Issue 1/2015
Content (45 Articles)
Influence of heat and moisture exchanger use on measurements performed with manovacuometer and respirometer in healthy adults
Jeanette Janaina Jaber Lucato, Thiago Marraccini Nogueira da Cunha, Sara Solange Oliveira Costa Rocha, Fernanda Maria Palmieri de Carvalho, Daniele Cristina Botega, Jamili Anbar Torquato, Ana Cristina Gimenes, Renato Fraga Righetti
Particulate matters from diesel heavy duty trucks exhaust versus cigarettes emissions: a new educational antismoking instrument
Cinzia De Marco, Ario Alberto Ruprecht, Paolo Pozzi, Elena Munarini, Anna Chiara Ogliari, Roberto Mazza, Roberto Boffi
Mental health, serum biomarkers and survival in severe COPD: a pilot study
Christian Zilz, Stefan H. Blaas, Michael Pfeifer, Rudolf A. Jörres, Stephan Budweiser
The assessment of new drugs for asthma and COPD: a Delphi study examining the perspectives of Italian payers and clinicians
Silvia Sommariva, Aureliano P. Finch, Claudio Jommi
Health-related quality of life measurement in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: review of the 2009-2014 literature
Fabio Arpinelli, Mauro Carone, Gioacchino Riccardo, Giorgio Bertolotti
Differentiation of respiratory epithelium in a 3-dimensional co-culture with fibroblasts embedded in fibrin gel
Stefanie Albers, Anja Lena Thiebes, Kai L. Gessenich, Stefan Jockenhoevel, Christian G. Cornelissen
Acceptability and preference of three inhalation devices assessed by the Handling Questionnaire in asthma and COPD patients
Roberto W. Dal Negro, Massimiliano Povero
Reviewer acknowledgement 2015
Fernando De Benedetto, Claudio F. Donner, Claudio M. Sanguinetti
The BODECOST Index (BCI): a composite index for assessing the impact of COPD in real life
Roberto W. Dal Negro, Bartolome R. Celli
Erratum to: Particulate matters from diesel heavy duty trucks exhaust versus cigarettes emissions: a new educational antismoking instrument
Cinzia De Marco, Ario Alberto Ruprecht, Paolo Pozzi, Elena Munarini, Anna Chiara Ogliari, Roberto Mazza, Roberto Boffi
Does homeopathic medicine have a preventive effect on respiratory tract infections? A real life observational study
Gianfranco Maria Beghi, Antonio Maria Morselli-Labate
Chronic respiratory symptoms and associated factors among cement factory workers in Dejen town, Amhara regional state, Ethiopia, 2015
Zemichael Gizaw, Bamlaku Yifred, Takele Tadesse
COPD heterogeneity: implications for management
Miriam Barrecheguren, Marc Miravitlles
Placement of self-expandable bifurcated metallic stents without use of fluoroscopic and guidewire guidance to palliate central airway lesions
Cengiz Özdemir, Sinem Nedime Sökücü, Levent Karasulu, Seda Tural Önür, Levent Dalar
Tracheobronchopathia Osteochondroplastica: a rare case report of a non-smoker and non-atopic patient, with a long history of wheezing since childhood
Alessandro G. Fois, Antonella Arcadu, Luigi Santoru, Rocco Trisolini, Vincenzo Marras, Giorgio C. Ginesu, Sara Canu, Lorenzo Cordero, Gabriella Diana, Pietro Pirina
Increased expression of A Proliferation-inducing Ligand (APRIL) in lung leukocytes and alveolar epithelial cells in COPD patients with non small cell lung cancer: a possible link between COPD and lung cancer?
Francesca Polverino, Maria Laucho-Contreras, Joselyn Rojas Quintero, Miguel Divo, Victor Pinto-Plata, Lynette Sholl, Juan P. de-Torres, Bartolome R. Celli, Caroline A. Owen
Mometasone furoate nasal spray: a systematic review
Desiderio Passali, Maria Carla Spinosi, Anna Crisanti, Luisa Maria Bellussi
Effectiveness, safety and tolerability of a complex homeopathic medicinal product in the prevention of recurrent acute upper respiratory tract infections in children: a multicenter, open, comparative, randomized, controlled clinical trial
Miek C. Jong, Stephen L. Buskin, Lydia Ilyenko, Irina Kholodova, Julia Burkart, Stephan Weber, Thomas Keller, Petra Klement
Fluticasone furoate/Vilanterol 92/22 μg once-a-day vs Beclomethasone dipropionate/ Formoterol 100/6 μg b.i.d.: a 12-week cost analysis in mild-to-moderate asthma
Roberto W. Dal Negro, Chiara Distante, Luca Bonadiman, Paola Turco, Sergio Iannazzo
Need of education for dry powder inhaler storage and retention – a patient-reported survey
Birger Norderud Lærum, Gunilla Telg, Georgios Stratelis
Prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis in young adult patients with Type 1 diabetes mellitus in India
Abilash Nair, Randeep Guleria, Devasenathipathy Kandasamy, Raju Sharma, Nikhil Tandon, Urvashi B. Singh, Ravinder Goswami
Acid–base balance, serum electrolytes and need for non-invasive ventilation in patients with hypercapnic acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease admitted to an internal medicine ward
Alfonso Schiavo, Maurizio Renis, Mario Polverino, Arcangelo Iannuzzi, Francesca Polverino
