Complement and the damaging effects of cardiopulmonary bypass.

Carlo Forlanini, inventor of artificial pneumothorax for treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.

Neurone-specific enolase and S-100: new markers for delineating the innervation of the respiratory tract in man and other mammals.

Thoracoscopy: influence of the procedure on some respiratory and cardiac values.

Arterial oxygenation during sleep in patients with right-to-left cardiac or intrapulmonary shunts.

Prognosis of cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis.

Elastolytic activity of alveolar macrophages in chronic bronchitis: comparison of current and former smokers.

Alveolar proteinosis: diagnosis and treatment over a 10-year period.

Type I collagen content is increased in lungs of patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome.

Retrospective survey of the management of miliary tuberculosis in South and West Wales, 1976-8.

Clinical review of pulmonary disease caused by Mycobacterium xenopi.

Effect of a timed interval between inhalation of beta-agonist and corticosteroid aerosols on the control of chronic asthma.

Spontaneous pneumomediastinum: is it a rare cause of chest pain?

Verapamil inhibits mediator release from human lung in vitro.

Obstruction of a Björk-Shiley mitral prosthesis in a patient with idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis.

Disc embolisation after minor strut fracture in a Björk-Shiley mitral valve prosthesis.

Hodgkin's disease in a large thymic cyst in a child.

Spontaneous intramural haematoma of the oesophagus.

Pleuropulmonary fibrosis associated with chronic and excessive intake of ergotamine.

Unusual presentation of an intramural oesophageal cyst.

Notices of books received

Intrapleural Corynebacterium parvum for malignant pleural effusions

Beta-blockers in bronchial asthma: effect of propranolol and pindolol on large and small airways