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01 October 2015; volume 46, issue 4

Electronic Resources

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    ERJ October Podcast: new guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension
    European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) E58; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.20154604.E58 Published 30 September 2015
    • ERJ Podcast

Editorials

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    The 2015 ESC/ERS Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension: a practical chronicle of progress
    Edmund M.T. Lau, Yuichi Tamura, Michael D. McGoon, Olivier Sitbon
    European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 879-882; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01177-2015 Published 30 September 2015
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    The 2015 guidelines for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: an important chapter in the evolution of the management of patients with IPF
    Kevin C. Wilson, Ganesh Raghu
    European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 883-886; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01335-2015 Published 30 September 2015
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    Classification of antituberculosis drugs: a new proposal based on the most recent evidence
    Jose A. Caminero, Anna Scardigli
    European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 887-893; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00432-2015 Published 30 September 2015
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    Multitasking basal cells: combining stem cell and innate immune duties
    Renat Shaykhiev
    European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 894-897; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00521-2015 Published 30 September 2015
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    The double-edged sword of neutrophilic inflammation in bronchiectasis
    Miguel Ángel Martínez-García, Concepción Prados Sánchez, Rosa María Girón Moreno
    European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 898-900; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00961-2015 Published 30 September 2015
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    Should COPD stand for “comorbidity-related obstructive pulmonary disease”?
    Don D. Sin
    European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 901-902; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01112-2015 Published 30 September 2015
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ESC/ERS Guidelines

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    2015 ESC/ERS Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension
    Nazzareno Galiè, Marc Humbert, Jean-Luc Vachiery, Simon Gibbs, Irene Lang, Adam Torbicki, Gérald Simonneau, Andrew Peacock, Anton Vonk Noordegraaf, Maurice Beghetti, Ardeschir Ghofrani, Miguel Angel Gomez Sanchez, Georg Hansmann, Walter Klepetko, Patrizio Lancellotti, Marco Matucci, Theresa McDonagh, Luc A. Pierard, Pedro T. Trindade, Maurizio Zompatori, Marius Hoeper
    European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 903-975; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01032-2015 Published 30 September 2015
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    • ERJ Podcast
    • Erratum

ERS/ATS Task Force

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    An official European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society research statement: interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features
    Aryeh Fischer, Katerina M. Antoniou, Kevin K. Brown, Jacques Cadranel, Tamera J. Corte, Roland M. du Bois, Joyce S. Lee, Kevin O. Leslie, David A. Lynch, Eric L. Matteson, Marta Mosca, Imre Noth, Luca Richeldi, Mary E. Strek, Jeffrey J. Swigris, Athol U. Wells, Sterling G. West, Harold R. Collard, Vincent Cottin on behalf of the “ERS/ATS Task Force on Undifferentiated Forms of CTD-ILD”
    European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 976-987; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00150-2015 Published 30 September 2015
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    • Supplementary material

Original Articles

  • COPD

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      The PROactive instruments to measure physical activity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
      Elena Gimeno-Santos, Yogini Raste, Heleen Demeyer, Zafeiris Louvaris, Corina de Jong, Roberto A. Rabinovich, Nicholas S. Hopkinson, Michael I. Polkey, Ioannis Vogiatzis, Maggie Tabberer, Fabienne Dobbels, Nathalie Ivanoff, Willem I. de Boer, Thys van der Molen, Karoly Kulich, Ignasi Serra, Xavier Basagaña, Thierry Troosters, Milo A. Puhan, Niklas Karlsson, Judith Garcia-Aymerich  on behalf of the PROactive consortium
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 988-1000; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00183014 Published 30 September 2015
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      Molecular and clinical diseasome of comorbidities in exacerbated COPD patients
      Rosa Faner, Alba Gutiérrez-Sacristán, Ady Castro-Acosta, Solène Grosdidier, Wenqi Gan, Milagros Sánchez-Mayor, Jose Luis Lopez-Campos, Francisco Pozo-Rodriguez, Ferran Sanz, David Mannino, Laura I. Furlong, Alvar Agusti
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1001-1010; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00763-2015 Published 30 September 2015
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  • Asthma

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      Gender differences in adult-onset asthma: results from the Swiss SAPALDIA cohort study
      Sofie Hansen, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Dirk Keidel, Julia Dratva, Robert Bettschart, Marco Pons, Luc Burdet, Pierre-Olivier Bridevaux, Tamara Schikowski, Christian Schindler, Thierry Rochat, Elisabeth Zemp
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1011-1020; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02278-2014 Published 30 September 2015
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  • Bronchiectasis

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      A randomised, placebo-controlled study of the CXCR2 antagonist AZD5069 in bronchiectasis
      Anthony De Soyza, Ian Pavord, J. Stuart Elborn, David Smith, Heather Wray, Margareta Puu, Bengt Larsson, Robert Stockley
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1021-1032; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00148-2015 Published 30 September 2015
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  • Cystic fibrosis