High bacterial load of indoor air in hospital wards: the case of University of Gondar teaching hospital, Northwest Ethiopia
Zemichael Gizaw, Mulat Gebrehiwot, Chalachew Yenew
Evaluation of the rapid immunochromatographic ODK0501 assay for Streptococcus pneumoniae antigen detection with nasopharyngeal swabs: preliminary report
Shoji Suzuki, Naoki Nishimura, Torahiko Jinta, Yasuhiko Yamano, Genta Ishikawa, Yutaka Tomishima, Noboru Uchiyama, Naohiko Chohnabayashi
Most Italians attending a congress on health of elderly people do not know and do not recognize respiratory diseases
Nicola Ciancio, Claudio M. Sanguinetti, Franco Falcone, Claudio Taranto, Roberto Fasani, Fernando De Benedetto, Onofrio Resta, Fausto De Michele, Roberto Messina, Andrea Rossi, Stefano Nardini, Giuseppe Di Maria
Sarcoidosis with prevalent and severe joint localization: a case report
Livio G. Moccia, Sabrina Castaldo, Emanuela Sirignano, Maddalena Napolitano, Enrica Barra, Alessandro Sanduzzi
Obesity: systemic and pulmonary complications, biochemical abnormalities, and impairment of lung function
Thiago Thomaz Mafort, Rogério Rufino, Cláudia Henrique Costa, Agnaldo José Lopes
Prospective study of the efficacy of antibiotics versus antitussive drugs for the management of URTI-related acute cough in children
Alessandro Zanasi, Luigi Lanata, Federico Saibene, Giovanni Fontana, Peter V. Dicpinigaitis, Valentina Venier, Francesco De Blasio
Perimenstrual asthma: from pathophysiology to treatment strategies
Alessandra Graziottin, Audrey Serafini
Dry-powder inhalers in patients with persistent airflow limitation: usability and preference
Roberto W. Dal Negro, Massimiliano Povero
Cultural and linguistic validation of the NHQ-2 Questionnaire: a specific instrument for assessing patient’s usability of inhalation devices
Roberto W. Dal Negro, Massimiliano Povero
Preliminary study on the assessment of visceral adipose tissue using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Francesca De Blasio, Erica P. A. Rutten, Emiel F. M. Wouters, Luca Scalfi, Francesco De Blasio, Marco A. Akkermans, Martijn A. Spruit, Frits M. E. Franssen
Cough: impact, beliefs, and expectations from a national survey
Roberto W. Dal Negro, Massimiliano Mazzolini, Paola Turco, Alessandro Zanasi
The effect of positive airway pressure therapy on neurocognitive functions, depression and anxiety in obesity hypoventilation syndrome
Serap Argun Baris, Dilek Tuncel, Cigdem Ozerdem, Huseyin Kutlu, Tugba Onyilmaz, Ilknur Basyigit, Hasim Boyaci, Fusun Yildiz
Lung disease recalling paraseptal emphysema in a patient with Goltz syndrome
Rosaria Cortese, Salvatore Savasta, Silvia Di Stasi, Tiziana Boggini, Chiara Trabatti, Roberto Dore, Giulia Maria Stella
Asthma-related deaths
Gennaro D’Amato, Carolina Vitale, Antonio Molino, Anna Stanziola, Alessandro Sanduzzi, Alessandro Vatrella, Mauro Mormile, Maurizia Lanza, Giovanna Calabrese, Leonardo Antonicelli, Maria D’Amato
Efficacy of recombinant human soluble thrombomodulin for the treatment of acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a single arm, non-randomized prospective clinical trial
Sho Hayakawa, Yasuo Matsuzawa, Tamako Irie, Hagino Rikitake, Noriaki Okada, Yasuo Suzuki
Cost comparison of asthma treatments in 12-week study: caution about matching and short observational follow-up
David B. Price, Job F. M. van Boven, Lisa M. Law, Alessandra Cifra, R. Brett McQueen
Hemothorax following lung transplantation: incidence, risk factors, and effect on morbidity and mortality
Aria Hong, Christopher S. King, A. Whitney Walter Brown, Shahzad Ahmad, Oksana A. Shlobin, Sandeep Khandhar, Linda Bogar, Anthony Rongione, Steven D. Nathan
Respiratory illness and air pollution from the steel industry: the case of Piquiá de Baixo, Brazil (Preliminary report)
Carla Valenti, Paolo Pozzi, Alessandra Busia, Roberto Mazza, Paolo Bossi, Cinzia De Marco, Ario Alberto Ruprecht, Alessandro Borgini, Roberto Boffi
Personality and unachieved treatment goals related to poor adherence to asthma medication in a newly developed adherence questionnaire – a population-based study
Malin Axelsson, Linda Ekerljung, Bo Lundbäck, Jan Lötvall
DNA damage and repair capacity in lymphocyte of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases patients during physical exercise with oxygen supplementation
Andréa Lúcia Gonçalves da Silva, Thaís Evelyn Karnopp, Augusto Ferreira Weber, Cassia da Luz Goulart, Paloma de Borba Scheneiders, Dannuey Machado Cardoso, Lisiane Lisboa Carvalho, Joel Henrique Ellwanger, Lia Gonçalves Possuelo, Andréia Rosane de Moura Valim
Cost of persistent asthma in Italy
Roberto W. Dal Negro, Chiara Distante, Luca Bonadiman, Paola Turco, Sergio Iannazzo
Bibliometric analysis of worldwide publications on multi-, extensively, and totally drug – resistant tuberculosis (2006–2015)
Waleed M. Sweileh, Adham S. AbuTaha, Ansam F. Sawalha, Suleiman Al-Khalil, Samah W. Al-Jabi, Sa’ed H. Zyoud