EDITORIALS |
1 | Asthma management in the Asia-Pacific region (Abstract)
Lutz Beckert & Angela Moran |
3 | Does pressure affect performance? Continuous positive airway pressure for sleep-disordered breathing in heart failure (Abstract)
Garun S Hamilton, Bradley A Edwards & Scott A Sands |
SERIES EDITORIAL |
5 | Reflection of stem cell therapy: An epilogue to the 'Stem cells and the lung' review series (Abstract)
Yuben Moodley & Philip Thompson |
INVITED REVIEW SERIES |
9 | Modern statistical methods in respiratory medicine (Abstract)
Rory Wolfe & Michael J Abramson |
14 | Interpretation of commonly used statistical regression models (Abstract)
Jessica Kasza & Rory Wolfe |
REVIEWS |
22 | Lack of efficacy of neuromuscular electrical stimulation of the lower limbs in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients: A meta-analysis (Abstract)
Lei Pan, YongZhong Guo, Xunchao Liu & Junhong Yan |
30 | Reporting of exercise attendance rates for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A systematic review (Abstract)
Marie T Williams, Lucy K Lewis, Zoe McKeough, Anne E Holland, Annemarie Lee, Renae McNamara, Anna Phillips, Louise Wiles, Leona Knapman, Sally Wootton, Maree Milross & Tanja Effing |
CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES |
38 | Clinical use of pulse oximetry: Official guidelines from the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (Abstract)
Jeffrey J Pretto, Teanau Roebuck, Lutz Beckert & Garun Hamilton |
ORIGINAL ARTICLES |
47 | Acute haemodynamic effects of continuous positive airway pressure in awake patients with heart failure (Abstract)
Stephan Schroll, Frédéric Sériès, Keir Lewis, Amit Benjamin, Pierre Escourrou, Ruth Luigart, Michael Pfeifer & Michael Arzt |
53 | Lung function and plasma fibrinogen concentrations in the Newcastle Thousand Families birth cohort between age 49 and 51 years (Abstract)
Mark S Pearce, Robert J Hancox, Louise Parker & G John Gibson |
58 | Variability and consistency in lung inflammatory responses to particles with a geogenic origin (Abstract)
Graeme R Zosky, Catherine E Boylen, Russell S Wong, Michael N Smirk, Lucia Gutiérrez, Robert C Woodward, W Shan Siah, Brian Devine, Fiona Maley & Angus Cook |
67 | Interaction of cyclic mechanical stretch and toll-like receptor 4-mediated innate immunity in rat alveolar type II cells (Abstract)
Hartmut Kuhn, Katja Petzold, Stefan Hammerschmidt & Hubert Wirtz |
74 | Monitoring oxidative stress during chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations using malondialdehyde (Abstract)
Balazs Antus, Gabriella Harnasi, Orsolya Drozdovszky & Imre Barta |
80 | Polysomnographic evaluation of non-invasive ventilation in children with neuromuscular disease (Abstract)
Raffaele Falsaperla, Anette Wenzel, Piero Pavone, Caterina Di Mauro & Giovanna Vitaliti |
85 | An overview of service quality of continuous positive airway pressure services in Australian pharmacies (Abstract)
Carissa A Hanes, Keith K H Wong & Bandana Saini |
92 | Mesenteric fat thickness is associated with increased risk of obstructive sleep apnoea (Abstract)
Kin Hung Liu, Winnie C W Chu, Kin Wang To, Fanny W S Ko, Susanna S S Ng, Jenny C L Ngai, Jeff Wai Sang Chan, Anil T Ahuja & David S C Hui |
98 | Detection of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in community-based annual lung cancer screening: Chiba Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Lung Cancer Screening Study Group (Abstract)
Yasuo Sekine, Takehiko Fujisawa, Kiminori Suzuki, Shuko Tsutatani, Kazuko Kubota, Hiroshi Ikegami, Yuji Isobe, Mitsugu Nakamura, Yuichi Takiguchi & Koichiro Tatsumi |
105 | Comparison of performance status with peak oxygen consumption in operable patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (Abstract)
Michael A Roman, Graeme J Koelwyn, Neil D Eves, Whitney E Hornsby, Dorothy Watson, James E Herndon II, Leslie Kohman, Gregory Loewen & Lee W Jones |
109 | Aminopeptidase N facilitates entry & intracellular survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in monocytes (Abstract)
Hsin-Tsung Ho, I-Fang Tsai, Chien-Liang Wu & Yen-Ta Lu |
116 | Association of hospitalizations for asthma with seasonal & pandemic influenza (Abstract)
Alicia K Gerke, Ming Yang, Fan Tang, Eric D Foster, Joseph E Cavanaugh & Philip M Polgreen |
122 | Der p2 recombinant bacille Calmette-Guerin priming of bone marrow-derived dendritic cells suppresses Der p2-induced T helper17 function in a mouse model of asthma (Abstract)
Shuo-Yao Qu, Hai-Feng Ou-yang, Ya-Long He, Zhi-Kui Li, Jie-Ran Shi, Li-Qiang Song & Chang-Gui Wu |
132 | Evaluation of the performance of the microscopic observation drug susceptibility assay for diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in China: A preliminary study (Abstract)
Zikun Huang, Guoliang Xiong, Qing Luo, Bixia Jiang, Weitin Li, Xiaomeng Xu & Junming Li |
138 | Quadriceps strength and endurance in fibrotic idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (Abstract)
Laura Mendoza, Athena Gogali, Dinesh Shrikrishna, Gabriel Cavada, Samuel V Kemp, Samantha A Natanek, Abigail S Jackson, Michael I Polkey, Athol U Wells & Nicholas S Hopkinson |
SCIENTIFIC LETTER |
144 | Chest computed tomography for the diagnosis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection (Abstract)
Naoyuki Miyashita, Hiroto Akaike, Hideto Teranishi, Takashi Nakano, Kazunobu Ouchi & Niro Okimoto |
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS |
146 | Forthcoming Meetings (Abstract) |
JOURNAL STATISTICS |
146 | Journal Statistics (Abstract) |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
147 | Acknowledgements (Abstract) |