Annals ofPulmonary Medicine

Volume: 8 - Number: 74 - April 15, 2008

Outstanding

Echocardiography in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: An Essential Tool

Environmental Asbestos Contamination: What Are the Risks?

Factors Related to Diagnostic Sensitivity Using an Ultrathin Bronchoscope Under CT Guidance

Epidemiology and Outcomes of Acute Lung Injury

Advances in chest medicine

Epidemiology and Outcomes of Acute Lung Injury

Asthma and Allergy

Early-Life Psychological Stress Exacerbates Adult Mouse Asthma via the Hypothalamus–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis

Helminth-derived Products Inhibit the Development of Allergic Responses in Mice

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

C-reactive Protein As a Predictor of Prognosis in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Critical care medicine

Higher Urine Nitric Oxide Is Associated with Improved Outcomes in Patients with Acute Lung Injury

Editorial

C-reactive Protein: Does It Predict Mortality?

Echocardiography in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: An Essential Tool

Environmental Asbestos Contamination: What Are the Risks?

Esophageal Endoscopic Ultrasound/Endobronchial Ultrasound–guided Fine Needle Aspiration: A New Dawn for the Respiratory Physician?

Getting What We Pay For

Interventional Pulmonology

Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Staging: A Systematic Review and Metaanalysis

Factors Related to Diagnostic Sensitivity Using an Ultrathin Bronchoscope Under CT Guidance

Lung cancer and oncologic disorders

Endoscopic Ultrasound As a First Test for Diagnosis and Staging of Lung Cancer: A Prospective Study

Lung infection

Discrepant Results Between Pyrazinamide Susceptibility Testing by the Reference BACTEC 460TB Method and pncA DNA Sequencing in Patients Infected With Multidrug-Resistant W-Beijing Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains

Discriminating Inhalational Anthrax From Community-Acquired Pneumonia Using Chest Radiograph Findings and a Clinical Algorithm

Lung trasplantation

Elevation of Interleukin-15 Protein Expression in Bronchoalveolar Fluid in Acute Lung Allograft Rejection

Miscellanea

Documenting Research in Scientific Articles: Guidelines for Authors: 3. Reporting Multivariate Analyses

Selected Report

Endotracheal Castleman Disease: A Case Report

Familial Churg-Strauss Syndrome in Two Sisters

Sleep and control of ventilation

Effects of Acetazolamide on Ventilatory, Cerebrovascular, and Pulmonary Vascular Responses to Hypoxia