BMJ Open Respiratory Research: 7 (1)

Asthma

Systemic adverse effects from inhaled corticosteroid use in asthma: a systematic review (2 December, 2020)
Roshni Patel, Sumrah A Naqvi, Chris Griffiths, Chloe I Bloom
Global Asthma Network Phase I study in Mexico: prevalence of asthma symptoms, risk factors and altitude associations—a cross-sectional study (2 December, 2020)
Blanca Estela Del-Río-Navarro, Arturo Berber, Nayely Reyes-Noriega, Elsy Maureen Navarrete-Rodríguez, Roberto García-Almaraz, Philippa Ellwood, Luis Garcia-Marcos, Omar Josué Saucedo-Ramírez, Valente Juan Mérida-Palacio, Beatriz Del Carmen Ramos-García, Alberto José Escalante-Domínguez, Francisco Javier Linares-Zapién, Héctor Leonardo Moreno-Gardea, Georgina Ochoa-López, Luis Octavio Hernández-Mondragón, José Santos Lozano-Sáenz, José Antonio Sacre-Hazouri, Ángeles Juan-Pineda, Ma Guadalupe Sánchez-Coronel, Noel Rodríguez-Pérez, María de Jesús Ambriz-Moreno
Endotypes identified by cluster analysis in asthmatics and non-asthmatics and their clinical characteristics at follow-up: the case-control EGEA study (2 December, 2020)
Rachel Nadif, Mickael Febrissy, Miora Valérie Andrianjafimasy, Nicole Le Moual, Frederic Gormand, Jocelyne Just, Isabelle Pin, Valerie Siroux, Régis Matran, Orianne Dumas, Mohamed Nadif
Measuring urbanicity as a risk factor for childhood wheeze in a transitional area of coastal ecuador: a cross-sectional analysis (30 November, 2020)
Alejandro Rodriguez, Laura Rodrigues, Martha Chico, Maritza Vaca, Mauricio Lima Barreto, Elizabeth Brickley, Philip J Cooper
Novel electronic adherence monitoring devices in children with asthma: a mixed-methods study (5 November, 2020)
Sukeshi Makhecha, Amy Chan, Christina Pearce, Angela Jamalzadeh, Louise Fleming
Reslizumab as add-on therapy in patients with refractory asthma (8 April, 2020)
J Christian Virchow, Mirna McDonald, Margaret Garin, Stephanie Korn
Asthma control is associated with economic outcomes, work productivity and health-related quality of life in patients with asthma (18 March, 2020)
Lulu K Lee, Karthik Ramakrishnan, Guilherme Safioti, Rinat Ariely, Michael Schatz
Novel measure of lung function for assessing disease activity in asthma (10 March, 2020)
Nicholas M J Smith, John Couper, Christopher J Fullerton, Graham Richmond, Nick P Talbot, Gus Hancock, Ian Pavord, Grant A D Ritchie, Peter A Robbins, Nayia Petousi
Asthma is associated with frailty among community-dwelling adults: the GAZEL cohort (16 February, 2020)
Benjamin Landré, Rachel Nadif, Marcel Goldberg, Julie Gourmelen, Marie Zins, Joël Ankri, Marie Herr
Phenotypic characteristics and asthma severity in an East African cohort of adults and adolescents with asthma: findings from the African severe asthma project (12 February, 2020)
Bruce Kirenga, Jeremiah Chakaya, Getnet Yimer, George Nyale, Tewodros Haile, Winters Muttamba, Levicatus Mugenyi, Winceslaus Katagira, William Worodria, Hellen Aanyu-Tukamuhebwa, Njira Lugogo, Moses Joloba, Amsalu Bekele, Fred Makumbi, Cindy Green, Corina de Jong, Moses Kamya, Thys van der Molen
Expert artificial intelligence-based natural language processing characterises childhood asthma (4 February, 2020)
Hee Yun Seol, Mary C Rolfes, Wi Chung, Sunghwan Sohn, Euijung Ryu, Miguel A Park, Hirohito Kita, Junya Ono, Ivana Croghan, Sebastian M Armasu, Jose A Castro-Rodriguez, Jill D Weston, Hongfang Liu, Young Juhn

Biomarkers of disease

Non-invasive testing for liver pathology in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (15 December, 2020)
Syed Hamza Abbas, Elisha Pickett, David A Lomas, Douglas Thorburn, Bibek Gooptu, John R Hurst, Aileen Marshall

