EDITORIALS |
577 | Vitamin D: Stronger lungs as well as stronger bones? (Abstract)
Samuel M Brown & Grant W Waterer |
579 | Preventing hospitalizations for COPD exacerbation: Early pulmonary rehabilitation? (Abstract)
Jean Bourbeau |
INVITED REVIEW SERIES: RESPIRATORY HEALTH ISSUES IN THE ASIA–PACIFIC REGION |
581 | Genetic predisposition to diffuse panbronchiolitis (Abstract)
NAOTO KEICHO & MINAKO HIJIKATA |
INVITED REVIEW SERIES: CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGIES |
589 | Insights into asthmatic airway remodelling through murine models (Abstract)
SABA AL HEIALY, TOBY K MCGOVERN & JAMES G MARTIN |
INVITED REVIEW SERIES: PLEURAL DISEASE |
598 | Pleural infection: Changing bacteriology and its implications (Abstract)
THIAGO LISBOA, GRANT W WATERER & Y C GARY LEE |
604 | Pleural controversy: Aetiology of pneumothorax (Abstract)
DEMONDES HAYNES & MICHAEL H BAUMANN |
ORIGINAL ARTICLES |
611 | Vitamin D, innate immunity and outcomes in community acquired pneumonia (Abstract)
LEONG LEOW, TALIA SIMPSON, RAY CURSONS, NOEL KARALUS & ROBERT J HANCOX |
617 | Effect of early pulmonary rehabilitation on health care utilization and health status in patients hospitalized with acute exacerbations of COPD (Abstract)
FANNY W S KO, DAVID L K DAI, JENNY NGAI, ALVIN TUNG, SUSANNA NG, KENNETH LAI, RICKY FONG, HERMAN LAU, WILSON TAM & DAVID S C HUI |
625 | The value of the CRB65 score to predict mortality in exacerbations of COPD requiring hospital admission (Abstract)
LLIFON EDWARDS, KYLE PERRIN, MEME WIJESINGHE, MARK WEATHERALL, RICHARD BEASLEY & JUSTIN TRAVERS |
630 | Association of 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin) receptor 4 (5-HTR4) gene polymorphisms with asthma (Abstract)
AE-HOON KIM, SUNG-HYE AN, JI-YEON CHA, EUN-KYONG SHIN, JI-YEON LEE, SANG-HYUK YOON, YOUNG-MOK LEE, SOO-TAEK UH, SUNG-WOO PARK, JONG-SOOK PARK, YOUNG-HOON KIM, JAE-SUNG CHOI, SOO-OK LEE, BYUNG-LAE PARK, HYUNG-DOO SHIN & CHOON-SIK PARK |
639 | Usage of spacers in respiratory laboratories and the delivered salbutamol dose of spacers available in Australia and New Zealand (Abstract)
GRAHAM L HALL, TERESA ANNESE, KEVIN LOOI & SUNALENE G DEVADASON |
645 | Cough reflex sensitivity and airway inflammation in patients with chronic cough due to non-acid gastro-oesophageal reflux (Abstract)
ZHIHONG QIU, LI YU, SHUCHANG XU, BO LIU, TING ZHAO, HANJING LÜ & ZHONGMIN QIU |
653 | Carbon monoxide pollution and lung function in urban compared with rural Mongolian children (Abstract)
BAIGALMAA DASHDENDEV, LYNN K FUKUSHIMA, MARLYN S WOO, ERDENETUYA GANBAATAR & DAVID WARBURTON |
659 | Prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Korea: The fourth Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2008 (Abstract)
KWANG H YOO, YOUNG S KIM, SEUNG S SHEEN, JOO H PARK, YONG I HWANG, SANG-HA KIM, HO I YOON, SUNG C LIM, JAE Y PARK, SEOUNG J PARK, KI H SEO, KI U KIM, YEON-MOK OH, NA Y LEE, JI S KIM, KYUNG W OH, YOUNG T KIM, IN-WON PARK, SANG-DO LEE, SE K KIM, YOUNG K KIM & SUNG K HAN |
666 | Use of specific airway resistance to assess bronchodilator response in children (Abstract)
BRUNO MAHUT, CLAUDINE PEIFFER, PLAMEN BOKOV, CHRISTOPHE DELCLAUX & NICOLE BEYDON |
672 | Efficacy and comfort of volume-guaranteed pressure support in patients with chronic ventilatory failure of neuromuscular origin (Abstract)
GRAZIA CRESCIMANNO, ORESTE MARRONE & ANDREAW VIANELLO |
680 | Impaired endothelial progenitor cell mobilization and colony-forming capacity in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Abstract)
TORU TAKAHASHI, SATOSHI SUZUKI, HIROSHI KUBO, MUTSUO YAMAYA, SHIN KUROSAWA & MASATO KATO |
688 | Relationship between asthma control status, the Asthma Control Test™ and urgent health-care utilization in Asia (Abstract)
CHRISTOPHER K W LAI, FANNY W S KO, ARVIND BHOME, TERESITA S DE GUIA, GARY W K WONG, BIN M Z ZAINUDIN, AN N NANG, WATCHARA BOONSAWAT, SANG H CHO, KIRTHI D GUNASEKERA, JIAN G HONG, JENG-YUAN HSU, NHUNG N VIET, FAISAL YUNUS & AMARTYA MUKHOPADHYAY |
698 | Assessment and learning curve evaluation of endobronchial ultrasound skills following simulation and clinical training (Abstract)
DAVID R STATHER, PAUL MACEACHERN, KAREN RIMMER, CHRISTOPHER A HERGOTT & ALAIN TREMBLAY |
705 | EMMPRIN (CD147) regulation of MMP-9 in bronchial epithelial cells in COPD (Abstract)
STEPHANE JOUNEAU, NADIA KHORASANI, PATRICIA DE SOUZA, PATRICIA MACEDO, JIE ZHU, PANKAJ K BHAVSAR & KIAN F CHUNG |
713 | Prognostic value of dual-time-point 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis (Abstract)
YUKIHIRO UMEDA, YOSHIKI DEMURA, MIWA MORIKAWA, SHINGO AMESHIMA, TATSURO TSUCHIDA, YASUHISA FUJIBAYASHI, HIDEHIKO OKAZAWA & TAKESHI ISHIZAKI |