EDITORIALS |
1 | Respiratory health issues in the Asia-Pacific region: An epilogue (Abstract)
Mary SM Ip, Yoshinosuke Fukuchi & Norbert Berend |
3 | Chest MRI in children: Why bother? (Abstract)
Amir M Owrangi & Grace Parraga |
5 | Using computed tomography to measure the site of airflow obstruction(Abstract)
Harvey O Coxson |
INVITED REVIEW SERIES: AIR POLLUTION AND LUNG HEALTH |
7 | Monitoring air pollution: Use of early warning systems for public health (Abstract)
FRANK J KELLY, GARY W FULLER, HEATHER A WALTON & JULIA C FUSSELL |
20 | Biomass fuels and lung cancer (Abstract)
WEI-YEN LIM & ADELINE SEOW |
INVITED REVIEW SERIES: OBESITY AND RESPIRATORY DISORDERS |
32 | Obesity and obstructive sleep apnoea: Mechanisms for increased collapsibility of the passive pharyngeal airway (Abstract)
SHIROH ISONO |
43 | Impact of obesity on respiratory function (Abstract)
STEPHEN W LITTLETON |
INVITED REVIEW SERIES: TRANSLATING RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE |
50 | Pulmonary adenocarcinoma: A renewed entity in 2011 (Abstract)
HUMAM KADARA, MOHAMED KABBOUT & IGNACIO I WISTUBA |
INVITED REVIEW SERIES: RESPIRATORY HEALTH ISSUES IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION |
66 | Radiation damage to the lung: Mitigation by angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors (Abstract)
MEETHA MEDHORA, FENG GAO, ELIZABETH R JACOBS & JOHN E MOULDER |
INVITED REVIEW |
72 | Advance care planning in COPD (Abstract)
KEVIN PATEL, DAISY J A JANSSEN & J RANDALL CURTIS |
ORIGINAL ARTICLES |
79 | Airway dimensions and pulmonary function in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchial asthma (Abstract)
KAZUYOSHI KURASHIMA, TOSHIKO HOSHI, NOBORU TAKAYANAGI, YOTARO TAKAKU, NAHO KAGIYAMA, CHIE OHTA, MASAKI FUJIMURA & YUTAKA SUGITA |
87 | Magnetic resonance imaging is an accurate and reliable method to evaluate non-cystic fibrosis paediatric lung disease (Abstract)
SILVIA MONTELLA, MARCO MAGLIONE, DARIO BRUZZESE, CARMINE MOLLICA, CLAUDIO PIGNATA, GIUSEPPINA ALOJ, ANGELO MANNA, ANTONIETTA ESPOSITO, VIRGINIA MIRRA & FRANCESCA SANTAMARIA |
92 | When pleural potassium exceeds 5.0 mEq/L, high pleural adenosine deaminase levels do not necessarily indicate tuberculous pleuritis (Abstract)
KOSUKE KASHIWABARA, TOMOHISA OKAMOTO & HIROMI YAMANE |
99 | Phenotypes of patients with mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnoea as confirmed by cluster analysis (Abstract)
SIMON A JOOSTEN, KAIS HAMZA, SCOTT SANDS, ANTHONY TURTON, PHILIP BERGER & GARUN HAMILTON |
108 | Weakness of expiratory muscles and pulmonary complications in malnourished patients undergoing upper abdominal surgery (Abstract)
ADRIANA C LUNARDI, CAMILA S MIRANDA, KAROLINE M SILVA, IVAN CECCONELLO & CELSO R F CARVALHO |
114 | Pleural fluid nucleic acid testing enhances pneumococcal surveillance in children (Abstract)
ROXANNE E STRACHAN, ANITA CORNELIUS, GWENDOLYN L GILBERT, TANYA GULLIVER, ANDREW MARTIN, TIM MCDONALD, GILLIAN NIXON, ROB ROSEBY, SARATH RANGANATHAN, HIRAN SELVADURAI, GREG SMITH, MANUEL SOTO-MARTINEZ, SADASIVAM SURESH, LAUREL TEOH, KIRAN THAPA, CLAIRE E WAINWRIGHT & ADAM JAFFÉ |