Critical care

Working accuracy of pulse oximetry in COVID-19 patients stepping down from intensive care: a clinical evaluation (23 December, 2020)
Keir Elmslie James Philip, Benjamin Bennett, Silas Fuller, Bradley Lonergan, Charles McFadyen, Janis Burns, Robert Tidswell, Aikaterini Vlachou
Factors affecting the use of neurally adjusted ventilatory assist in the adult critical care unit: a clinician survey (8 December, 2020)
Daniel Hadfield, Louise Rose, Fiona Reid, Victoria Cornelius, Nicholas Hart, Clare Finney, Bethany Penhaligon, Clare Harris, Sian Saha, Harriet Noble, John Smith, Philip Anthony Hopkins, Gerrard Francis Rafferty
Characterisation and outcomes of ARDS secondary to pneumonia in patients with and without SARS-CoV-2: a single-centre experience (30 November, 2020)
Rahul Y Mahida, Minesh Chotalia, Joseph Alderman, Chhaya Patel, Amber Hayden, Ruchi Desai, Emily Beesley, Louise E Crowley, Marina Soltan, Mansoor Bangash, Dhruv Parekh, Jaimin Patel, David R Thickett
Early conscious prone positioning in patients with COVID-19 receiving continuous positive airway pressure: a retrospective analysis (6 September, 2020)
Stuart Winearls, Ema L Swingwood, Charlotte L Hardaker, Amy M Smith, Fraser M Easton, Katherine J Millington, Rebecca S Hall, Ann Smith, Katrina J Curtis
Is there an association between subjective sleep quality and daily delirium occurrence in critically ill adults? A post hoc analysis of a randomised controlled trial (26 August, 2020)
Matthew S Duprey, John W Devlin, Yoanna Skrobik
Management of tracheostomies in the intensive care unit: a scoping review (28 July, 2020)
Kirsty A Whitmore, Shane C Townsend, Kevin B Laupland
Gait speed is associated with death or readmission among patients surviving acute hypercapnic respiratory failure (18 June, 2020)
Gatete Karege, Dina Zekry, Gilles Allali, Dan Adler, Christophe Marti

Cystic fibrosis

Intestinal current measurement and nasal potential difference to make a diagnosis of cases with inconclusive CFTR genetics and sweat test
(5 October, 2020)
Rebecca Minso, Angela Schulz, Christian Dopfer, Nadine Alfeis, Andrea van Barneveld, Lena Makartian-Gyulumyan, Gesine Hansen, Sibylle Junge, Carsten Müller, Felix C C Ringshausen, Annette Sauer-Heilborn, Frauke Stanke, Cornelia Stolpe, Stephanie Tamm, Tobias Welte, Anna-Maria Dittrich, Burkhard Tümmler
Investigating outcome measures for assessing airway clearance techniques in adults with cystic fibrosis: protocol of a single-centre randomised controlled crossover trial (5 October, 2020)
Gemma Stanford, Jane C Davies, Omar Usmani, Winston Banya, Susan Charman, Mandy Jones, Nicholas J Simmonds, Diana Bilton
How can we relieve gastrointestinal symptoms in people with cystic fibrosis? An international qualitative survey (7 September, 2020)
Sherie Smith, Nicola Rowbotham, Gwyneth Davies, Katie Gathercole, Sarah J Collins, Zoe Elliott, Sophie Herbert, Lorna Allen, Christabella Ng, Alan Smyth
What effective ways of motivation, support and technologies help people with cystic fibrosis improve and sustain adherence to treatment? (16 August, 2020)
Rebecca J Calthorpe, Sherie J Smith, Nicola J Rowbotham, Paul A Leighton, Gwyneth Davies, Tracey Daniels, Katie Gathercole, Lorna Allen, Zoe C Elliott, Alan R Smyth
Utility and validity of dynamic chest radiography in cystic fibrosis (dynamic CF): an observational, non-controlled, non-randomised, single-centre, prospective study (25 March, 2020)
Thomas Simon FitzMaurice, Paul Stephen McNamara, Dilip Nazareth, Caroline McCann, Ram Bedi, Matthew Shaw, Martin Walshaw

