EDITORIALS:

A. B. Johan Groeneveld and Christina M. Vandenbroucke-Grauls

One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer: Can Herpes Simplex Virus-1 Cause Pneumonia and Acute Lung Injury?

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 865-866 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter J. Barnes

Unexpected Failure of Anti–Tumor Necrosis Factor Therapy in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 866-867 [Full Text] [PDF]  

PULMONARY PERSPECTIVE:

Steven D. Nathan, Paul W. Noble, and Rubin M. Tuder

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and Pulmonary Hypertension: Connecting the Dots

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 875-880. First published online January 25 2007 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200608-1153CC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PULMONARY AND CRITICAL CARE UPDATES:

Sarita Dubey and Charles A. Powell

Update in Lung Cancer 2006

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 868-874 [Full Text] [PDF]  

ARTICLES:

A. Asthma and Allergy:

Natalie C. Battle, Shweta Choudhry, Hui-Ju Tsai, Celeste Eng, Gunjan Kumar, Kenneth B. Beckman, Mariam Naqvi, Kelley Meade, H. George Watson, Michael LeNoir, and Esteban González Burchard on behalf of the SAGE (Study of African Americans, Asthma, Genes, and Environments) Investigators

Ethnicity-specific Gene–Gene Interaction between IL-13 and IL-4R among African Americans with Asthma

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 881-887. First published online February 15 2007 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200607-992OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

Christine L. M. Joseph, Edward Peterson, Suzanne Havstad, Christine C. Johnson, Sarah Hoerauf, Sonja Stringer, Wanda Gibson-Scipio, Dennis R. Ownby, Jennifer Elston-Lafata, Unto Pallonen, and Victor Strecher for the Asthma in Adolescents Research Team

A Web-based, Tailored Asthma Management Program for Urban African-American High School Students

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 888-895. First published online February 8 2007 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200608-1244OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

Harsha H. Kariyawasam, Maxine Aizen, Julia Barkans, Douglas S. Robinson, and A. Barry Kay

Remodeling and Airway Hyperresponsiveness but Not Cellular Inflammation Persist after Allergen Challenge in Asthma

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 896-904. First published online February 1 2007 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200609-1260OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Metka Kodric, Ajay N. Shah, Leonardo M. Fabbri, and Marco Confalonieri

An Investigation of Airway Acidification in Asthma Using Induced Sputum: A Study of Feasibility and Correlation

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 905-910. First published online February 8 2007 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200607-940OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

Ariel Munitz, Ido Bachelet, Fred D. Finkelman, Marc E. Rothenberg, and Francesca Levi-Schaffer

CD48 Is Critically Involved in Allergic Eosinophilic Airway Inflammation

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 911-918. First published online February 8 2007 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200605-695OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

Maria Tsoumakidou, William Elston, Jie Zhu, Zhuo Wang, Elizabeth Gamble, Nikos M. Siafakas, Neil C. Barnes, and Peter K. Jeffery

Cigarette Smoking Alters Bronchial Mucosal Immunity in Asthma

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 919-925. First published online February 15 2007 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200607-908OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

B. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease:

Stephen I. Rennard, Charles Fogarty, Steven Kelsen, William Long, Joe Ramsdell, James Allison, Donald Mahler, Constantine Saadeh, Thomas Siler, Phillip Snell, Phillip Korenblat, William Smith, Mitchell Kaye, Michael Mandel, Charles Andrews, Rachakonda Prabhu, James F. Donohue, Rosemary Watt, Kim Hung Lo, Rozsa Schlenker-Herceg, Elliot S. Barnathan, and John Murray on behalf of the COPD Investigators

The Safety and Efficacy of Infliximab in Moderate to Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 926-934. First published online February 8 2007 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200607-995OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

C. Critical Care:

Charles-Edouard Luyt, Alain Combes, Claire Deback, Marie-Hélène Aubriot-Lorton, Ania Nieszkowska, Jean-Louis Trouillet, Frédérique Capron, Henri Agut, Claude Gibert, and Jean Chastre

Herpes Simplex Virus Lung Infection in Patients Undergoing Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 935-942. First published online January 18 2007 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200609-1322OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

D. Cystic Fibrosis:

Stephanie D. Davis, Lynn A. Fordham, Alan S. Brody, Terry L. Noah, George Z. Retsch-Bogart, Bahjat F. Qaqish, Bonnie C. Yankaskas, Robin C. Johnson, and Margaret W. Leigh

Computed Tomography Reflects Lower Airway Inflammation and Tracks Changes in Early Cystic Fibrosis

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 943-950. First published online February 15 2007 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200603-343OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

Isabelle Sermet-Gaudelus, Jean Claude Souberbielle, Jean Charles Ruiz, Stephanie Vrielynck, Blandine Heuillon, Imrana Azhar, Aline Cazenave, Ethel Lawson-Body, Frédérique Chedevergne, and Gérard Lenoir

Low Bone Mineral Density in Young Children with Cystic Fibrosis

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 951-957. First published online February 1 2007 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200606-776OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

E. Pulmonary Infections:

Ulrich A. Maus, Myriam Backi, Christine Winter, Mrigank Srivastava, Matthias K. Schwarz, Thomas Rückle, James C. Paton, David Briles, Matthias Mack, Tobias Welte, Regina Maus, Rainer M. Bohle, Werner Seeger, Christian Rommel, Emilio Hirsch, Jürgen Lohmeyer, and Klaus T. Preissner

Importance of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase in the Host Defense against Pneumococcal Infection

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 958-966. First published online February 22 2007 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200610-1533OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

CORRESPONDENCE:

Botond Banfi

A Novel Host Defense System of Airways Is Defective in Cystic Fibrosis: Update

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 967 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pedro Giavina-Bianchi, Edilamara Oliveira, and Jorge Kalil

Specific IgE against Recombinant Allergens in Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 967a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Reto Crameri and Richard Kraemer

Specific IgE against Recombinant Allergens in Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 967b-968 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Liesbeth M. Kager and Marcus J. Schultz

Computer-driven Protocolized Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 968-969 [Full Text] [PDF]  

François Lellouche and Laurent Brochard

Computer-driven Protocolized Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 969 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Edward Abraham

Erratum: "In the Beginning" of COPD: Is Evolution Important?

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 969a [Full Text] [PDF]  

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