Annals ofPulmonary Medicine

Volume: 4 - Number: 36 - December 15, 2004

Outstanding

Risk of Mortality and Heart Failure Exacerbations Associated With Inhaled ß-Adrenoceptor Agonists Among Patients With Known Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction

Exercise Training Improves Exertional Dyspnea in Patients With COPD: Evidence of the Role of Mechanical Factors

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

Chronic Eosinophilic Pneumonia: A Case Report and National Survey

Cardiology

Feasibility of Simplifying Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty by Obviating Left-Sided Cardiac Catheterization Using On-line Guidance With Transesophageal Echocardiography

Risk of Mortality and Heart Failure Exacerbations Associated With Inhaled ß-Adrenoceptor Agonists Among Patients With Known Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction

COPD

Exercise Training Improves Exertional Dyspnea in Patients With COPD: Evidence of the Role of Mechanical Factors

Pulmonary Vascular Responses to Hypoxia and Hyperoxia in Healthy Volunteers and COPD Patients Measured by Electrical Impedance Tomography

A Comparison of the Effects of Salbutamol and Ipratropium Bromide on Exercise Endurance in Patients With COPD

Cardiovascular Safety of Salmeterol in COPD

Cystic Fibrosis

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

Laboratory and animal investigations

Cigarette Smoking Increases Neutrophil Formyl Methionyl Leucyl Phenylalanine Receptor Numbers

Continuous Tepid Blood Cardioplegia Can Preserve Coronary Endothelium and Ameliorate the Occurrence of Cardiomyocyte Apoptosis

T Helper Type 2 Cytokine Receptors and Associated Transcription Factors GATA-3, c-MAF, and Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription Factor-6 in Induced Sputum of Atopic Asthmatic Patients

Extra-Fine Particles Improve Lung Delivery of Inhaled Steroids in Infants: A Study in an Upper Airway Model

Efficacy of a New Intraaortic Propeller Pump vs the Intraaortic Balloon Pump: An Animal Study

Review

Diagnosis and Treatment of Rhinovirus Respiratory Infections

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

Selected Report

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

Transcatheter Closure of Traumatic Ventricular Septal Defect: An Alternative to Surgery

Relapsing Acute Respiratory Failure Induced by Minocycline

Tracheal Lobular Capillary Hemangioma: A Rare Cause of Recurrent Hemoptysis

Methotrexate-Induced Pulmonary Lymphoma

Special Reports

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

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