EDITORIALS:

Donatus Dreher and Laurent P. Nicod

Dendritic Cells in the Mycobacterial Granuloma Are Involved in Acquired Immunity

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2002; 165: 1577-1578. [Full Text]  

Talmadge E. King, Jr.

Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia and Systemic Sclerosis

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2002; 165: 1578-1579. [Full Text]  

Romain Pauwels

Inhaled Glucocorticosteroids and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: How Full Is the Glass?

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2002; 165: 1579-1580. [Full Text]  

STATE OF THE ART:

Edward D. Chan, Donald V. Morales, Carolyn H. Welsh, Michael T. McDermott, and Marvin I. Schwarz

Calcium Deposition with or without Bone Formation in the Lung

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2002; 165: 1654-1669. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

CRITICAL CARE PERSPECTIVE:

Rolf D. Hubmayr

Perspective on Lung Injury and Recruitment: A Skeptical Look at the Opening and Collapse Story

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2002; 165: 1647-1653. [Full Text]  

ARTICLES:

A. Mycobacterial Disease:

Tomoyoshi Tsuchiya, Kingo Chida, Takafumi Suda, Eveline E. Schneeberger, and Hirotoshi Nakamura

Dendritic Cell Involvement in Pulmonary Granuloma Formation Elicited by Bacillus Calmette-Guérin in Rats

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2002; 165: 1640-1646. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

B. Interstitial Lung Disease:

Demosthenes Bouros, Athol U. Wells, Andrew G. Nicholson, Thomas V. Colby, Vlasis Polychronopoulos, Panos Pantelidis, Patricia L. Haslam, Dimitris A. Vassilakis, Carol M. Black, and Roland M. du Bois

Histopathologic Subsets of Fibrosing Alveolitis in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis and Their Relationship to Outcome

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2002; 165: 1581-1586. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Reda E. Girgis, Manish K. Gugnani, Judith Abrams, and Maureen D. Mayes

Partitioning of Alveolar and Conducting Airway Nitric Oxide in Scleroderma Lung Disease

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2002; 165: 1587-1591. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

C. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease:

Keith L. Hattotuwa, Mariusz J. Gizycki, Tareq W. Ansari, Peter K. Jeffery, and Neil C. Barnes

The Effects of Inhaled Fluticasone on Airway Inflammation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Double-Blind, Placebo-controlled Biopsy Study

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2002; 165: 1592-1596. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

D. Asthma:

Aaron Deykin, Anthony F. Massaro, Jeffrey M. Drazen, and Elliot Israel

Exhaled Nitric Oxide as a Diagnostic Test for Asthma: Online versus Offline Techniques and Effect of Flow Rate

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2002; 165: 1597-1601. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

E. Airway Biology:

Shannon A. Bryan, Peter J. Jose, Joanna R. Topping, Robert Wilhelm, Carol Soderberg, Denis Kertesz, Peter J. Barnes, Timothy J. Williams, Trevor T. Hansel, and Ian Sabroe

Responses of Leukocytes to Chemokines in Whole Blood and Their Antagonism by Novel CC-Chemokine Receptor 3 Antagonists

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2002; 165: 1602-1609. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

F. Air Pollution:

Paulo H. N. Saldiva, Robert W. Clarke, Brent A. Coull, Rebecca C. Stearns, Joy Lawrence, G. G. Krishna Murthy, Edgar Diaz, Petros Koutrakis, Helen Suh, Akira Tsuda, and John J. Godleski

Lung Inflammation Induced by Concentrated Ambient Air Particles Is Related to Particle Composition

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2002; 165: 1610-1617. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Online Data Supplement]  

G. Pediatric Lung Disease:

France Gauvin, Jacques Lacroix, Marie-Claude Guertin, François Proulx, Catherine Ann Farrell, Albert Moghrabi, Pierre Lebel, and Clément Dassa

Reproducibility of Blind Protected Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Mechanically Ventilated Children

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2002; 165: 1618-1623. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Online Data Supplement]  

H. Sleep-disordered Breathing:

Lena Lavie, Holger Kraiczi, Aya Hefetz, Haifa Ghandour, Ana Perelman, Jan Hedner, and Peretz Lavie

Plasma Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Sleep Apnea Syndrome: Effects of Nasal Continuous Positive Air Pressure Treatment

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2002; 165: 1624-1628. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Online Data Supplement]  

I. Lung Transplantation:

Kelan G. Tantisira, David M. Systrom, and Leo C. Ginns

An Elevated Breathing Reserve Index at the Lactate Threshold Is a Predictor of Mortality in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis Awaiting Lung Transplantation

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2002; 165: 1629-1633. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

J. Critical Care:

Le Feng Wang, Milan Patel, Habib Moshref Razavi, Sean Weicker, Mariamma G. Joseph, David G. McCormack, and Sanjay Mehta

Role of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase in Pulmonary Microvascular Protein Leak in Murine Sepsis

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2002; 165: 1634-1639. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

CORRESPONDENCE:

Gillian L. Dean, Deborah I. Williams, Duncan R. Churchill, Martin J. Fisher, Marie Wislez, and Jacques Cadranel

Transient clinical deterioration in hiv patients with Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia after starting highly active antiretroviral therapy: Another case of immune restoration inflammatory syndrome

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2002; 165: 1670. [Full Text]  

Eric Demoncheaux, David Crowther, Alan C. Spivey, Tim W. Higenbottam, Peter J. Barnes, and Sergei A. Kharitonov

Monitoring reactive nitrogen species in biological milieu: A difficult journey

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2002; 165: 1670-a-1671. [Full Text]  

William D. Bennett, Abderrahim Nemmar, Hubert Vanbilloen, Marc F. Hoylaerts, Peter H. M. Hoet, Alfons Verbruggen, and Benoit Nemery

Rapid translocation of nanoparticles from the lung to the bloodstream?

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2002; 165: 1671-1672. [Full Text]  

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