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• Editorial

  • ·Assisted ventilation during sleep: Improving respiration or sleep or both?

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    Bengt Midgren

    

• Original Articles

  • ·Impact of volume targeting on efficacy of bi-level non-invasive ventilation and sleep in obesity-hypoventilation

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    Jean-Paul Janssens, Marie Metzger, Emilia Sforza

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  • ·Automatic air-leak compensation in neuromuscular patients: A feasibility study

    Page :173-179

    David Orlikowski, Ghassane Mroue, Helene Prigent, Catherine Moulin, Mikaelle Bohic, Maria Ruquet, Jean Claude Raphael, Djillali Annane, Frederic Lofaso

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  • ·Echocardiography and brain natriuretic peptide as prognostic indicators in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

    Page :180-186

    Jin Woo Song, Jae-Kwan Song, Dong Soon Kim

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  • ·Oral bacteria – The missing link to ambiguous findings of exhaled nitrogen oxides in cystic fibrosis

    Page :187-193

    Wilhelm Zetterquist, Helena Marteus, Pia Kalm-Stephens, Elisabeth Näs, Lennart Nordvall, Marie Johannesson, Kjell Alving

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  • ·Health-related quality of life predicts onset of asthma in a longitudinal population study

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    Mai Leander, Agneta Cronqvist, Christer Janson, Monica Uddenfeldt, Anna Rask-Andersen

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  • ·Tracheostomy and related host–patogen interaction are associated with airway inflammation as characterized by tracheal aspirate analysis

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    Patrizia Pignatti, Antonella Balestrino, Christian Herr, Robert Bals, Dania Moretto, Massimo Corradi, Rossella Alinovi, Monica Delmastro, Claus Vogelmeier, Stefano Nava, Gianna Moscato, Bruno Balbi

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  • ·A model of quality assessment in patients on long-term oxygen therapy

    Page :209-215

    Torbjörn Gustafson, Kerstin Löfdahl, Kerstin Ström

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  • ·Determinants and impact of fatigue in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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    Ramin Baghai-Ravary, Jennifer K. Quint, James J.P. Goldring, John R. Hurst, Gavin C. Donaldson, Jadwiga A. Wedzicha

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  • ·Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and hospitalizations for pneumonia in a US cohort

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    David M. Mannino, Kourtney J. Davis, Victor A. Kiri

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  • ·Telomere shortening in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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    Joyce M.J. Houben, Evi M. Mercken, Hans B. Ketelslegers, Aalt Bast, Emiel F. Wouters, Geja J. Hageman, Annemie M.W.J. Schols

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  • ·Acute care among asthma patients using budesonide/formoterol or fluticasone propionate/salmeterol

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    Lucie Blais, Marie-France Beauchesne, Amélie Forget

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  • ·Real life evaluation of intravenous antibiotic treatment in a paediatric cystic fibrosis centre: Outcome of home therapy is not inferior

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    M. Proesmans, Lieve Heyns, Philip Moons, Trudy Havermans, Kris De Boeck

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  • ·Modulation of operational lung volumes with the use of salbutamol in COPD patients accomplishing upper limbs exercise tests

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    Elias F. Porto, Antonio A.M. Castro, Oliver Nascimento, Rosângela C. Oliveira, Fábio Cardoso, José R. Jardim

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  • ·A quick and easy method of measuring the hypercapnic ventilatory response in patients with COPD

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    Annabel H. Nickol, Helen Dunroy, Michael I. Polkey, Anita Simonds, Jeremy Cordingley, Douglas R. Corfield, Mary J. Morrell

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  • ·Infliximab therapy rescues cyclophosphamide failure in severe central nervous system sarcoidosis

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    Manica Sodhi, Karla Pearson, Eric S. White, Daniel A. Culver

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  • ·Effect of weight change on asthma-related health outcomes in patients with severe or difficult-to-treat asthma

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    Tmirah Haselkorn, James E. Fish, Bradley E. Chipps, Dave P. Miller, Hubert Chen, Scott T. Weiss

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  • ·Genetic variation of IL13 as a risk factor of reduced lung function in children and adolescents: A cross-sectional population-based study in Korea

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    Heung-Woo Park, Jong-Eun Lee, Se-Hoon Kim, Yoon-Keun Kim, Kyung-Up Min, You-Young Kim, Sang-Heon Cho

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  • ·Body mass index, respiratory function and bronchial hyperreactivity in allergic rhinitis and asthma

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    Giorgio Ciprandi, Angela Pistorio, Mariangela Tosca, Maria Rosaria Ferraro, Ignazio Cirillo

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  • ·The effect of montelukast on exhaled nitric oxide of alveolar and bronchial origin in inhaled corticosteroid-treated asthma

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    Leandro G. Fritscher, Marcelo T. Rodrigues, Noe Zamel, Kenneth R. Chapman

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  • ·Suppressed signal transduction in the bronchial epithelium of patients with systemic sclerosis

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    Maria Sehlstedt, Grethe Neumann Andersen, Kenneth Nilsson, Anders Blomberg, Lucia Mincheva-Nilsson, Anders Waldenström, Solbritt Rantapää-Dahlqvist, Thomas Sandström

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  • ·Epidemiology of community-acquired pneumonia in older adults: A population-based study

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    Angel Vila-Corcoles, Olga Ochoa-Gondar, Teresa Rodriguez-Blanco, Xavier Raga-Luria, Frederic Gomez-Bertomeu, EPIVAC Study Group a

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  • ·Impact of pulmonary hypertension on gas exchange and exercise capacity in patients with pulmonary fibrosis

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    Sven Gläser, Oliver Noga, Beate Koch, Christian F. Opitz, Bernd Schmidt, Bettina Temmesfeld, Marcus Dörr, Ralf Ewert, Christoph Schäper

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