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01 December 2016; volume 48, issue 6

Electronic Resources

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    ERJ December Podcast: Assessing the worldwide epidemiology of sarcoidosis
    European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) E72; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.20164806.E72 Published 30 November 2016
    • ERJ Podcast

Editorials

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    Choosing and using lung function prediction equations
    Martin R. Miller
    European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1535-1537; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01744-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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    Targeting immunoglobulin E in non-atopic asthma: crossing the red line?
    Mina Gaga, Eleftherios Zervas, Marc Humbert
    European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1538-1540; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01797-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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    The womb environment shapes respiratory health in offspring: a fascinating hypothesis
    Franca Rusconi
    European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1541-1544; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01793-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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    Assessing the worldwide epidemiology of sarcoidosis: challenges and future directions
    Yvette C. Cozier
    European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1545-1548; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01819-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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    To stress or not to stress? Exercise pulmonary haemodynamic testing in systemic sclerosis
    Edmund M.T. Lau, Vivek Thakkar, Marc Humbert, Philippe Herve
    European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1549-1552; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01809-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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    Adding complexity to plexogenic arteriopathy
    Norbert F. Voelkel, Harm Jan Bogaard
    European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1553-1555; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01867-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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    Shall we call them “telomere-mediated”? Renaming the idiopathic after the cause is found
    Samantha J. Merck, Mary Armanios
    European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1556-1558; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02115-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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    Management of children with interstitial lung diseases: the difficult issue of acute exacerbations
    Annick Clement, Jacques de Blic, Ralph Epaud, Laurie Galeron, Nadia Nathan, Alice Hadchouel, Angelo Barbato, Deborah Snijders, Nural Kiper, Steve Cunningham, Matthias Griese, Andrew Bush, Nicolaus Schwerk on behalf of the chILD-EU collaboration
    European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1559-1563; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01900-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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    European reference networks: moving towards a tangible outcome of the European Union's cross-border healthcare directive?
    Nadia Kamel
    European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1564-1568; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01385-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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    The Art of Breathing
    Gary P. Anderson, Tom Kotsimbos
    European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1569-1570; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01995-2016 Published 30 November 2016

Perspective

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    Mandatory tuberculosis case notification in high tuberculosis-incidence countries: policy and practice
    Mukund Uplekar, Sachin Atre, William A. Wells, Diana Weil, Rafael Lopez, Giovanni Battista Migliori, Mario Raviglione
    European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1571-1581; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00956-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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From the Museum

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    The Art of Breathing: Inspiration
    Tom Kotsimbos, Gary P. Anderson
    European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1582-1583; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.04806-2016 Published 30 November 2016

Original Articles

  • Asthma

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      Excess medical costs in patients with asthma and the role of comorbidity
      Wenjia Chen, Larry D. Lynd, J. Mark FitzGerald, Carlo A. Marra, Robert Balshaw, Teresa To, Hamid Tavakoli, Mohsen Sadatsafavi for the Canadian Respiratory Research Network
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1584-1592; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01141-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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      Omalizumab reduces bronchial mucosal IgE and improves lung function in non-atopic asthma
      Prathap Pillai, Yih-Chih Chan, Shih-Ying Wu, Line Ohm-Laursen, Clare Thomas, Stephen R. Durham, Andrew Menzies-Gow, Raj K. Rajakulasingam, Sun Ying, Hannah J. Gould, Chris J. Corrigan
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1593-1601; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01501-2015 Published 30 November 2016
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  • Lung function

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      Global Lung Function Initiative 2012 reference equations for spirometry in the Norwegian population
      Arnulf Langhammer, Ane Johannessen, Turid L. Holmen, Hasse Melbye, Sanja Stanojevic, May B. Lund, Morten N. Melsom, Per Bakke, Philip H. Quanjer
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1602-1611; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00443-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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  • Cystic fibrosis

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      Metabolomic biomarkers predictive of early structural lung disease in cystic fibrosis
      Charles R. Esther Jr, Lidija Turkovic, Tim Rosenow, Marianne S. Muhlebach, Richard C. Boucher, Sarath Ranganathan, Stephen M. Stick on behalf of AREST CF
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1612-1621; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00524-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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  • Paediatric pulmonology

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      Pre-eclampsia and childhood asthma
      Maria C. Magnus, Siri E. Håberg, Per Magnus, Anders Engeland, Per Nafstad, Øystein Karlstad, Wenche Nystad
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1622-1630; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00673-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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  • Paediatric pulmonology and sleep

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      Impact of sleep disordered breathing on behaviour among elementary school-aged children: a cross-sectional analysis of a large community-based sample
      Dale L. Smith, David Gozal, Scott J. Hunter, Mona F. Philby, Jaeson Kaylegian, Leila Kheirandish-Gozal
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1631-1639; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00808-2016 Published 30 November 2016
  • Sleep

