Annals ofPulmonary Medicine

Volume: 7 - Number: 62 - March 15, 2007

Outstanding

Noninvasive Ventilation for Acute Respiratory Failure: But How Severe?

Noninvasive vs Conventional Mechanical Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Failure: A Multicenter, Randomized Controlled Trial

Tubular aggregate myopathy presenting with acute type II respiratory failure and severe orthopnoea

Systemic and Upper and Lower Airway Inflammation at Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Asthma

Risk Factors for Asthma and Asthma Severity in Nonurban Children in Connecticut

Asthma and Allergy

T-Bet Polymorphisms Are Associated with Asthma and Airway Hyperresponsiveness

Cases Reports

Tubular aggregate myopathy presenting with acute type II respiratory failure and severe orthopnoea

COPD

The Effects of Pulmonary Rehabilitation in the National Emphysema Treatment Trial

Systemic and Upper and Lower Airway Inflammation at Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Skeletal Muscle Adaptations to Interval Training in Patients With Advanced COPD

Relationship Between Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D and Pulmonary Function in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Raised CRP levels mark metabolic and functional impairment in advanced COPD

Pattern of Variables Describing Desaturator COPD Patients, as Revealed by Cluster Analysis

Critical Care

Noninvasive vs Conventional Mechanical Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Failure: A Multicenter, Randomized Controlled Trial

Cystic Fibrosis

Progression of lung disease on computed tomography and pulmonary function tests in children and adults with cystic fibrosis

Editorial

Skeletal muscle weakness, reduced exercise tolerance, and COPD: is systemic inflammation the missing link?

Pulmonary Physicians in the Practice of Sleep Medicine

PTEN as a New Agent in the Fight against Fibrogenesis

Noninvasive Ventilation for Acute Respiratory Failure: But How Severe?

Muscle Wasting in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: To Bother and to Measure

Generalities

The Incidence of Tracheoarterial Fistula in Patients With Chronic Tracheostomy Tubes: A Retrospective Study of 544 Patients in a Long-term Care Facility

Infection

Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infection: CT Scan Findings, Genotype, and Treatment Responsiveness

Interstitial lung disease

Negative Regulation of Myofibroblast Differentiation by PTEN (Phosphatase and Tensin Homolog Deleted on Chromosome 10)

The NHLBI Lymphangioleiomyomatosis Registry: Characteristics of 230 Patients at Enrollment

Laboratory and animal investigations

Simultaneous Donor Marrow Cell Transplantation With Reduced Intensity Conditioning Prevents Tracheal Allograft Obliteration in a Bronchiolitis Obliterans Murine Model

Lung cancer

Screening for lung cancer using low dose CT scanning: results of 2 year follow up

Pulmonary function

The Effects of Ethanol Ingestion on the Accuracy of Pulmonary Diffusing Capacity Measurement

Relationship of Dyspnea to Respiratory Drive and Pulmonary Function Tests in Obese Patients Before and After Weight Loss

Reviews

Targeted Therapy for the Treatment of Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: A Review of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Antagonists

Sarcoidosis

Pulmonary hypertension associated with sarcoidosis: mechanisms, haemodynamics and prognosis

Special Reports

Pitfalls in Diagnosis and Clinical, Echocardiographic, and Hemodynamic Findings in Endomyocardial Fibrosis: A 25-Year Experience