EDITORIALS:

Brian P. Kavanagh

Lung Recruitment in Real Time: Learning Was Never So Easy

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1585-1586 [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. Barry Kay and Andrew Menzies-Gow

Eosinophils and Interleukin-5: The Debate Continues

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1586-1587 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pierre P. Massion and David P. Carbone

From Clinical and Pathologic to Molecular Staging of Lung Cancer

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1587-1588 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert M. Strieter

To Clot or Not to Clot, That Is the Question in Pulmonary Fibrosis

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1589-1590 [Full Text] [PDF]  

PULMONARY PERSPECTIVE:

John E. Heffner, Kristin Highland, and Lee K. Brown

A Meta-analysis Derivation of Continuous Likelihood Ratios for Diagnosing Pleural Fluid Exudates

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1591-1599 [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

STATE OF THE ART:

Vuokko L. Kinnula and James D. Crapo

Superoxide Dismutases in the Lung and Human Lung Diseases

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1600-1619 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ARTICLES:

A. Ventilator-induced Lung Injury:

Jeffrey M. Halter, Jay M. Steinberg, Henry J. Schiller, Monica DaSilva, Louis A. Gatto, Steve Landas, and Gary F. Nieman

Positive End-Expiratory Pressure after a Recruitment Maneuver Prevents Both Alveolar Collapse and Recruitment/Derecruitment

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1620-1626. First published online February 25 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200205-435OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

Won-Il Choi, Deborah A. Quinn, Kwon Moo Park, Ramzi K. Moufarrej, Behrouz Jafari, Olga Syrkina, Joseph V. Bonventre, and Charles A. Hales

Systemic Microvascular Leak in an In Vivo Rat Model of Ventilator-induced Lung Injury

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1627-1632. First published online March 27 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200210-1216OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

B. Atelectasis and Lung Injury:

Michelle Duggan, Conán L. McCaul, Patrick J. McNamara, Doreen Engelberts, Cameron Ackerley, and Brian P. Kavanagh

Atelectasis Causes Vascular Leak and Lethal Right Ventricular Failure in Uninjured Rat Lungs

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1633-1640. First published online March 27 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200210-1215OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

C. Sepsis:

Edward R. Sherwood, Cheng Y. Lin, Weike Tao, Christopher A. Hartmann, Jay E. Dujon, Andrew J. French, and Tushar K. Varma

ß2 Microglobulin Knockout Mice Are Resistant to Lethal Intraabdominal Sepsis

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1641-1649. First published online March 5 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200208-950OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. Aspiration Pneumonia:

Ali A. El-Solh, Celestino Pietrantoni, Abid Bhat, Alan T. Aquilina, Mifue Okada, Vikas Grover, and Nancy Gifford

Microbiology of Severe Aspiration Pneumonia in Institutionalized Elderly

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1650-1654. First published online April 10 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200212-1543OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

E. Antibody Therapy in Asthma:

Johan C. Kips, Brian J. O'Connor, Stephen J. Langley, Ashley Woodcock, Huib A. M. Kerstjens, Dirkje S. Postma, Mel Danzig, Francis Cuss, and Romain A. Pauwels

Effect of SCH55700, a Humanized Anti-Human Interleukin-5 Antibody, in Severe Persistent Asthma: A Pilot Study

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1655-1659. First published online March 20 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200206-525OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

F. Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma:

George Pyrgos, Trisevgeni Kapsali, Solbert Permutt, and Alkis Togias

Absence of Deep Inspiration–induced Bronchoprotection against Inhaled Allergen

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1660-1663 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

G. Muscle and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease:

Annabelle Couillard, François Maltais, Didier Saey, Richard Debigaré, Annie Michaud, Christelle Koechlin, Pierre LeBlanc, and Christian Préfaut

Exercise-induced Quadriceps Oxidative Stress and Peripheral Muscle Dysfunction in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1664-1669. First published online April 2 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200209-1028OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

H. Lung Cancer:

Michael B. Wallace, Mark Block, Brenda J. Hoffman, Robert H. Hawes, Gerard Silvestri, Carolyn E. Reed, Michael Mitas, James Ravenel, Mostafa Fraig, Scott Miller, Edward T. Jones, and Alice Boylan

Detection of Telomerase Expression in Mediastinal Lymph Nodes of Patients with Lung Cancer

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1670-1675. First published online February 20 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200211-1297OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Roderick J. Phillips, Marie D. Burdick, Marin Lutz, John A. Belperio, Michael P. Keane, and Robert M. Strieter

The Stromal Derived Factor–1/CXCL12–CXC Chemokine Receptor 4 Biological Axis in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer Metastases

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1676-1686. First published online March 5 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200301-071OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

I. Interstitial Lung Disease:

Hajime Fujimoto, Esteban Cesar Gabazza, Osamu Hataji, Hisamichi Yuda, Corina Nayade D'Alessandro-Gabazza, Mariko Nakano, Omar Enrique Franco, Tatsuya Hayashi, Koji Suzuki, Yukihiko Adachi, and Osamu Taguchi

Thrombin-activatable Fibrinolysis Inhibitor and Protein C Inhibitor in Interstitial Lung Disease

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1687-1694. First published online February 20 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200208-905OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

J. Sarcoidosis:

Agata Gibejova, Frantisek Mrazek, Daniela Subrtova, Veronika Sekerova, Jaroslava Szotkowska, Vitezslav Kolek, Roland M. du Bois, and Martin Petrek

Expression of Macrophage Inflammatory Protein-3ß/CCL19 in Pulmonary Sarcoidosis

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1695-1703. First published online March 5 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200205-487OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

K. Bleomycin Lung Injury:

Kazuyoshi Suga, Yue Yuan, Nobuhiko Ogasawara, Toshinobu Tsukuda, and Naofumi Matsunaga

Altered Clearance of Gadolinium Diethylenetriaminepentaacetic Acid Aerosol from Bleomycin-injured Dog Lungs: Initial Observations

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1704-1710. First published online February 20 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200207-665OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

L. Developing Lung:

Christiane E. L. Dammann, Heber C. Nielsen, and Kermit L. Carraway, III

Role of Neuregulin-1ß in the Developing Lung

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1711-1716. First published online March 27 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200205-468OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

CORRESPONDENCE:

Bruno Priolet, Dominique Robert, Roy G. Brower, Michael A. Matthay, and Gordon R. Bernard

Questions about ARDSNetwork trial of low tidal volume

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1717 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patricio Escalante, Philip T. Cagle, Edward D. Chan, and Carlyne Cool

Nitric oxide and tuberculosis infection

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1718 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jean-Baptiste Stern, Hervé Mal, and Steve G. Peters

Mechanical ventilation in patients with pulmonary fibrosis

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1718-1719 [Full Text]  

Ole Kirk

Erratum: Tuberculosis in HIV patients treated with HAART

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1719 [Full Text]  

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