Annals ofPulmonary Medicine

Volume: 3 - Number: 20 - August 15, 2003

Outstanding

Association Between Plasma Endothelin-1 Levels and Cheyne-Stokes Respiration in Patients With Congestive Heart Failure*

Cost-effectiveness of Tuberculosis Prophylaxis After Release From Short-term Correctional Facilities*

Central sleep apnoea syndrome in patients with chronic heart disease: a critical review of the current literature

Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome After Single-Lung Transplantation* : Impact of Time to Onset on Functional Pattern and Survival

Asthma

Clinically Important Improvements in Asthma-Specific Quality of Life, But No Difference in Conventional Clinical Indexes in Patients Changed From Conventional Beclomethasone Dipropionate to Approximately Half the Dose of Extrafine Beclomethasone Dipropion

Airway Dehydration*: A Therapeutic Target in Asthma?

Cardiology

Association Between Plasma Endothelin-1 Levels and Cheyne-Stokes Respiration in Patients With Congestive Heart Failure*

Critical Care

Characteristics of the Acute Rise of Atrial Natriuretic Factor During Ventricular Pacing

Acute-Onset Quadriplegia, Respiratory Failure, and Ventricular Tachycardia in a 21-Year-Old Man Following a Soccer Match*

Editorial

Challenges of Treating Latent Tuberculosis Infection

A National Pulmonary Hypertension Service for England & Wales: an orphan disease is adopted?

Environmental and Occupational Lung Diseases

A Longitudinal Study of Chest Radiographic Changes of Workers in the Refractory Ceramic Fiber Industry

Infections

Cost-effectiveness of Tuberculosis Prophylaxis After Release From Short-term Correctional Facilities*

Clinical Presentation of Community-Acquired Chlamydia pneumoniae Pneumonia in Adults*

Lung surgery

Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome After Single-Lung Transplantation* : Impact of Time to Onset on Functional Pattern and Survival

Nitric Oxide

Asthma and COPD Among Aboriginals in Alberta, Canada*

Original Articles

Diaphragm plication following phrenic nerve injury: a comparison of paediatric and adult patients

Effect of CPAP on intrinsic PEEP, inspiratory effort, and lung volume in severe stable COPD

Decreased peroxynitrite inhibitory activity in induced sputum in patients with bronchial asthma

Contrasting effects of allergen challenge on airway responsiveness to cysteinyl leukotriene D4 and methacholine in mild asthma

Association of body mass index with the development of methacholine airway hyperresponsiveness in men: the Normative Aging Study

Assessing patients' preferences for characteristics associated with homeopathic and conventional treatment of asthma: a conjoint analysis study

Antibiotic resistant tuberculosis in the United Kingdom: 1993–1999

Pulmonar Hypertensión

Analysis of Exhaled Nitric Oxide by the Helium Bolus Method*

Reviews

Does Acute Organ Dysfunction Predict Patient-Centered Outcomes?*

Central sleep apnoea syndrome in patients with chronic heart disease: a critical review of the current literature

Selected Report

Anomalous Collateral from the Coronary Artery to the Affected Lung in a Case of Congenital Absence of the Left Pulmonary Artery* : Effect on Coronary Circulation

Transplantation

Clinical Efficacy of Sitaxsentan, an Endothelin-A Receptor Antagonist, in Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension* : Open-Label Pilot Study

Arterial Oxygenation Associated With Portopulmonary Hypertension*