAKAR, GOKSEL KITER, SERDAR ERTURAN, HALUK TURKTAS, ENVER YALNIZ, ATILLA AKKOCLU, CANDAN OGUS, OMER TAMER DOGAN, METIN OZKAN, SERIR AKTOGU, ISIL UZEL & GUL ONGEN |
451 | Exercise capacity in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: The effect of pulmonary hypertension (Abstract)
AFRODITI K BOUTOU, GEORGIA G PITSIOU, IOANNIS TRIGONIS, DESPINA PAPAKOSTA, PASCHALINA K KONTOU, NIKOLAOS CHAVOUZIS, CHRYSANTHI NAKOU, PARASKEVI ARGYROPOULOU, KARLMAN WASSERMAN & IOANNIS STANOPOULOS |
459 | Sputum zinc concentration & clinical outcome in older asthmatics (Abstract)
LATA JAYARAM, SANJEEV CHUNILAL, SANDY PICKERING, RICHARD E RUFFIN & PETER D ZALEWSKI |
467 | Combination of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration with standard bronchoscopic techniques for the diagnosis of stage I & stage II pulmonary sarcoidosis (Abstract)
NEAL NAVANI, HELEN L BOOTH, GABRIJELA KOCJAN, MARY FALZON, ARRIGO CAPITANIO, JAMES M BROWN, JOANNA C PORTER & SAM M JANES |
473 | Diagnostic accuracy of T-cell interferon- release assays in tuberculous pleurisy: A meta-analysis (Abstract)
QIONG ZHOU, YI-QIANG CHEN, SHOU-MING QIN, XIAO-NAN TAO, JIAN-BAO XIN & HUAN-ZHONG SHI |
481 | The value of computed tomography scanning for the detection of coronary artery disease in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (Abstract)
STEVEN D NATHAN, NARGUES WEIR, OKSANA A SHLOBIN, BRUCE A URBAN, CHARLENE A CURRY, ASHWIN BASAVARAJ, SHAHZAD AHMAD, JOSEPH KIERNAN, MICHAEL J SHERIDAN & JAMES P EARLS |
495 | Clinical usefulness of B-type natriuretic peptide in the diagnosis of pleural effusions due to heart failure (Abstract)
FELIPE C A MARINHO, FRANCISCO S VARGAS, JOSÉ FABRI JR, MILENA M P ACENCIO, EDUARDO H GENOFRE, LEILA ANTONANGELO, ROBERTA K B SALES and LISETE R TEIXEIRA |
500 | A novel single-chain-Fv antibody against connective tissue growth factor attenuates bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in mice (Abstract)
XIHUA WANG, GUOQIU WU, LIXIA GOU, ZHAOZHAO LIU, XIYONG WANG, XIAOBO FAN, LINYUAN WU & NAIFENG LIU |
508 | Cigarette smoke modulates PGE2 and host defence against Moraxella catarrhalis infection in human airway epithelial cells (Abstract)
WEIYUN ZHANG, STEPHANIE CASE, RUSSELL P BOWLER, RICHARD J MARTIN, DI JIANG & HONG WEI CHU |
517 | The origin of frequency dependence of respiratory resistance: An airflow simulation study using a 4D pulmonary lobule model (Abstract)
HIROKO KITAOKA |
523 | Regional ventilation distribution determined by electrical impedance tomography: Reproducibility and effects of posture and chest plane (Abstract)
FLORIAN REIFFERSCHEID, GUNNAR ELKE, SVEN PULLETZ, BARBARA GAWELCZYK, INGMAR LAUTENSCHLÄGER, MARKUS STEINFATH, NORBERT WEILER & INÉZ FRERICHS |
532 | A multicentre surveillance study on the characteristics, bacterial aetiologies and in vitro antibiotic susceptibilities in patients with acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis (Abstract)
DAVID S HUI, MARGARET IP, THOMAS LING, SHAN-CHWEN CHANG, CHUN-HSING LIAO, CHUL-GYU YOO, DEOG-KYEOM KIM, HO-IL YOON, VISIT UDOMPANICH, SOMKID MOGMEUD, RAZAK MUTTALIF, AZMI M SALLEH, CAMILO ROA, MYRNA MENDOZA, CONCEPCION FAJARDO-ANG, PRIYANTI SOEPANDI, FATHIYAH ISBANIAH, ERLINA BURHAN, PRATIWI SUDARMONO, HADIARTO MANGUNNEGORO & HANS H LIU |
YEAR IN REVIEW |
540 | Year-in-review 2010: Asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis and airway biology (Abstract)
HELEN K REDDEL, T K LIM, MICHIAKI MISHIMA, CLAIRE E WAINWRIGHT & DARRYL A KNIGHT |
553 | Year in review 2010: Interstitial lung diseases, acute lung injury, sleep, physiology, imaging, bronchoscopic intervention and lung cancer (Abstract)
PETER R EASTWOOD, KAZUHISA TAKAHASHI, PYNG LEE & TOBY M MAHER |
564 | Year in review 2010: Tuberculosis, pleural diseases, respiratory infections (Abstract)
CHI CHIU LEUNG, DAVID FELLER-KOPMAN, MICHAEL S NIEDERMAN & STEPHEN G SPIRO |
CORRESPONDENCE |
574 | Chronic bronchitis is not necessary to define COPD (Abstract)
Li-Cher Loh |