EDITORIALS |
6 | When the wind blows: The changing role for the airborne particulate matter in respiratory disease
David Smart |
8 | Healthcare-associated pneumonia: Can we salvage anything from the wreckage?
Grant W Waterer |
10 | Do anti-viral neutrophil responses exacerbate lung inflammation in asthma?
Ross Vlahos & Steven Bozinovski |
SERIES EDITORIAL-PROLOGUE |
12 | Unravelling the many faces of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A hitchhiker's guide to COPD
Gregory G King & Don D Sin |
INVITED REVIEW SERIES |
Unravelling the Many Faces of COPD to Optimize Its Care and Outcomes |
14 | Global burden of COPD
Jose Luis López-Campos, Wan Tan & Joan B Soriano |
24 | Biomarkers, the control panel and personalized COPD medicine
Alvar Agusti, Joaquim Gea & Rosa Faner |
34 | Natural history of COPD: Focusing on change in FEV1
Jørgen Vestbo & Peter Lange |
Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia |
44 | Invasive diagnostic techniques in idiopathic interstitial pneumonias
Venerino Poletti, Claudia Ravaglia, Carlo Gurioli, Sara Piciucchi, Alessandra Dubini, Alberto Cavazza, Marco Chilosi, Andrea Rossi & Sara Tomassetti |
51 | Unclassifiable interstitial lung disease: A review
Kate Skolnik & Christopher J Ryerson |
57 | Smoking-related idiopathic interstitial pneumonia: A review
George A Margaritopoulos, Sergio Harari, Antonella Caminati & Katerina M Antoniou |
REVIEW |
65 | Polymicrobial community-acquired pneumonia: An emerging entity
Catia Cillóniz, Rok Civljak, Antonello Nicolini & Antoni Torres |
CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES |
76 | Clinical Practice Guideline on Adult Domiciliary Oxygen Therapy: Executive summary from the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand
Christine F McDonald, Ken Whyte, Sue Jenkins, John Serginson & Peter Frith |
ORIGINAL ARTICLES |
Asthma & Allergy |
79 | High levels of physical activity are associated with poorer asthma control in young females but not in males
Ludvig Lövström, Margareta Emtner, Kjell Alving, Lennart Nordvall, Magnus P Borres, Christer Janson & Andrei Malinovschi |
88 |
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure during a prolonged wildfire period and emergency department visits for asthma
Anjali Haikerwal, Muhammad Akram, Malcolm R Sim, Mick Meyer, Michael J Abramson & Martine Dennekamp |
95 | Association between asthma and body mass index and socioeconomic status: A cross-sectional study on 849,659 adolescents
Barak Gordon, Aviad Hassid, Amir Bar-Shai, Estela Derazne, Dorit Tzur, Oded Hershkovich & Arnon Afek |
102 | Regulation of Th1/Th2 balance through OX40/OX40L signalling by glycyrrhizic acid in a murine model of asthma
Qiaozhen Wu, Ying Tang, Xiaoyun Hu, Qin Wang, Wei Lei, Linfu Zhou & Jianan Huang |
112 | Tamoxifen as a new therapeutic tool for neutrophilic lung inflammation
Barbara Perez, Claudio Henriquez, Jose Sarmiento, Natalia Morales, Hugo Folch, Juan S Galesio, Benjamin Uberti & Gabriel Moran |
COPD |
119 | Efficacy and tolerability of budesonide/formoterol added to tiotropium compared with tiotropium alone in patients with severe or very severe COPD: A randomized, multicentre study in East Asia
Sang-Do Lee, Can-mao Xie, Faisal Yunus, Yohji Itoh, Xia Ling, Wai-cho Yu & Sumalee Kiatboonsri |
128 | Differences in baseline factors and survival between normocapnia, compensated respiratory acidosis and decompensated respiratory acidosis in COPD exacerbation: A pilot study
Chung-Tat Lun, Miranda S N Tsui, Suet-Lai Cheng, Veronica L Chan, Wah-Shing Leung, Alice P S Cheung & Chung-Ming Chu |
137 | Undiagnosed airflow limitation is common in patients with coronary artery disease and associated with cardiac stress
Fanny W S Ko, Bryan P Yan, Yat-yin Lam, Jojo H Y Chu, Ka-pang Chan & David S C Hui |
Interstitial Lung Disease |
143 | Elevated sL1-CAM levels in BALF and serum of IPF patients
Yingwei Zhang, Lintao Bi, Yuying Qiu, Yang Wang, Jingjing Ding, Yi Zhuang, Yaqiong Tian & Hourong Cai |
Pulmonary Vascular Disease |
149 | Oxygen uptake is more efficient in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension than in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
Xiaofang Shi, Jian Guo, Sugang Gong, Rikesh Sapkota, Wenlan Yang, Hui Liu, Wenjing Xiang, Lan Wang, Xingguo Sun & Jinming Liu |
Respiratory Infections |
157 |
Predictors of Pseudomonas and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospitalized patients with healthcare-associated pneumonia
Mark L Metersky, Christopher R Frei & Eric M Mortensen |
164 | Predictors of prolonged stay in patients with community-acquired pneumonia and complicated parapneumonic effusion
Junghyun Kim, Jong Sun Park, Young-Jae Cho, Ho Il Yoon, Jae Ho Lee, Choon-Taek Lee, Hyo-Jeong Lim & Deog Kyeom Kim |
172 | Differential neutrophil activation in viral infections: Enhanced TLR-7/8-mediated CXCL8 release in asthma
Francesca S M Tang, David Van Ly, Kirsten Spann, Patrick C Reading, Janette K Burgess, Dominik Hartl, Katherine J Baines & Brian G Oliver |
Thoracic Surgery |
180 | Systemic inflammation and oxidative stress post-lung resection: Effect of pretreatment with N-acetylcysteine
Anthony J Bastin, Nathan Davies, Eric Lim, Greg J Quinlan & Mark J Griffiths |
SCIENTIFIC LETTERS |
188 | Optimal surgical management of pulmonary metastases: VATS versus thoracotomy
Rachel C Numan, Paul Baas, Houke M Klomp & Michel W Wouters |
191 | Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis in association with carcinomas
Eva Baroke, Claus Peter Heussel, Arne Warth, Monika Eichinger, Ute Oltmanns, Karin Palmowski, Felix J F Herth & Michael Kreuter |
CORRESPONDENCE |
195 | Telomere length and survival in IPF patients
Hiroaki Satoh |
195 | Telomere length and survival in IPF patients - Reply
Jinghong Dai & Qian Gao |
ERRATUM |
196 | This article corrects Vol. 20, Issue 7, 1089-1095: Non-anaemic iron deficiency impairs response to pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD |
196 | This article corrects Vol. 20, Issue 7, 1004-1005: Non-anaemic iron deficiency in COPD: A potential therapeutic target? |