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      Short-chain fatty acids affect cystic fibrosis airway inflammation and bacterial growth
      Peyman Ghorbani, Prisila Santhakumar, Qingda Hu, Pascal Djiadeu, Thomas M.S. Wolever, Nades Palaniyar, Hartmut Grasemann
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1033-1045; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00143614 Published 30 September 2015
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      Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing molecules correlate with clinical status in cystic fibrosis
      Helen L. Barr, Nigel Halliday, Miguel Cámara, David A. Barrett, Paul Williams, Douglas L. Forrester, Rebecca Simms, Alan R. Smyth, David Honeybourne, Joanna L. Whitehouse, Edward F. Nash, Jane Dewar, Andrew Clayton, Alan J. Knox, Andrew W. Fogarty
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1046-1054; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00225214 Published 30 September 2015
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      Lung clearance index in cystic fibrosis subjects treated for pulmonary exacerbations
      Nicole Sonneveld, Sanja Stanojevic, Reshma Amin, Paul Aurora, Jane Davies, J. Stuart Elborn, Alex Horsley, Philipp Latzin, Katherine O'Neill, Paul Robinson, Emma Scrase, Hiran Selvadurai, Padmaja Subbarao, Liam Welsh, Sophie Yammine, Felix Ratjen
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1055-1064; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00211914 Published 30 September 2015
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  • Sleep

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      Biomarkers of oxidative stress following continuous positive airway pressure withdrawal: data from two randomised trials
      John R. Stradling, Esther I. Schwarz, Christian Schlatzer, Ari R. Manuel, Regent Lee, Charalambos Antoniades, Malcolm Kohler
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1065-1071; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00023215 Published 30 September 2015
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      Human intermittent hypoxia-induced respiratory plasticity is not caused by inflammation
      Andrew E. Beaudin, Xavier Waltz, Matiram Pun, Katherine E. Wynne-Edwards, Sofia B. Ahmed, Todd J. Anderson, Patrick J. Hanly, Marc J. Poulin
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1072-1083; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00007415 Published 30 September 2015
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  • Pulmonary vascular disease

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      Chymase: a multifunctional player in pulmonary hypertension associated with lung fibrosis
      Djuro Kosanovic, Himal Luitel, Bhola Kumar Dahal, Teodora Cornitescu, Wiebke Janssen, A.H. Jan Danser, Ingrid M. Garrelds, Jo G.R. De Mey, Gregorio Fazzi, Paul Schiffers, Marc Iglarz, Walter Fischli, Hossein Ardeschir Ghofrani, Norbert Weissmann, Friedrich Grimminger, Werner Seeger, Irwin Reiss, Ralph Theo Schermuly
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1084-1094; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00018215 Published 30 September 2015
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  • Tuberculosis

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      Biomarkers for risk of developing active tuberculosis in contacts of TB patients: a prospective cohort study
      Niaina Rakotosamimanana, Vincent Richard, Vaomalala Raharimanga, Brigitte Gicquel, T. Mark Doherty, Alimuddin Zumla, Voahangy Rasolofo Razanamparany
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1095-1103; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00263-2015 Published 30 September 2015
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      Tuberculosis associates with both airflow obstruction and low lung function: BOLD results
      André F.S. Amaral, Sonia Coton, Bernet Kato, Wan C. Tan, Michael Studnicka, Christer Janson, Thorarinn Gislason, David Mannino, Eric D. Bateman, Sonia Buist, Peter G.J. Burney the BOLD Collaborative Research Group
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1104-1112; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02325-2014 Published 30 September 2015
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  • Interstitial and orphan lung disease

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      Comorbidities in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients: a systematic literature review
      Ganesh Raghu, Valeria C. Amatto, Jürgen Behr, Susanne Stowasser
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1113-1130; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02316-2014 Published 30 September 2015
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  • Lung cancer

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      Time trends in surgery for lung cancer in France from 2005 to 2012: a nationwide study
      Marie-Catherine Morgant, Pierre-Benoit Pagès, Bastien Orsini, Pierre-Emmanuel Falcoz, Pascal-Alexandre Thomas, Françoise Le Pimpec Barthes, Marcel Dahan, Alain Bernard  for the Epithor project (French Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery)
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1131-1139; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00354-2015 Published 30 September 2015
  • Endobronchial ultrasound

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      Simulator training for endobronchial ultrasound: a randomised controlled trial
      Lars Konge, Paul Frost Clementsen, Charlotte Ringsted, Valentina Minddal, Klaus Richter Larsen, Jouke T. Annema
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1140-1149; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02352-2015 Published 30 September 2015
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  • Mechanisms of lung disease

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      Preclinical validation and imaging of Wnt-induced repair in human 3D lung tissue cultures
      Franziska E. Uhl, Sarah Vierkotten, Darcy E. Wagner, Gerald Burgstaller, Rita Costa, Ina Koch, Michael Lindner, Silke Meiners, Oliver Eickelberg, Melanie Königshoff
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1150-1166; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00183214 Published 30 September 2015
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Review

