Annals ofPulmonary Medicine

Volume: 6 - Number: 55 - August 15, 2006

Outstanding

Bronchoscope Reprocessing and Infection Prevention and Control: Bronchoscopy-Specific Guidelines Are Needed

Early Alterations in Neutrophil Activation Are Associated with Outcome in Acute Lung Injury

Chyloptysis in Adults: Presentation, Recognition, and Differential Diagnosis

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

Acute lung injury

Early Alterations in Neutrophil Activation Are Associated with Outcome in Acute Lung Injury

Airway obstruction

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

Bronchoscopy

Bronchoscope Reprocessing and Infection Prevention and Control: Bronchoscopy-Specific Guidelines Are Needed

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

Cardiology

Cerebral Oxygenation During Exercise in Cardiac Patients

Deep Vein Thrombosis Among Patients Entering Cardiac Rehabilitation After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

COPD

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

Critical Care

Alveolar Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor and -Chemokines in Relation to Serum Levels, Pulmonary Neutrophilia, and Severity of Lung Injury in ARDS

Cystic lung diseases

A Phase I Trial of Intranasal Moli1901 for Cystic Fibrosis

Diffuse Cystic Lung Diseases: Correlation Between Radiologic and Functional Status

Editorial

A Proper Balance

Exercise and the heart

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

G. Airway Biology

Accentuated T Helper Type 2 Airway Response after Allergen Challenge in Cyclooxygenase-1-/- but Not Cyclooxygenase-2-/- Mice

J. Lung Function and Genomics

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

Laboratory and animal investigations

Differential-Display Polymerase Chain Reaction Identifies Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide-Ubiquinone Oxidoreductase as an Ischemia/Reperfusion-Regulated Gene in Cardiomyocytes

Lung Transplantation and Nitric Oxide

A Randomized Trial of Inhaled Nitric Oxide to Prevent Ischemia–Reperfusion Injury after Lung Transplantation

Occupational and environmental lung disease

Decreased Respiratory Symptoms After Intervention in Artificially Ventilated Offices in São Paulo, Brazil

Opinions/hypotheses

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

Pediatric Asthma

Clinical and Biological Heterogeneity in Children with Moderate Asthma

Pleura

Clinical Implications of Appearance of Pleural Fluid at Thoracentesis

Pulmonary and critical care pearls

A 19-Year-Old Man With Nonresolving Pneumonia

Rx at Month

Dysphagia After Heimlich Maneuver

Selected reports

Chyloptysis in Adults: Presentation, Recognition, and Differential Diagnosis

Sleep and Breathing

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

Aldosterone Excretion Among Subjects With Resistant Hypertension and Symptoms of Sleep Apnea