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Interventions to standardise hospital care at presentation, admission or discharge or to reduce unnecessary admissions or readmissions for patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a scoping review (1 December, 2020)
Rachel MacDonell, Orla Woods, Stephanie Whelan, Breda Cushen, Aine Carroll, John Brennan, Emer Kelly, Kenneth Bolger, Nora McNamara, Anne Lanigan, Timothy McDonnell, Lucia Prihodova
Relative contributions of family history and a polygenic risk score on COPD and related outcomes: COPDGene and ECLIPSE studies (25 November, 2020)
Matthew Moll, Sharon M. Lutz, Auyon J. Ghosh, Phuwanat Sakornsakolpat, Craig P. Hersh, Terri H. Beaty, Frank Dudbridge, Martin D. Tobin, Murray A. Mittleman, Edwin K. Silverman, Brian D. Hobbs, Michael H. Cho
BEAM study (Breathing, Education, Awareness, Movement): a randomised controlled feasibility trial of tai chi exercise in patients with COPD (20 November, 2020)
Gloria Y. Yeh, Daniel Litrownik, Peter M. Wayne, Douglas Beach, Elizabeth S. Klings, Harry Reyes Nieva, Adlin Pinheiro, Roger B. Davis, Marilyn L. Moy
FN3K expression in COPD: a potential comorbidity factor for cardiovascular disease (18 November, 2020)
Amr Alderawi, Gaetano Caramori, Emma H Baker, Andrew William Hitchings, Irfan Rahman, Christos Rossios, Ian Adcock, Paolo Casolari, Alberto Papi, Victor E Ortega, Jeffrey L Curtis, Simon Dunmore, Paul Kirkham
Development in PaCO₂ over 12 months in patients with COPD with persistent hypercapnic respiratory failure treated with high-flow nasal cannula—post-hoc analysis from a randomised controlled trial
(18 November, 2020)
Line Hust Storgaard, Hans-Ulrich Hockey, Ulla Møller Weinreich
Diagnostic and clinical values of non-cardiac ultrasound in COPD: A systematic review (25 September, 2020)
Jaber S Alqahtani, Tope Oyelade, Jithin Sreedharan, Abdulelah M. Aldhahir, Saeed M Alghamdi, Ahmed M Alrajeh, Abdullah S Alqahtani, Abdullah Alsulayyim, Yousef S Aldabayan, Nowaf Y Alobaidi, Mohammed D. AlAhmari
Effect of a pulmonary rehabilitation programme of 8 weeks compared to 12 weeks duration on exercise capacity in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (PuRe Duration): protocol for a randomised controlled trial (15 September, 2020)
Joshua Bishop, Lissa Spencer, Jennifer Alison
Adherence to early pulmonary rehabilitation after COPD exacerbation and risk of hospital readmission: a secondary analysis of the COPD-EXA-REHAB study (19 August, 2020)
Jakob Kjærgaard, Carsten Bogh Juhl, Peter Lange, Torgny Wilcke
Intravenous iron and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomised controlled trial (21 June, 2020)
Peter Santer, Anne McGahey, Matthew C Frise, Nayia Petousi, Nick P Talbot, Richard Baskerville, Mona Bafadhel, Annabel H Nickol, Peter A Robbins
Association between self-reported moderate to vigorous physical activity and the rate of outpatient treated COPD exacerbations: retrospective cohort study (28 May, 2020)
Huong Q Nguyen, Richard A Mularski, Marilyn L Moy, Janet S Lee, Ernest Shen
Prognostic indicators for in-hospital mortality in COPD with acute exacerbation in Thailand: a retrospective cohort study (27 May, 2020)
Thotsaporn Morasert, Methus Jantarapootirat, Phichayut Phinyo, Jayanton Patumanond
Using and implementing care bundles for patients with acute admission for COPD: qualitative study of healthcare professionals’ experience in four hospitals in England (25 March, 2020)
Ali Shaw, Katherine Morton, Anna King, Melanie Chalder, James Calvert, Sue Jenkins, Sarah Purdy
Respiratory events associated with concomitant opioid and sedative use among Medicare beneficiaries with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (25 March, 2020)
Tham Thi Le, Siyeon Park, Michelle Choi, Marniker Wijesinha, Bilal Khokhar, Linda Simoni-Wastila
Maintaining quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by extending the maintenance phase of community-based pulmonary rehabilitation: protocol for a randomised controlled trial (ComEx3 Study) (24 March, 2020)
Derrick Lopez, Nola Cecins, Joanne Cockram, Anna Collins, Holly Landers, Frank Sanfilippo, Tom Briffa, Fraser Brims, Elizabeth Geelhoed, Kevin Murray, Kirsten Phillips, David Preen, Susan Jenkins
Influence of age on real-life effects of doxycycline for acute exacerbations among COPD outpatients: a population-based cohort study (18 February, 2020)
Yuanyuan Wang, Jens H Bos, H Marike Boezen, Jan-Willem C Alffenaar, J F M van Boven, Catharina C M Schuiling-Veninga, Bob Wilffert, Eelko Hak
Randomised clinical trial to determine the safety of quercetin supplementation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (17 February, 2020)
Meilan K Han, Tyler A Barreto, Fernando J Martinez, Adam T Comstock, Umadevi S Sajjan
Laboratory-based Intermountain Validated Exacerbation (LIVE) Score stability in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (13 February, 2020)
Denitza P Blagev, Dave S Collingridge, Susan Rea, Kyle A Carey, Richard A Mularski, Siyang Zeng, Mehrdad Arjomandi, Valerie G Press

