Annals ofPulmonary Medicine

Volume: 4 - Number: 31 - July 15, 2004

Outstanding

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

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

Prognostic Value of Nutritional Depletion in Patients With COPD Treated by Long-term Oxygen Therapy: Data From the ANTADIR Observatory

Resting Lung Function and Hemodynamic Parameters as Predictors of Exercise Capacity in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure

Antitrypsin

Striking Similarities in Systemic Factors Contributing to Decreased Exercise Capacity in Patients With Severe Chronic Heart Failure or COPD

Augmentation Therapy With 1-Antitrypsin: Patterns of Use and Adverse Events

Asthma

Prognostic Value of Nutritional Depletion in Patients With COPD Treated by Long-term Oxygen Therapy: Data From the ANTADIR Observatory

Cigarette Smoking Among Asthmatic Adults Presenting to 64 Emergency Departments

Budesonide and Formoterol in a Single Inhaler Improves Asthma Control Compared With Increasing the Dose of Corticosteroid in Adults With Mild-to-Moderate Asthma

Cardiology

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

Clinical problems in cardiopulmonary disease

Coarctation of the Aorta in an Adult: Problems of Diagnosis and Management

COPD

A Longitudinal Study of 1-Antitrypsin Phenotypes and Decline in FEV1 in a Community Population

Long-term Treatment Benefits With Tiotropium in COPD Patients With and Without Short-term Bronchodilator Responses

Comparison of Acetazolamide and Medroxyprogesterone as Respiratory Stimulants in Hypercapnic Patients With COPD

Cystic Fibrosis

Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in Patients With Advanced Cystic Fibrosis

Susceptibility Testing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates and Clinical Response to Parenteral Antibiotic Administration: Lack of Association in Cystic Fibrosis

An Automated Approach to Quantitative Air Trapping Measurements in Mild Cystic Fibrosis

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

Environmental and Occupational Lung Diseases

Respiratory Findings in Tobacco Workers

Exercise

Resting Lung Function and Hemodynamic Parameters as Predictors of Exercise Capacity in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure

Single-Breath Diffusing Capacity of the Lung for Carbon Monoxide: A Predictor of PaO2, Maximum Work Rate, and Walking Distance in Patients With Emphysema

6-Minute Walk Testing Is More Sensitive Than Maximal Incremental Cycle Testing for Detecting Oxygen Desaturation in Patients With COPD

6-Minute Walk Work for Assessment of Functional Capacity in Patients With COPD

Impact of basic research on tomorrow`s medicine

The Genetic Determinants of Smoking

Opinion/hypothesis

Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Staging Techniques and Endoscopic Ultrasound: Tissue Is Still the Issue

Pneumoniae

Impact of Initial Antibiotic Choice on Clinical Outcomes in Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Analysis of a Hospital Claims-Made Database

Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Southeast Asia: The Microbial Differences Between Ambulatory and Hospitalized Patients

Pulmonar Hypertensión

Pulmonary Hypertension in Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease

Effect of Orally Active Prostacyclin Analogue on Survival in Patients With Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension Without Major Vessel Obstruction

Review

Diagnosis and Treatment of Rhinovirus Respiratory Infections

Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis: Emerging Concepts in Pathobiology, Radiology, and Clinical Evolution of Disease

Sarcoidosis

Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Gene Polymorphisms in Japanese Patients With Sarcoidosis

Occupational Risk Factors for Sarcoidosis in African-American Siblings

Selected reports

A New Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approach to Pericardial Effusion: Transbronchial Needle Aspiration

Pulmonary Embolism in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Transplant Recipients

Chronic Eosinophilic Pneumonia: A Case Report and National Survey

A Combined Modality Approach to Recurrent Cardiac Sarcoma Resulting in a Prolonged Remission: A Case Report

Sleep and Breathing

Relationship of Systolic BP to Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Patients With Heart Failure

Gender Differences in Sleep Apnea: The Role of Neck Circumference

Cardiorespiratory Effects of Added Dead Space in Patients With Heart Failure and Central Sleep Apnea

BP and Arterial Distensibility in Children With Primary Snoring

Utility of Oxygen Saturation and Heart Rate Spectral Analysis Obtained From Pulse Oximetric Recordings in the Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea Syndrome

Special Reports

Interpreting COPD Prevalence Estimates: What Is the True Burden of Disease?

Interventional Pulmonary Procedures: Guidelines from the American College of Chest Physicians