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    Potassium channels in pulmonary arterial hypertension
    Olivier Boucherat, Sophie Chabot, Fabrice Antigny, Frédéric Perros, Steeve Provencher, Sébastien Bonnet
    European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1167-1177; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00798-2015 Published 30 September 2015

Series

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    Pulmonary vascular resistance and compliance relationship in pulmonary hypertension
    Denis Chemla, Edmund M.T. Lau, Yves Papelier, Pierre Attal, Philippe Hervé
    European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1178-1189; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00741-2015 Published 30 September 2015

Agora

  • Research letters

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      End-of-life care in oxygen-dependent COPD and cancer: a national population-based study
      Zainab Ahmadi, Staffan Lundström, Christer Janson, Peter Strang, Margareta Emtner, David C. Currow, Magnus Ekström
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1190-1193; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00035915 Published 30 September 2015
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      Effects of ageing and smoking on pulmonary computed tomography scans using parametric response mapping
      Ilse M. Boudewijn, Dirkje S. Postma, Eef D. Telenga, Nick H.T. ten Hacken, Wim Timens, Matthijs Oudkerk, Brian D. Ross, Craig J. Galbán, Maarten van den Berge
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1193-1196; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00009415 Published 30 September 2015
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      Accuracy of chest high-resolution computed tomography in diagnosing diffuse cystic lung diseases
      Nishant Gupta, Riffat Meraj, Daniel Tanase, Laura E. James, Kuniaki Seyama, David A. Lynch, Masanori Akira, Cristopher A. Meyer, Stephen J. Ruoss, Charles D. Burger, Lisa R. Young, Khalid F. Almoosa, Srihari Veeraraghavan, Alan F. Barker, Augustine S. Lee, Daniel F. Dilling, Yoshikazu Inoue, Corey J. Cudzilo, Muhammad A. Zafar, Francis X. McCormack
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1196-1199; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00570-2015 Published 30 September 2015
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      Blood stem cell transplantation to treat cystic lung light chain deposition disease
      Aurélie Le Borgne, Grégoire Prévot, Isabelle Rouquette, Anne Huynh, Laurent Têtu, Fabrice Projetti, Miguel Carreiro, Raphaël Borie, Arnaud Jaccard, Christian Recher, Alain Didier
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1199-1202; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00577-2014 Published 30 September 2015
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      Reversal of central sleep apnoea with change from methadone to buprenorphine-naloxone: a case report
      David Wang, Nicholas Lintzeris, Stefanie Leung, Paul S. Haber, Brendon J. Yee, Ronald R. Grunstein
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1202-1205; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00051315 Published 30 September 2015
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      Linezolid tolerability in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a retrospective study
      Mathieu S. Bolhuis, Simon Tiberi, Giovanni Sotgiu, Saverio De Lorenzo, Jos G.W. Kosterink, Tjip S. van der Werf, Giovanni Battista Migliori, Jan-Willem C. Alffenaar
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1205-1207; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00606-2015 Published 30 September 2015
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      Airway bacteria and respiratory symptoms are common in ambulatory HIV-positive UK adults
      Camus Nimmo, Santino Capocci, Isobella Honeyborne, James Brown, Janey Sewell, Sarah Thurston, Margaret Johnson, Timothy D. McHugh, Marc Lipman
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1208-1211; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00361-2015 Published 30 September 2015
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      Nasal decongestant exposure in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension: a pilot study
      Swanny Perrin, David Montani, Caroline O'Connell, Sven Günther, Barbara Girerd, Laurent Savale, Christophe Guignabert, Olivier Sitbon, Gerald Simonneau, Marc Humbert, Marie-Camille Chaumais
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1211-1214; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00051-2015 Published 30 September 2015
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      Pulmonary tumour thrombotic microangiopathy: unclassifiable pulmonary hypertension?
      Neelam Kumar, Laura C. Price, M. Angeles Montero, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Athol U. Wells, S. John Wort
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1214-1217; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00052-2015 Published 30 September 2015
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      Switching to nintedanib after discontinuation of pirfenidone due to adverse events in IPF
      Katrin Milger, Nikolaus Kneidinger, Claus Neurohr, Frank Reichenberger, Jürgen Behr
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1217-1221; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00584-2015 Published 30 September 2015
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  • Correspondence

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      Pulse oximetry oxygen saturation during the 6-min walk test: a limit for stopping the test without resuming it
      Giancarlo Piaggi, Simone Gambazza, Riccardo Guarise, Manuela Piran
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1222-1223; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00670-2015 Published 30 September 2015
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      Guidance for the regulatory status of allergen extracts in clinical trials
      Zuzana Diamant, Maurits van Maaren, Roy Gerth van Wijk, Jacobus R.B.J. Brouwers, Herman Pieterse
      European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1223-1225; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00729-2015 Published 30 September 2015
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Erratum

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    “Dead space: the physiology of wasted ventilation.” H. Thomas Robertson. Eur Respir J 2015; 45: 1704–1716.
    European Respiratory Journal 46 (4) 1226; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.50137614 Published 30 September 2015
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