European Respiratory Topic

Volume 1 Number 4

December 1995
CONTENTS

EDITORIALS

European Respiratory Topic: The Future

101

Health care workers and tuberculosis

101

Viruses and childhood asthma

101

Do asthmatics benefit from home PEF monitoring?

102

Treatment of venous thromboembolism: new perspectives

103

Chemotherapy or best supportive care in non-resectable non-small-cell lung cancer

104

TOPICS

All documented recent tuberculosis infections must be treated with isoniazid

106

Health care workers can be protected from tuberculosis infection

107

Interobserver variability in the X-ray diagnosis of pneumonia

108

Risk of osteoporosis with use of oral and inhaled corticosteroids in asthma and COPD

109

Posterior subcapsular cataract and inhaled corticosteroid therapy

110

Allergen immunotherapy in asthma

111

Efficacy and cost effectiveness of inhaled steroids in asthma in a developing country

112

Role of viral exacerbations in childhood asthma

113

Microbial inciters of acute asthma in urban Nigerian children

114

Asthma and immunoglobulin E antibodies after Respiratory Syncitial virus bronchiolitis

115

Atelectasis cannot explain fever after heart surgery

116

Pertussis infection in adults with persistent cough

117

Home PEF monitoring: when should action be taken?

118

Home PEF monitoring is not needed for every asthmatic patient

119

The role of an asthma education programme in the control of the disease

120

Is there any change in the recommendations for the early treatment of venous thromboembolism?

121

Is it worth vaccinating healthy working adults against influenza?

122

Can we predict the outcome of an acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis?

123

Are antibiotics beneficial in patients with COPD exacerbations?

124

Antibiotics for hospitalized patients with community-acquired lower respiratory tract infection: i.v. or oral?

125

Is the effect of a stent in the bronchial tree measurable?

126

Predictors of prognosis in patients with severe idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

127

HOW TO USE THIS ISSUE

Members of the editorial board have selected papers for their topicality from a wide range of journals and prepared the editorial comment. To read quickly through the issue, read the editorial comments highlighted on each page, assisted by the important messages. For a complete appraisal of individual papers then of course read the whole page.

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