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| EDITORIALS |
| 1 | A prologue to the respirology tuberculosis review series 2010: Impact of tuberculosis on patients: Learning from the past? (Abstract)
Sheree M S SMITH |
| 4 | Iodopovidone as a pleurodesis agent: Setting standards for clinical pleural research (Abstract)
Andreas H DIACON |
| INVITED REVIEW SERIES: COMPLICATIONS IN LUNG PROCEDURES |
| 6 | Management of complications of minimally invasive thoracic surgery (Abstract)
Michael K Y HSIN, Anthony P C YIM |
| INVITED REVIEW SERIES: PULMONARY FIBROSIS |
| 19 | Current clinical trials for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (Abstract)
Ross C KLINGSBERG, Steven E MUTSAERS, Joseph A LASKY |
| INVITED REVIEW SERIES: TUBERCULOSIS |
| 32 | Stopping tuberculosis in the 21st century: Goals and strategies (Abstract)
Ikushi ONOZAKI, Mario RAVIGLIONE |
| THINK TANK REVIEW |
| 44 | Lung cancer: Progress in diagnosis, staging and therapy (Abstract)
Stephen G SPIRO, Nichole T TANNER, Gerard A SILVESTRI, Sam M JANES, Eric LIM, Johan F VANSTEENKISTE, Robert PIRKER |
| PRO/CON DEBATE |
| 51 | Public health management of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 infection in Australia: A failure! (Abstract)
Grant W WATERER, David S HUI, Christine R JENKINS |
| REVIEWS |
| 57 | Fractional exhaled nitric oxide in asthma: an update(Abstract)
Alessandra SANDRINI, D Robin TAYLOR, Paul S THOMAS, Deborah H YATES |
| 71 | Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA): Applications in chest disease (Abstract)
Andrew R L MEDFORD, Jonathan A BENNETT, Catherine M FREE, Sanjay AGRAWAL |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLES |
| 80 | Nerve growth factor mediated SH2-Bβ/Akt signal pathway activated in allergic airway challenge in mice (Abstract)
Yuli LIU, Baohui ZHANG, Shuna ZHANG, Jinping QI, Zhenghong ZHANG, Libo LIU, Xiubin FANG |
| 88 | Clinical characteristics of acute respiratory deterioration in pulmonary fibrosis associated with lung cancer following anti-cancer therapy (Abstract)
Kazutoshi ISOBE, Yoshinobu HATA, Susumu SAKAMOTO, Yujiro TAKAI, Kazutoshi SHIBUYA, Sakae HOMMA |
| 93 | Clinical characteristics of Japanese patients with familial obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (Abstract)
Akira MATSUO, Yuichi INOUE, Satoru TSUIKI, Minori ENOMOTO, Kazuyoshi NAMBA, Hiroshige CHIBA |
| 99 | Fluorescence optical fibre sensor provides accurate continuous oxygen detection in rabbit model with acute lung injury (Abstract)
Yuehong WANG, Sheng MENG, Yuanlin SONG, Wei ZHONG, Jinjun JIANG, Shujing CHEN, Chunxue BAI |
| 107 | Gender differences in asthma prevalence: Variations with socioeconomic disadvantage (Abstract)
Catherine R CHITTLEBOROUGH, Anne W TAYLOR, Eleonora DAL GRANDE, Tiffany K GILL, Janet F GRANT, Robert J ADAMS, David H WILSON, Richard E RUFFIN |
| 115 | Efficacy and safety of iodopovidone pleurodesis in malignant pleural effusions (Abstract)
Jose D A NETO, Sandro F Q de OLIVEIRA, Sylvana P VIANNA, Ricardo M TERRA |
| 119 | Iodopovidone is as effective as doxycycline in producing pleurodesis in rabbits (Abstract)
Yubiao GUO, Kejing TANG, Semra BILACEROGLU, Ioannis KALOMENIDIS, Kenneth J SALLENG, Kirk B LANE, Richard W LIGHT |
| 126 | Differences in the clinical characteristics of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in immunocompromized patients with and without HIV infection (Abstract)
Tatsuji ENOMOTO, Arata AZUMA, Ayumi KOHNO, Kazuyo KANEKO, Hitoshi SAITO, Minako KAMETAKA, Jiro USUKI, Akihiko GEMMA, Shoji KUDOH, Seiichi NAKAMURA |
| 132 | Effects of antisense interleukin-5 gene transferred by recombinant adeno-associated virus to allergic rats (Abstract)
Daxiong ZENG, Yong CAO, Qingfeng SONG, Chao CAO, Xiansheng LIU, Yongjian XU, Weining XIONG |
| 141 | Population-based study of cystic fibrosis disease severity and haemochromatosis gene mutations (Abstract)
Upasna PRATAP, Stephen QUINN, Leigh B BLIZZARD, David W REID |
| 150 | Bronchoscopic features and bronchoscopic intervention for endobronchial hamartoma (Abstract)
Su-A KIM, Sang-Won UM, Jae-Uk SONG, Kyeongman JEON, Won-Jung KOH, Gee Young SUH, Man Pyo Jung, O Jung KWON, Jong Heon PARK, Chin A YI, Joungho HAN, Hojoong KIM |
| 155 | Ambient temperature impacts on pH of exhaled breath condensate (Abstract)
Andreas R KOCZULLA, Sarah NOESKE, Christian HERR, Frank DETTE, Olaf PINKENBURG, Severin SCHMID, Rudolf A JARRES, Claus VOGELMEIER, Robert BALS |
| 160 | CRP gene variation and risk of community-acquired pneumonia (Abstract)
Kenneth J MUKAMAL, Jennifer K PAI, Ellen S O'MEARA, Russell P TRACY, Bruce M PSATY, Lewis H KULLER, Anne B NEWMAN, Sachin YENDE, Gary C CURHAN, David S SISCOVICK, Eric B RIMM |
| 165 | Eosinopenia as a marker of mortality and length of stay in patients admitted with exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Abstract)
Mat HOLLAND, Mohammad ALKHALIL, Siram CHANDROMOULI, Ali JANJUA, Marta BABORES |
| TECHNICAL REPORT |
| 168 | Transbronchoscopic selective bronchial occlusion for intractable pneumothorax (Abstract)
Yiming ZENG, Minli HONG, Huaping ZHANG, Dongyong YANG, Xiaoyang CHEN, Xibin ZUANG, Yunfeng CHENG, Jianhua GUAN, Qunyeng LIN |
| YEAR IN REVIEW |
| 172 | Year in review 2009: Interstitial lung diseases, acute injury, sleep, physiology, imaging and bronchoscopic intervention (Abstract)
Peter R EASTWOOD, Toby M MAHER, Athol U WELLS, Bing LAM |
| CASE REPORTS |
| 182 | Multiple tiny granulomatous lesions with eosinophils in a patient with smoldering-type adult T-cell leukaemia: The possibility of a new type of bronchioloalveolopathy (Abstract)
Hiroshi ISHII, Yoshinori KAWABATA, Yuka AMEMIYA, Masao OGATA, Jun-ichi KADOTA |
| 184 | Aerosolized vancomycin for the treatment of MRSA after lung transplantation (
Abstract)
Don HAYES JR, Brian S MURPHY, Timothy W MULLETT, David J FEOLA |
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| 187 | FORTHCOMING MEETINGS |
| 187 | JOURNAL STATISTICS |
| 188 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |