| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveStudy Protocol 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, and Guy Marks BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 8. Published online 2008 June 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-8.PMCID: PMC2442044 Technical Advance 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, and Peter G Davey BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 11. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-11.PMCID: PMC2518538 Research Articles 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, and Beat Müller BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 1. Published online 2008 January 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-1.PMCID: PMC2246097 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, and Tomas ML Eagan BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 2. Published online 2008 January 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-2.PMCID: PMC2267157 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, and Ralf Ewert BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 3. Published online 2008 February 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-3.PMCID: PMC2292676 Reproducibility of exhaled nitric oxide in smokers and non-smokers: relevance for longitudinal studies Abraham Bohadana, Jean-Pierre Michaely, Dan Teculescu, and Pascal Wild BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 4. Published online 2008 February 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-4.PMCID: PMC2292677 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, and Lutz Welker BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 5. Published online 2008 February 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-5.PMCID: PMC2277372 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, and Matthias Griese BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 6. Published online 2008 April 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-6.PMCID: PMC2364613 Do airway metallic stents for benign lesions confer too costly a benefit? Andrew L Chan, Maya M Juarez, Roblee P Allen, and Timothy E Albertson BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 7. Published online 2008 April 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-7.PMCID: PMC2386774 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, and John G Laffey BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 9. Published online 2008 July 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-9.PMCID: PMC2467400 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, and Irwin Reiss BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 10. Published online 2008 July 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-10.PMCID: PMC2483254 Hospital acquired pneumonia with high-risk bacteria is associated with increased pulmonary matrix metalloproteinase activity Bernhard Schaaf, Cornelia Liebau, Volkhard Kurowski, Daniel Droemann, and Klaus Dalhoff BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 12. Published online 2008 August 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-12.PMCID: PMC2518539 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, and Edson Antunes BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 13. Published online 2008 August 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-13.PMCID: PMC2527293 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, and Raffaele Antonelli-Incalzi BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 14. Published online 2008 August 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-14.PMCID: PMC2525624 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, and Mostafa Ghanei BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 15. Published online 2008 August 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-15.PMCID: PMC2527601 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, and Andrew F Shorr BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 16. Published online 2008 August 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-16.PMCID: PMC2531075 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, and Giuseppe Lungarella BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 17. Published online 2008 August 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-17.PMCID: PMC2533284 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, and John F Beamis, Jr BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 18. Published online 2008 September 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-18.PMCID: PMC2556644 Early intestinal Bacteroides fragilis colonisation and development of asthma Carl Vael, Vera Nelen, Stijn L Verhulst, Herman Goossens, and Kristine N Desager BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 19. Published online 2008 September 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-19.PMCID: PMC2562360 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, and Onofrio Resta BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 20. Published online 2008 September 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-20.PMCID: PMC2564898 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, and José A Marques BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 21. Published online 2008 October 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-21.PMCID: PMC2567288 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, and Rune Haaverstad BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 22. Published online 2008 October 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-22.PMCID: PMC2614408 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, and Shigeru Kohno BMC Pulm Med. 2008; 8: 23. Published online 2008 November 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-23.PMCID: PMC2588556 |