120 | Economic burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Abstract)
W-S KELVIN TEO, WOAN-SHIN TAN, WAI-FUNG CHONG, JOHN ABISHEGANADEN, YII-JEN LEW, TOW-KEANG LIM & BEE-HOON HENG |
127 | Disease-free survival of patients after surgical resection of non-small cell lung carcinoma and correlation with excision repair cross-complementation group 1 expression and genotype (Abstract)
MANALJAV TSEDEN-ISH, YOO-DUK CHOI, HYUN-JU CHO, HEE-JUNG BAN, IN-JAE OH, KYU-SIK KIM, SANG-YUN SONG, KOOK-JOO NA, SUNG-JA AHN, SONG CHOI & YOUNG-CHUL KIM |
134 | Factors associated with long-term survival of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (Abstract)
ETIENNE GIROUX LEPRIEUR, ARMELLE LAVOLE, ANNE-MARIE RUPPERT, VALéRIE GOUNANT, MARIE WISLEZ, JACQUES CADRANEL & BERNARD MILLERON |
143 | Effect of dust storm events on daily emergency admissions for respiratory diseases (Abstract)
WILSON W S TAM, TZE WAI WONG, ANDROMEDA H S WONG & DAVID S C HUI |
149 | Effects of oxygen on exertional dyspnoea and exercise performance in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Abstract)
KEISUKE MIKI, RYOJI MAEKURA, TORU HIRAGA, SEIGO KITADA, MARI MIKI, KENJI YOSHIMURA & YOSHITAKA TATEISHI |
155 | Increased natural killer T-like cells are a major source of pro-inflammatory cytokines and granzymes in lung transplant recipients (Abstract)
GREG HODGE, SANDRA HODGE, CHIEN LI-LIEW, PAUL N REYNOLDS & MARK HOLMES |
164 | A NOD2 gene polymorphism is associated with the prevalence and severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a Japanese population (Abstract)
DAISUKE KINOSE, EMIKO OGAWA, TOMOMITSU HIROTA, ISAO ITO, MEGUMI KUDO, AKANE HARUNA, SATOSHI MARUMO, YUMA HOSHINO, SHIGEO MURO, TOYOHIRO HIRAI, HIROAKI SAKAI, HIROSHI DATE, MAYUMI TAMARI & MICHIAKI MISHIMA |
172 | Prescription of antibiotics for adults hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia in Korea in 2004: A population-based descriptive study (Abstract)
YOUNG KYUNG YOON, EUN JU KIM, BYUNG CHUL CHUN, JOONG SIK EOM, DAE WON PARK, JANG WOOK SOHN & MIN JA KIM |
180 | Pilot study comparing SPECT perfusion scintigraphy with CT pulmonary angiography in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (Abstract)
XAVIER SOLER, KIM M KERR, JAMES J MARSH, JOHN W RENNER, CARL K HOH, VICTOR J TEST & TIMOTHY A MORRIS |
185 | Increased risk of nontuberculous mycobacterial infection in asthmatic patients using long-term inhaled corticosteroid therapy (Abstract)
MASAYUKI HOJO, MOTOYASU IIKURA, SATOSHI HIRANO, HARUHITO SUGIYAMA, NOBUYUKI KOBAYASHI & KOICHIRO KUDO |
CORRESPONDENCE |
191 | P2X7 A1513 polymorphisms and tuberculosis susceptibility (Abstract)
Justin T Denholm & Emma S McBryde |
191 | Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and genetic association study (Abstract)
Xiwen Wang, Qingyi Liu & Qing Chen |
CORRIGENDUM |
192 | (Abstract) |
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS |
193 | (Abstract) |
JOURNAL STATISTICS |
193 | (Abstract) |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
194 | (Abstract) |
FUKUCHI AWARD |
196 | (Abstract) |