European Respiratory Topic

Volume 3 Number 2

December 1997
CONTENTS

EDITORIALS

Evidence against extending the use of oxygen treatment to COPD with moderate hypoxaemia

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TOPICS

Nocturnal desaturations and pulmonary hypertension in COPD patients with border-line hypoxaemia

33

Long-term oxygen in patients with border-line hypoxaemia

34

Air pollution and daily admissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in six European cities: results from the APHEA project

35

Referral policy for lung transplantation

36

Bed side presentations: out of date?

37

An analysis of decisions by European general practitioners to admit hospital patients with lower respiratory tract infections

38

Infections by Chlamydia pneumoniae in elderly people

39

Retreatment tuberculosis cases

40

Community acquired pneumonia: aetiology and usefulness of severity criteria on admission

41

A comparison of beclomethasone, salmeterol and placebo in children with asthma

42

Dose titration of nebulized budesonide in young children

43

Airway inflammation during severe exacerbation of asthma: influence of prednisone treatment

44

Hospitalization patterns in severe acute asthma in children

45

Noncompliance and treatment failure in children with asthma

46

The effect of drug therapy on long-term outcome of childhood asthma: a possible preview of the international guidelines

47

Hospital admissions for asthma in East London: association with characteristics of local general practices, prescribing and population

48

Inhalation drug delivery from seven different spacer devices

49

Prognosis in lung cancer: physicians' opinions compared with outcome and a predictive model

50

Bacterial colonization of distal airways

51

Prevention, the best tool against cancer?

52

Are adolescent females more susceptible than males to the detrimental effects of active smoking?

53

Are out-patients with cardiovascular disease at higher risk of complications when using transdermal nicotine substitution?

54

CASE REPORT

Bronchial screw in a retardate

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HOW TO USE THIS ISSUE

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