EDITORIALS |
795 | Step down or step up?
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797 | Bronchiectasis: Yet another systemic disease?
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799 | Cost-effective treatment, prevention and management of chronic respiratory conditions: A continuing challenge
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801 | Could quality be the key in connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease?
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803 | Malignant airway obstruction: What to do?
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805 | Pulmonary infarction: A disease of the (mostly) young
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INVITED REVIEW SERIES |
Tuberculosis Updates 2018 |
807 | Where is tuberculosis transmission happening? Insights from the literature, new tools to study transmission and implications for the elimination of tuberculosis
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INVITED REVIEW |
818 | Current controversies in the stepping up and stepping down of inhaled therapies for COPD at the patient level
Jose Luis Lopez-Campos, Laura Carrasco, Hernández, Xavier Muneoz, Víctor Bustamante, Esther Barreiro
10.1111/resp.13341 |
ORIGINAL ARTICLES |
Bronchiectasis |
828 |
Increased risk of acute coronary syndrome in patients with bronchiectasis: A population-based cohort study
Chin-Tun Hung, Shu-Fen Li, Wei-Sheng Chung
10.1111/resp.13298
This is the first study in an Asian population to show that patients with bronchiectasis are at increased risk of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) compared with the general population. Patients with bronchiectasis experiencing frequent respiratory infections have a substantially higher risk of ACS.
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COPD |
835 |
Cost-effectiveness of endobronchial valve treatment in patients with severe emphysema compared to standard medical care
Jorine E Hartman, Karin Klooster, Henk Groen, Nick H T ten Hacken, Dirk-Jan Slebos
10.1111/resp.13295
We performed an economic evaluation of the bronchoscopic lung volume reduction treatment using valves compared with standard medical care from the hospital perspective. Our results showed that the treatment has a favourable cost-effectiveness profile in the long term and also when compared with other advanced treatments for severe emphysema patients.
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Critical Care |
842 | Impact of limb weakness on extubation failure after planned extubation in medical patients
Byeong-Ho Jeong, Jimyoung Nam, Myeong Gyun Ko, Chi Ryang, Chung Gee, Young Suh, Kyeongman Jeon
10.1111/resp.13305
Limb muscle weakness, as assessed by the Medical Research Council scale on the day of planned extubation, was found to be independently associated with a higher extubation failure rate following planned extubation among patients in a medical intensive care unit (ICU) with a protocol-based weaning programme. |
Interstitial Lung Disease |
851 | Performance of the St George's Respiratory Questionnaire in patients with connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease
Atsushi Suzuki, Yasuhiro Kondoh, Jeffrey J Swigris, Masahiko Ando, Tomoki Kimura, Kensuke Kataoka, Yasuhiko Yamano, Taiki Furukawa, Mari Numata, Koji Sakamoto, Yoshinori Hasegawa
10.1111/resp.13293
This research study supports the validity and reliability of the St George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) as a sensitive measure for capturing health-related quality of life in patients with connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease (CTD-ILD). |
Interventional Pulmonology |
860 | External beam radiation therapy combined with airway stenting leads to better survival in patients with malignant airway obstruction
Christopher Mallow, Jeffrey Thiboutot, Roy Semaan, Margaret M Hayes, Russell Hales, Ashwin Ram, David Feller-Kopman, Hans Lee, Lonny Yarmus
10.1111/resp.13292
Malignant airway obstruction is a complication for lung cancer patients. Multiple modalities exist for the treatment of this ailment, including airway stenting and external beam radiotherapy (EBRT). We showed retrospectively that airway stenting combined with EBRT was associated with increased survival in comparison to either treatment in isolation. |
Pulmonary Vascular Disease |
866 | Pulmonary infarction secondary to pulmonary embolism: An evolving paradigm
Marjan Islam, Jason Filopei, Matthew Frank, Navitha Ramesh, Stacey Verzosa, Madeline Ehrlich, Eric Bondarsky, Albert Miller, David Steiger
10.1111/resp.13299
Pulmonary infarction during acute pulmonary embolism is proposed to occur predominantly in elderly heart patients. We found that younger individuals without cardiopulmonary disease were more likely to develop pulmonary infarction during pulmonary embolism and hypothesized that regional hypoxia from chronic cardiopulmonary disease promotes pulmonary collateral circulation, offering protection from pulmonary infarction. |
LETTER FROM ASIA-PACIFIC REGION |
873 | Letter from Korea
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CORRIGENDUM |
875 | CORRIGENDUM
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