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      Effects of continuous positive airway pressure on energy balance regulation: a systematic review
      Ari Shechter
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1640-1657; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00689-2016 Published 30 November 2016
  • Pulmonary vascular diseases

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      Exercise pulmonary haemodynamics predict outcome in patients with systemic sclerosis
      Adriana Stamm, Stéphanie Saxer, Mona Lichtblau, Elisabeth D. Hasler, Suzana Jordan, Lars C. Huber, Konrad E. Bloch, Oliver Distler, Silvia Ulrich
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1658-1667; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00990-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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      BMPR2 mutation status influences bronchial vascular changes in pulmonary arterial hypertension
      Maria-Rosa Ghigna, Christophe Guignabert, David Montani, Barbara Girerd, Xavier Jaïs, Laurent Savale, Philippe Hervé, Vincent Thomas de Montpréville, Olaf Mercier, Olivier Sitbon, Florent Soubrier, Elie Fadel, Gérald Simonneau, Marc Humbert, Peter Dorfmüller
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1668-1681; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00464-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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  • Tuberculosis

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      Progression to tuberculosis disease increases with multiple exposures
      Robyn S. Lee, Jean-François Proulx, Dick Menzies, Marcel A. Behr
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1682-1689; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00893-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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  • Sarcoidosis

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      Sarcoidosis incidence and prevalence: a nationwide register-based assessment in Sweden
      Elizabeth V. Arkema, Johan Grunewald, Susanna Kullberg, Anders Eklund, Johan Askling
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1690-1699; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00477-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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      Sarcoidosis-related mortality in France: a multiple-cause-of-death analysis
      Yvan Jamilloux, Delphine Maucort-Boulch, Sébastien Kerever, Mathieu Gerfaud-Valentin, Christiane Broussolle, Mireille Eb, Dominique Valeyre, Pascal Seve
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1700-1709; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00457-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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  • Interstitial lung diseases

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      Telomere-related lung fibrosis is diagnostically heterogeneous but uniformly progressive
      Chad A. Newton, Kiran Batra, Jose Torrealba, Julia Kozlitina, Craig S. Glazer, Carlos Aravena, Keith Meyer, Ganesh Raghu, Harold R. Collard, Christine Kim Garcia
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1710-1720; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00308-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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      Prevalence and characteristics of TERT and TERC mutations in suspected genetic pulmonary fibrosis
      Raphael Borie, Laure Tabèze, Gabriel Thabut, Hilario Nunes, Vincent Cottin, Sylvain Marchand-Adam, Grégoire Prevot, Abdellatif Tazi, Jacques Cadranel, Herve Mal, Lidwine Wemeau-Stervinou, Anne Bergeron Lafaurie, Dominique Israel-Biet, Clement Picard, Martine Reynaud Gaubert, Stephane Jouneau, Jean-Marc Naccache, Julie Mankikian, Christelle Ménard, Jean-François Cordier, Dominique Valeyre, Marion Reocreux, Bernard Grandchamp, Patrick Revy, Caroline Kannengiesser, Bruno Crestani
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1721-1731; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02115-2015 Published 30 November 2016
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  • Lung transplantation

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      Prospective validation of right ventricular role in primary graft dysfunction after lung transplantation
      Purificación Pérez-Terán, Oriol Roca, José Rodríguez-Palomares, Juan C. Ruiz-Rodríguez, Ana Zapatero, Joaquim Gea, Joaquim Serra, Arturo Evangelista, Joan R. Masclans
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1732-1742; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02136-2015 Published 30 November 2016
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  • Lung cancer

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      Joint effect of airflow limitation and emphysema on postoperative outcomes in early-stage nonsmall cell lung cancer
      Sumin Shin, Hye Yun Park, Hyunkyung Kim, Hong Kwan Kim, Yong Soo Choi, Jhingook Kim, Sang-Won Um, Myung Jin Chung, Hojoong Kim, O Jung Kwon, Jae Ill Zo, Eliseo Guallar, Juhee Cho, Young Mog Shim
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1743-1750; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01148-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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Reviews

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    Correlates of tuberculosis risk: predictive biomarkers for progression to active tuberculosis
    Elisa Petruccioli, Thomas J. Scriba, Linda Petrone, Mark Hatherill, Daniela M. Cirillo, Simone A. Joosten, Tom H. Ottenhoff, Claudia M. Denkinger, Delia Goletti
    European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1751-1763; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01012-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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    Laboratory diagnosis of pneumonia in the molecular age
    Antoni Torres, Nelson Lee, Catia Cilloniz, Jordi Vila, Menno Van der Eerden
    European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1764-1778; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01144-2016 Published 30 November 2016