Environmental exposure

Ambient air pollution, lung function and COPD: cross-sectional analysis from the WHO Study of AGEing and adult health wave 1 (17 December, 2020)
Mona Elbarbary, Artem Oganesyan, Trenton Honda, Patrick Kelly, Ying Zhang, Yuming Guo, Geoffrey Morgan, Yanfei Guo, Joel Negin
Classification of aerosol-generating procedures: a rapid systematic review (9 October, 2020)
Tanya Jackson, Danika Deibert, Graeme Wyatt, Quentin Durand-Moreau, Anil Adisesh, Kamlesh Khunti, Sachin Khunti, Simon Smith, Xin Hui S Chan, Lawrence Ross, Nia Roberts, Elaine Toomey, Trisha Greenhalgh, Isheeta Arora, Susannah M Black, Jonathan Drake, Nandana Syam, Robert Temple, Sebastian Straube
Ambient air pollution is associated with airway inflammation in older women: a nested cross-sectional analysis (24 March, 2020)
Michael J Abramson, Claudia Wigmann, Hicran Altug, Tamara Schikowski

Guidelines

ARTP statement on pulmonary function testing 2020 (5 July, 2020)
Karl Peter Sylvester, Nigel Clayton, Ian Cliff, Michael Hepple, Adrian Kendrick, Jane Kirkby, Martin Miller, Alan Moore, Gerrard Francis Rafferty, Liam O'Reilly, Joanna Shakespeare, Laurie Smith, Trefor Watts, Martyn Bucknall, Keith Butterfield

Interstitial lung disease

Predictors of postoperative acute exacerbation of interstitial lung disease: a case–control study (28 October, 2020)
Keisuke Hosoki, Yu Mikami, Hirokazu Urushiyama, Kunihiko Souma, Gaku Kawamura, Kanji Uchida, Takahide Nagase, Taisuke Jo
CASPA (CArdiac Sarcoidosis in PApworth) improving the diagnosis of cardiac involvement in patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis: protocol for a prospective observational cohort study (9 October, 2020)
Juan Carlos Quijano-Campos, Lynne Williams, Sharad Agarwal, Katharine Tweed, Robert Parker, Ajit Lalvani, Yi-Da Chiu, Kane Dorey, Thomas Devine, Victoria Stoneman, Mark Toshner, Muhunthan Thillai
Time to diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in the IPF-PRO Registry (5 July, 2020)
Laurie D Snyder, Christopher Mosher, Colin H Holtze, Lisa H Lancaster, Kevin R Flaherty, Imre Noth, Megan L Neely, Anne S Hellkamp, Shaun Bender, Craig S Conoscenti, Joao A de Andrade, Timothy PM Whelan
ILD-specific health-related quality of life in systemic sclerosis-associated ILD compared with IPF (23 June, 2020)
Michael T Durheim, Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold, Tomas M Eagan, Arnt-Ove Hovden, May Brit Lund, Gisle Bjerke, Surinder S Birring, Trygve M Jonassen, Odd Erik Johansen, Tone Sjåheim
Characteristics of lung cancer in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis with single lung transplant versus non-transplanted patients: a retrospective observational study (21 June, 2020)
Evgeni Gershman, Alona Zer, Barak Pertzov, Osnat Shtraichman, Dorit Shitenberg, Moshe Heching, Dror Rosengarten, Mordechai Kramer
Readily accessible CT scoring method to quantify fibrosis in IPF (10 June, 2020)
Emily Fraser, Victoria St Noble, Rachel K Hoyles, Rachel Benamore, Ling-Pei Ho
Efficacy of recombinant thrombomodulin for poor prognostic cases of acute exacerbation in idiopathic interstitial pneumonia: secondary analysis of the SETUP trial (17 May, 2020)
Toru Arai, Hiroshi Kida, Yoshitaka Ogata, Satoshi Marumo, Hiroto Matsuoka, Iwao Gohma, Suguru Yamamoto, Masahide Mori, Chikatoshi Sugimoto, Kazunobu Tachibana, Masanori Akira, Yoshikazu Inoue
Prognosis and causes of death of patients with acute exacerbation of fibrosing interstitial lung diseases (6 April, 2020)
Johanna Salonen, Minna Purokivi, Risto Bloigu, Riitta Kaarteenaho

