EDITORIALS:

Richard Casaburi

Limitation to Exercise Tolerance in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Look to the Muscles of Ambulation

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 409-410 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Moira K.B. Whyte

Genetic Factors in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Transforming Growth Factor-ß Implicated at Last

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 410-411 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Charles M. Nolan

Isoniazid for Latent Tuberculosis Infection: Approaching 40 and Reaching Its Prime

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 412-413 [Full Text] [PDF]  

John P. Kinsella

Meconium Aspiration Syndrome: Is Surfactant Lavage the Answer?

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 413-414 [Full Text] [PDF]  

OCCASIONAL ESSAYS:

Jerome S. Brody

"What We've Got Here Is a Failure to Communicate"

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 415-416 [Full Text] [PDF]  

CLINICAL COMMENTARY:

Kenneth W. Tsang and Wah K. Lam

Management of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: The Hong Kong University Experience

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 417-424 [Full Text] [PDF]  

ARTICLES:

A. Exercise COPD and Fatique:

Didier Saey, Richard Debigaré, Pierre LeBlanc, M. Jeffery Mador, Claude H. Côté, Jean Jobin, and François Maltais

Contractile Leg Fatigue after Cycle Exercise: A Factor Limiting Exercise in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 425-430. First published online April 24 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200208-856OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

B. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis:

Antoni Xaubet, Alejandra Marin-Arguedas, Sergio Lario, Julio Ancochea, Ferran Morell, Juan Ruiz-Manzano, Eulogio Rodriguez-Becerra, Jose M. Rodriguez-Arias, Pablo Iñigo, Sergi Sanz, Josep M. Campistol, Joaquim Mullol, and Cesar Picado

Transforming Growth Factor-ß₁ Gene Polymorphisms Are Associated with Disease Progression in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 431-435. First published online May 13 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200210-1165OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eric S. White, Victor J. Thannickal, Shannon L. Carskadon, Emily G. Dickie, Donna L. Livant, Sonja Markwart, Galen B. Toews, and Douglas A. Arenberg

Integrin ₄ß₁ Regulates Migration across Basement Membranes by Lung Fibroblasts: A Role for Phosphatase and Tensin Homologue Deleted on Chromosome 10

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 436-442. First published online June 5 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200301-041OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

C. Tuberculosis:

Philip A. LoBue and Kathleen S. Moser

Use of Isoniazid for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in a Public Health Clinic

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 443-447. First published online May 13 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200303-390OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christian Lienhardt, Katherine Fielding, Jackson Sillah, Abdulaye Tunkara, Simon Donkor, Kebba Manneh, David Warndorff, Keith P. McAdam, and Steve Bennett

Risk Factors for Tuberculosis Infection in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Contact Study in The Gambia

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 448-455. First published online May 28 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200212-1483OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. Meconium Aspiration:

Peter A. Dargaville, John F. Mills, Bevan M. Headley, Yuen Chan, Lee Coleman, Peter M. Loughnan, and Colin J. Morley

Therapeutic Lung Lavage in the Piglet Model of Meconium Aspiration Syndrome

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 456-463. First published online April 24 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200301-121OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

E. Snoring and Schooling in Children:

Michael S. Urschitz, Anke Guenther, Esther Eggebrecht, Judith Wolff, Pilar M. Urschitz-Duprat, Martin Schlaud, and Christian F. Poets

Snoring, Intermittent Hypoxia and Academic Performance in Primary School Children

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 464-468. First published online May 28 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200212-1397OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

F. Hypoxia and Cognition:

Richard C. Li, Barry W. Row, Evelyne Gozal, Leila Kheirandish, Qiang Fan, Kenneth R. Brittian, Shang Z. Guo, Leroy R. Sachleben, Jr., and David Gozal

Cyclooxygenase 2 and Intermittent Hypoxia-induced Spatial Deficits in the Rat

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 469-475. First published online May 28 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200211-1264OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

G. Polymorphism and Septic Shock:

Bernhard M. Schaaf, Florian Boehmke, Hamed Esnaashari, Ulrike Seitzer, Henning Kothe, Matthias Maass, Peter Zabel, and Klaus Dalhoff

Pneumococcal Septic Shock Is Associated with the Interleukin-10–1082 Gene Promoter Polymorphism

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 476-480. First published online May 13 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200210-1164OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

H. Vasopressin and Septic Shock:

Qinghua Sun, George Dimopoulos, Duc Nam Nguyen, Zizhi Tu, Nathalie Nagy, Anh Dung Hoang, Peter Rogiers, Daniel De Backer, and Jean-Louis Vincent

Low-Dose Vasopressin in the Treatment of Septic Shock in Sheep

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 481-486. First published online June 5 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200205-447OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

I. Pulmonary Hypertension:

Elisabeth Marcos, Serge Adnot, Minh Hien Pham, Anne Nosjean, Bernadette Raffestin, Michel Hamon, and Saadia Eddahibi

Serotonin Transporter Inhibitors Protect against Hypoxic Pulmonary Hypertension

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 487-493. First published online May 28 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200210-1212OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. Pulmonary Function and Physical Activity:

Margit Pelkonen, Irma-Leena Notkola, Timo Lakka, Hannu O. Tukiainen, Paula Kivinen, and Aulikki Nissinen

Delaying Decline in Pulmonary Function with Physical Activity: A 25-Year Follow-up

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 494-499. First published online June 5 2003 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200208-954OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CORRESPONDENCE:

Peter T. Macklem

The Molecular–Clinical Divorce

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 500 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dan Stanescu

Identifying Smokers at Risk of COPD and GOLD

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 500 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Giovanni Vento, Piero Giuseppe Matassa, Ettore Capoluongo, Luca Tortorolo, Costantino Romagnoli, Franco Ameglio, Patrik Lassus, and Sture Andersson

Glucocorticoids in Preterm Infants and Discrepancies of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 168: 501-502 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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