Agora

  • Research letters

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      Global Lung Function Initiative reference equations better describe a middle-aged, healthy French population than the European Community for Steel and Coal values
      Sébastien Hulo, Virginie de Broucker, Jonathan Giovannelli, Nathalie Cherot-Kornobis, Véronique Nève, Annie Sobaszek, Luc Dauchet, Jean-Louis Edmé
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1779-1781; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00606-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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      Do the Global Lung Function Initiative 2012 equations fit my population?
      Philip H. Quanjer, Sanja Stanojevic
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1782-1785; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01757-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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      Viral mimic poly-(I:C) attenuates airway epithelial T-cell suppressive capacity: implications for asthma
      Jürgen Schwarze, Paul M. Fitch, Janneke Heimweg, Claire Errington, Reina Matsuda, Harold G. de Bruin, Maarten van den Berge, Antoon J.M. van Oosterhout, Irene H. Heijink
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1785-1788; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00841-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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      Survival of Mycobacterium abscessus isolated from people with cystic fibrosis in artificially generated aerosols
      Louise A. Fletcher, Yang Chen, Paul Whitaker, Miles Denton, Daniel G. Peckham, Ian J. Clifton
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1789-1791; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00849-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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      The impact of exposure to particulate air pollution from non-anthropogenic sources on hospital admissions due to pneumonia
      Alina Vodonos, Itai Kloog, Liora Boehm, Victor Novack
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1791-1794; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01104-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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      Fatal acute respiratory distress syndrome with diffuse alveolar damage: donor lymphocyte infusion imputability?
      Colombe Saillard, Magali Bisbal, Antoine Sannini, Laurent Chow-Chine, Jean-Paul Brun, Samia Harbi, Sabine Furst, Didier Blaise, Maria Paciencia, Véronique Secq, Djamel Mokart
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1794-1796; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01130-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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      Exercise cardiac MRI-derived right ventriculo-arterial coupling ratio detects early right ventricular maladaptation in PAH
      Aaron C.W. Lin, Wendy E. Strugnell, Helen Seale, Benjamin Schmitt, Michaela Schmidt, Rachael O'Rourke, Richard E. Slaughter, Fiona Kermeen, Christian Hamilton-Craig, Norman R. Morris
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1797-1800; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01145-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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      Shorter treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: the good, the bad and the ugly
      Richard van Altena, Onno W. Akkerman, Jan-Willem C. Alffenaar, Huib A.M. Kerstjens, Cecile Magis-Escurra, Martin J. Boeree, Dick van Soolingen, Wiel C.M. de Lange, Mathieu S. Bolhuis, Wouter Hoefsloot, Gerard de Vries, Tjip S. van der Werf
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1800-1802; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01208-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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      Is delamanid a potential agent in the treatment of diseases caused by Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare?
      David Krieger, Nicolas Schönfeld, Silvan Vesenbeckh, Gudrun Bettermann, Torsten Thomas Bauer, Holger Rüssmann, Harald Mauch
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1803-1804; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01420-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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      Specific airway resistance in preschool children: why not panting after all?
      Iulia Ioan, Silvia Demoulin-Alexikova, Laurianne Coutier, Claude Bonabel, Jane Kirkby, Kim G. Nielsen, Waldemar Tomalak, Bruce Thompson, Cyril Schweitzer, Paul D. Robinson, François Marchal
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1804-1807; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01302-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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      Dichotomy in pulmonary graft-versus-host disease evident among allogeneic stem-cell transplant recipients undergoing lung transplantation
      Mark Greer, Gerdt C. Riise, Lennart Hansson, Michael Perch, Pekka Hämmäinen, Antoine Roux, Sandrine Hirschi, Elodie Lhuillier, Martine Reynaud-Gaubert, Francois Philit, Johanna Claustre, Marc Stern, Jens Gottlieb, Are M. Holm
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1807-1810; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01121-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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  • Correspondence

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      A call for uniformity in implementing the IPAF (interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features) criteria
      Adelle S. Jee, Jane F. Bleasel, Stephen Adelstein, Gregory J. Keir, Tamera J. Corte
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1811-1813; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01259-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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      A call for uniformity in implementing the IPAF (interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features) criteria
      Mary E. Strek, Justin M. Oldham, Ayodeji Adegunsoye, Rekha Vij
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1813-1814; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01841-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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      Smoke-free legislation and its impact on paediatric respiratory health
      Timor Faber, Aziz Sheikh, Jasper V. Been
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1814-1815; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01418-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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      Smoke-free legislation has potential to reduce the harmful effects of tobacco smoke exposure
      Elida Zairina
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1816; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02080-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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      Opioids and adverse outcomes in elderly chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients
      Damien Viglino, Maxime Maignan
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1817; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01610-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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      Opioids and adverse outcomes in elderly chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients
      Nicholas T. Vozoris, Denis E. O'Donnell, Sudeep S. Gill
      European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1818; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01690-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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    “Lung biopsy in interstitial lung disease: balancing the risk of surgery and diagnostic uncertainty.” Vincent Cottin. Eur Respir J 2016; 48: 1274–1277.
    European Respiratory Journal 48 (6) 1819; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.51633-2016 Published 30 November 2016
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