| EDITORIALS |
| 881 | Fast food and asthma and allergy: Be afried, be deeply afried?
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| 883 | Hazardous haze in Asia and breathing problems
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| 885 | Systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease: Role of the oesophagus in outcomes
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| 887 | Red cell transfusion and clinical outcomes in acute pulmonary embolism: Harmful therapy or an indicator of sicker patients with poor prognosis?
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| 889 | Xpert MTB/RIF for rapid detection of TB and rifampicin resistance in the evaluation of tracheobronchial lesions: What's to stop its use?
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| COMMENTARY |
| 891 | High or low impact? Triple therapy in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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| INVITED REVIEW SERIES |
| Tuberculosis Updates 2018 |
| 893 | Latent tuberculosis infection: Opportunities and challenges
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| SYSTEMATIC REVIEW |
| 901 | Is the consumption of fast foods associated with asthma or other allergic diseases?
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| ORIGINAL ARTICLES |
| Environmental and Occupational Lung Disease |
| 914 |
Annual Southeast Asia haze increases respiratory admissions: A 2-year large single institution experience
Chew R Ming, Andrea Ban Yu-Lin, Mohammad F Abdul Hamid, Mohd T Latif, Nurashikin Mohammad, Tidi Hassan
10.1111/resp.13325'>10.1111/resp.13325
Limited reports have examined the direct clinical impact of the Southeast Asia (SEA) annual haze. This study is a retrospective analysis examining the effects of the haze on respiratory admissions. This study reports for the first time that the annual SEA haze is associated with increased respiratory admissions. |
| Interstitial Lung Disease |
| 921 | Oesophageal diameter is associated with severity but not progression of systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease
Tiffany A Winstone, Cameron J Hague, Jeanette Soon, Nada Sulaiman, Darra Murphy, Jonathon Leipsic, James V Dunne, Pearce G Wilcox, Christopher J Ryerson
10.1111/resp.13309'>10.1111/resp.13309
We used a large cohort of patients with systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD) to conduct the most comprehensive study to date evaluating the association of oesophageal measures with progression and mortality of SSc-ILD. We show that oesophageal disease is associated with SSc-ILD severity and mortality, but not with ILD progression or asymmetry. |
| Lung cancer |
| 927 | Consensus minimum data set for lung cancer multidisciplinary teams: Results of a Delphi process
Emily Stone, Nicole Rankin, Jane Phillips, Kwun Fong, David C Currow, Alistair Miller, Geraldine Largey, Robert Zielinski, Peter Flynn, Tim Shaw
10.1111/resp.13307'>10.1111/resp.13307
This study uses the Delphi process for consultation with lung cancer multidisciplinary team (MDT) health professionals to develop an optimized data set for MDT teams. This data set results from a practical approach to identify clinically useful data elements that facilitate standardization of MDT data collection, internal MDT review and future outcomes research. |
| Pulmonary Vascular Disease |
| 935 | Red blood cell transfusion and outcomes in acute pulmonary embolism
Christopher C Y Wong, Wallace W K Chow, Jerrett K Lau, Vincent Chow, Austin C C Ng, Leonard Kritharides
10.1111/resp.13314'>10.1111/resp.13314
This study is the first to identify blood transfusion as an independent predictor of mortality in pulmonary embolism. In our study, 5% of patients received blood transfusion. Mortality was significantly higher in this group of patients and multivariable modelling showed blood transfusion to be an independent predictor of mortality. |
| Respiratory Infections |
| 942 | Early increase of VEGF-A is associated with resolution of ventilator-associated pneumonia: Clinical and experimental evidence
Ioannis Strouvalis, Christina Routsi, Maria Adamopoulou, Maria Raftogiannis, George Renieris, Stylianos E Orfanos, Anastasia Kotanidou, Labros Sabracos, Evangelos J Giamarellos-Bourboulis
10.1111/resp.13320'>10.1111/resp.13320
A significant increase in human blood vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-A is associated with early resolution of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP); this was an independent predictor of resolution despite disease severity. Experimental chronic lung infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in mice led to increased VEGF-A concentrations in the lung and a reciprocal decrease of pro-inflammatory cytokines and myeloperoxidase activity. |
| Tuberculosis |
| 950 |
GeneXpert MTB/RIF for rapid diagnosis and rifampin resistance detection of endobronchial tuberculosis
Qin Zhang, Qing Zhang, Bing-qi Sun, Chang Liu, An-na Su, Xiao-han Wang, Na Liu, Juan Zhang, Jian Kang, Gang Hou
10.1111/resp.13316'>10.1111/resp.13316
Compared with the traditional technique, GeneXpert Mycobacterium tuberculosis/rifampin (MTB/RIF) can more rapidly diagnose endobronchial tuberculosis (EBTB) and RIF resistance in bronchial brushings and biopsy tissues. This approach may contribute to the accurate diagnosis and timely treatment of EBTB. |
| LETTER FROM ASIA-PACIFIC REGION |
| 956 | Letter from the Philippines
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| CORRESPONDENCES |
| 958 | Usual interstitial pneumonia: A distinct group within interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features?
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| 959 | Usual interstitial pneumonia: A distinct group within interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features? - Reply
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| 960 | Red blood cell transfusion and outcomes in acute pulmonary embolism: A response
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