Annals ofPulmonary Medicine

Volume: 4 - Number: 30 - June 15, 2004

Outstanding

Outcome Measurements in COPD: Are We Schizophrenic?

Long-term Treatment With Oral Sildenafil in Addition to Continuous IV Epoprostenol in Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

The Contribution of Blood Cultures to the Clinical Management of Adult Patients Admitted to the Hospital With Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Prospective Observational Study

Bad Medicine: Low-Dose Dopamine in the ICU

Clinical investigations cardiology

Clinicopathologic Study and DNA Analysis of 37 Cardiac Myxomas: A 28-Year Experience

Clinical investigations in pneumonia

The Contribution of Blood Cultures to the Clinical Management of Adult Patients Admitted to the Hospital With Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Prospective Observational Study

A Rapid Staging System for Predicting Mortality From HIV-Associated Community-Acquired Pneumonia

clinical investigations PLEURAL EFFUSIONS

Variations in Pleural Fluid WBC Count and Differential Counts With Different Sample Containers and Different Methods

Critical care reviews

Bad Medicine: Low-Dose Dopamine in the ICU

Editorial

Non-small Cell Lung Cancer With Chest Wall Involvement

Outcome Measurements in COPD: Are We Schizophrenic?

Combination Antibiotic Therapy With Macrolides in Community-Acquired Pneumonia: More Smoke But Is There Any Fire?

The Variability of Sarcoidosis: Can We Predict It?

The Conundrum of Sleep Breathing Disorders in Heart Failure

Prone Position in ARDS: Are We Looking at a Half-Empty or Half-Full Glass?

Percutaneous Dilatational Tracheostomy: We Live in a Twisted World

Smoking: Not for Anyone

Occupational and environmental lung disease

Need for Monitoring Nonspecific Bronchial Hyperresponsiveness Before and After Isocyanate Inhalation Challenge

Review

Alternate Treatments in Asthma

Roentgenogram of the month

A 59-Year-Old Asymptomatic Man With Systolic Murmur and Mediastinal Mass

Selected reports

Long-term Treatment With Oral Sildenafil in Addition to Continuous IV Epoprostenol in Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Visceral Larva Migrans Mimicking Lymphoma

Lymphoepithelial Cyst in the Lung: A Case Report

High Concentration of (13)-ß-D-Glucan in BAL Fluid in Patients With Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia

Tracheobronchomalacia and Tracheal Hemorrhage in Patients With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Receiving Long-term Ventilation With Uncuffed Tracheostomies

Special report

Reliability of and Correlation Between the Respiratory Therapist Written Registry and Clinical Simulation Self-Assessment Examinations