Annals ofPulmonary Medicine

Volume: 5 - Number: 42 - July 15, 2005

Outstanding

Tuberculosis Chemotherapy: Still a Double-edged Sword

Airway Obstruction Is Common but Unsuspected in Patients Admitted to a General Medicine Service

Markers of Inflammation in Exhaled Breath Condensate of Young Healthy Smokers

Comparison of Continuous and Discrete Measurements of Dyspnea During Exercise in Patients With COPD and Normal Subjects

Bronchoscopy

The Efficacy of Premixed Nitrous Oxide and Oxygen for Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy in Pediatric Patients: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Study

Conventional vs Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration: A Randomized Trial

clinical investigations AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION

Airway Obstruction Is Common but Unsuspected in Patients Admitted to a General Medicine Service

clinical investigations ASTHMA

Ethnicity and Skin Test Reactivity to Aeroallergens Among Asthmatic Children in Connecticut

clinical investigations COPD

Risk and Severity of COPD Is Associated With the Group-Specific Component of Serum Globulin 1F Allele

Perforin Expression and Cytotoxic Activity of Sputum CD8+ Lymphocytes in Patients With COPD

Comparison of Continuous and Discrete Measurements of Dyspnea During Exercise in Patients With COPD and Normal Subjects

clinical investigations CYSTIC LUNG DISEASE

Diffuse Cystic Lung Diseases: Correlation Between Radiologic and Functional Status

A Phase I Trial of Intranasal Moli1901 for Cystic Fibrosis

The Repeatability of Forced Expiratory Volume Measurements in Adults With Cystic Fibrosis

clinical investigations SLEEP AND BREATHING

A Community Study of Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Middle-Aged Chinese Women in Hong Kong: Prevalence and Gender Differences

clinical investigations SMOKING

Smoking Patterns in African Americans and Whites With Advanced COPD

Markers of Inflammation in Exhaled Breath Condensate of Young Healthy Smokers

Smoking and Lung Cancer Survival: The Role of Comorbidity and Treatment

Control of breathing

Respiratory Effects of Gestational Intermittent Hypoxia in the Developing Rat

Editorial

Tuberculosis Chemotherapy: Still a Double-edged Sword

New Insights from an Old Model

The Blood Lung Function Test: Does It Exist for Asthma?

Exercise for Fun and Profit: Joint Statement on Exercise by the American Thoracic Society and the American College of Chest Physicians

To B or Not To B?: It Still Is the Question

Long-Acting Bronchodilators Are the First-Choice Option for the Treatment of Stable COPD

A Proper Balance

Editorial commentaries

Cerebral venous thrombosis – headache is enough

Whiplash injury may deregulate the biological clock

Does the risk factor profile have predictive value for the site of atherosclerosis?

exercise and the heart

Chronotropic Incompetence in a Young Adult: Case Report and Literature Review

F. Allergic Rhinitis

Neural Expression and Increased Lavage Fluid Levels of Secretoneurin in Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis

I. Exercise and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Six-Minute Walk Distance in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Reproducibility and Effect of Walking Course Layout and Length

J. Lung Function and Genomics

A Genome-Wide Scan of Pulmonary Function Measures in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Family Heart Study

Literature review

Top Ten List in Interstitial Lung Disease

Neuroscience for neurologists

Molecular and cellular pathways of neurodegeneration in motor neurone disease

Opinion/hyphotesis

Can Exogenously Administered Hyaluronan Improve Respiratory Function in Patients With Pulmonary Emphysema?

Papers

Neurophysiological predictors of long term response to AChE inhibitors in AD patients

On the overlap between apathy and depression in dementia

Cognitive performance after first ever stroke related to progression of vascular brain damage: a 2 year follow up CT scan study

Cognitive performance of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy and incidental calcified neurocysticercosis

Headache as the only neurological sign of cerebral venous thrombosis: a series of 17 cases

Brain energy metabolism and intracranial pressure in idiopathic adult hydrocephalus syndrome

Incidence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in southern Italy: a population based study

The features of myasthenia gravis with autoantibodies to MuSK

Pediatric Asthma

Clinical and Biological Heterogeneity in Children with Moderate Asthma

Pulmonary and critical care pearls

A 19-Year-Old Man With Nonresolving Pneumonia

Review

The Role of Long-Acting Bronchodilators in the Management of Stable COPD

Neurodegenerative disorders: Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease

Selected Report

Serum Levels of KL-6 for Predicting the Occurrence of Radiation Pneumonitis After Stereotactic Radiotherapy for Lung Tumors

Short reports

Bell’s palsy with ipsilateral numbness

Dominant LMNA mutations can cause combined muscular dystrophy and peripheral neuropathy

SPTLC1 and RAB7 mutation analysis in dominantly inherited and idiopathic sensory neuropathies

Real time polymerase chain reaction: a new powerful tool for the diagnosis of neurobrucellosis

Gluten sensitivity and neuromyelitis optica: two case reports

Bilateral subdural haematomata and lumbar pseudomeningocele due to a chronic leakage of liquor cerebrospinalis after a lumbar discectomy with the application of ADCON-L gel

Orthostatic intolerance and syncope associated with Chiari type I malformation

Tuberculosis

Incidence of Serious Side Effects from First-Line Antituberculosis Drugs among Patients Treated for Active Tuberculosis