Ausgabe 1/2008
Inhalt (27 Artikel)
Effect of a 14-day course of systemic corticosteroids on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-axis in patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Philipp Schuetz, Mirjam Christ-Crain, Ursula Schild, Erika Süess, Michael Facompre, Florent Baty, Charly Nusbaumer, Martin Brutsche, Beat Müller
Predictors of diagnostic yield in bronchoscopy: a retrospective cohort study comparing different combinations of sampling techniques
Kjetil Roth, Jon A Hardie, Alf H Andreassen, Friedemann Leh, Tomas ML Eagan
Influence of the incremental step size in work rate on exercise response and gas exchange in patients with pulmonary hypertension
Sven Gläser, Sven Lodziewski, Beate Koch, Christian F Opitz, Henry Völzke, Ralf Ewert
Reproducibility of exhaled nitric oxide in smokers and non-smokers: relevance for longitudinal studies
Abraham Bohadana, Jean-Pierre Michaely, Dan Teculescu, Pascal Wild
Assessing airway inflammation in clinical practice – experience with spontaneous sputum analysis
Olaf Holz, Tanja Seiler, Andreas Karmeier, Jan Fraedrich, Helmut Leiner, Helgo Magnussen, Rudolf A Jörres, Lutz Welker
Surfactant proteins SP-B and SP-C and their precursors in bronchoalveolar lavages from children with acute and chronic inflammatory airway disease
Oliver Tafel, Philipp Latzin, Karl Paul, Tobias Winter, Markus Woischnik, Matthias Griese
Do airway metallic stents for benign lesions confer too costly a benefit?
Andrew L Chan, Maya M Juarez, Roblee P Allen, Timothy E Albertson
A cluster randomised controlled trial of nurse and GP partnership for care of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Nicholas Zwar, Oshana Hermiz, Iqbal Hasan, Elizabeth Comino, Sandy Middleton, Sanjyot Vagholkar, Guy Marks
Hypertonic saline reduces inflammation and enhances the resolution of oleic acid induced acute lung injury
Muiris T Kennedy, Brendan D Higgins, Joseph F Costello, William A Curtin, John G Laffey
Surfactant replacement and open lung concept – Comparison of two treatment strategies in an experimental model of neonatal ARDS
Anne Hilgendorff, Ece Aslan, Thomas Schaible, Ludwig Gortner, Thorsten Baehner, Michael Ebsen, Jochen Kreuder, Clemens Ruppert, Andreas Guenther, Irwin Reiss
The information and support needs of patients discharged after a short hospital stay for treatment of low-risk Community Acquired Pneumonia: implications for treatment without admission
Deborah J Baldie, Vikki A Entwistle, Peter G Davey
Hospital acquired pneumonia with high-risk bacteria is associated with increased pulmonary matrix metalloproteinase activity
Bernhard Schaaf, Cornelia Liebau, Volkhard Kurowski, Daniel Droemann, Klaus Dalhoff
Human eosinophil adhesion and degranulation stimulated with eotaxin and RANTES in vitro: Lack of interaction with nitric oxide
Letícia Lintomen, Gilberto Franchi, Alexandre Nowill, Antonio Condino-Neto, Gilberto de Nucci, Angelina Zanesco, Edson Antunes
Discriminative and predictive properties of disease-specific and generic health status indexes in elderly COPD patients
Maria E Conte, Claudio Pedone, Francesco Forastiere, Vincenzo Bellia, Raffaele Antonelli-Incalzi
Angiotensin-converting enzyme genotype and late respiratory complications of mustard gas exposure
Ali Reza Hosseini-khalili, Julian Thompson, Anthony Kehoe, Nicholas S Hopkinson, A Khoshbaten, Mohammad Reza Soroush, Steve E Humphries, Hugh Montgomery, Mostafa Ghanei
Hyponatremia and hospital outcomes among patients with pneumonia: a retrospective cohort study
Marya D Zilberberg, Alex Exuzides, James Spalding, Aimee Foreman, Alison Graves Jones, Chris Colby, Andrew F Shorr
Effect of roflumilast on inflammatory cells in the lungs of cigarette smoke-exposed mice
Piero A Martorana, Benedetta Lunghi, Monica Lucattelli, Giovanna De Cunto, Rolf Beume, Giuseppe Lungarella
Post tracheostomy and post intubation tracheal stenosis: Report of 31 cases and review of the literature
Nikolaos Zias, Alexandra Chroneou, Maher K Tabba, Anne V Gonzalez, Anthony W Gray, Carla R Lamb, David R Riker, John F Beamis Jr
Early intestinal Bacteroides fragilis colonisation and development of asthma
Carl Vael, Vera Nelen, Stijn L Verhulst, Herman Goossens, Kristine N Desager
Exhaled and arterial levels of endothelin-1 are increased and correlate with pulmonary systolic pressure in COPD with pulmonary hypertension
Pierluigi Carratu, Cristina Scoditti, Mauro Maniscalco, Teresa Maria Seccia, Giuseppe Di Gioia, Felice Gadaleta, Rosa Angela Cardone, Silvano Dragonieri, Paola Pierucci, Antonio Spanevello, Onofrio Resta
Autoadjusting-CPAP effect on serum Leptin concentrations in Obstructive Sleep Apnoea patients
Marta Drummond, João C Winck, João T Guimarães, Ana C Santos, João Almeida, José A Marques
Predictors of long time survival after lung cancer surgery: A retrospective cohort study
Kjetil Roth, Tom Ivar Lund Nilsen, Elisabeth Hatlen, Karina Søvik Sørensen, Torstein Hole, Rune Haaverstad
High serum concentrations of autoantibodies to HSP47 in nonspecific interstitial pneumonia compared with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Tomoyuki Kakugawa, Shin-ichi Yokota, Hiroshi Mukae, Hiroshi Kubota, Noriho Sakamoto, Syunji Mizunoe, Yasuhiro Matsuoka, Jun-ichi Kadota, Nobuhiro Fujii, Kazuhiro Nagata, Shigeru Kohno
The incidence of interstitial lung disease 1995–2005: a Danish nationwide population-based study
Jette B Kornum, Steffen Christensen, Miriam Grijota, Lars Pedersen, Pia Wogelius, Annette Beiderbeck, Henrik Toft Sørensen
Characterization of a murine model of monocrotaline pyrrole-induced acute lung injury
Rio Dumitrascu, Silke Koebrich, Eva Dony, Norbert Weissmann, Rajkumar Savai, Soni S Pullamsetti, Hossein A Ghofrani, Arun Samidurai, Horst Traupe, Werner Seeger, Friedrich Grimminger, Ralph T Schermuly
Improvement in symptoms and pulmonary function of asthmatic patients due to their treatment according to the Global Strategy for Asthma Management (GINA)
Mohammad H Boskabady, Fariba Rezaeitalab, Najmah Rahimi, Damon Dehnavi
Identification and management of adults with asthma prone to exacerbations: can we do better?
Neil C Thomson, Rekha Chaudhuri