Non-invasive ventilation

Deoxynucleoside therapy for respiratory involvement in adult patients with thymidine kinase 2-deficient myopathy (27 November, 2020)
Ana Hernandez-Voth, Javier Sayas Catalan, Marta Corral Blanco, Alba Castaño Mendez, Miguel Angel Martin, Carlos De Fuenmayor Fernandez de la Hoz, Victoria Villena Garrido, Cristina Dominguez-Gonzalez
Successful awake proning is associated with improved clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19: single-centre high-dependency unit experience (14 September, 2020)
Rob J Hallifax, Benedict ML Porter, Patrick JD Elder, Sarah B Evans, Chris D Turnbull, Gareth Hynes, Rachel Lardner, Kirsty Archer, Henry V Bettinson, Annabel H Nickol, William G Flight, Stephen J Chapman, Maxine Hardinge, Rachel K Hoyles, Peter Saunders, Anny Sykes, John M Wrightson, Alastair Moore, Ling-Pei Ho, Emily Fraser, Ian D Pavord, Nicholas P Talbot, Mona Bafadhel, Nayia Petousi, Najib M Rahman
Retrospective analysis of high flow nasal therapy in COVID-19-related moderate-to-severe hypoxaemic respiratory failure (26 August, 2020)
Maulin Patel, Andrew Gangemi, Robert Marron, Junad Chowdhury, Ibraheem Yousef, Matthew Zheng, Nicole Mills, Lauren Tragesser, Julie Giurintano, Rohit Gupta, Matthew Gordon, Parth Rali, Gilbert D'Alonso, David Fleece, Huaqing Zhao, Nicole Patlakh, Gerard Criner
Experiences and views of patients, carers and healthcare professionals on using modems in domiciliary non-invasive ventilation (NIV): a qualitative study (10 March, 2020)
Stephanie K Mansell, Cherry Kilbride, Martin J Wood, Francesca Gowing, Swapna Mandal
Early NIV is associated with accelerated lung function decline in Duchenne muscular dystrophy treated with glucocorticosteroids (19 February, 2020)
Megan E Angliss, Kiara D Sclip, Leanne Gauld

Lung cancer

Feasibility study of in vitro drug sensitivity assay of advanced non-small cell lung adenocarcinomas (10 June, 2020)
Emoke Papp, Anita Steib, Elhusseiny MM Abdelwahab, Judit Meggyes-Rapp, Laszlo Jakab, Gabor Smuk, Erzsebet Schlegl, Judit Moldvay, Veronika Sárosi, Judit E Pongracz
Uptake of minimally invasive surgery and stereotactic body radiation therapy for early stage non-small cell lung cancer in the USA: an ecological study of secular trends using the National Cancer Database (12 May, 2020)
Erik F Blom, Kevin ten Haaf, Douglas A Arenberg, Harry J de Koning
Feasibility and acceptability of introducing advance care planning on a thoracic medicine inpatient ward: an exploratory mixed method study (26 February, 2020)
Nina Elisabeth Hjorth, Margrethe Aase Schaufel, Katrin Ruth Sigurdardottir, Dagny R Faksvåg Haugen
LDCT lung cancer screening in populations at different risk for lung cancer (6 February, 2020)
Gustavo Borges da Silva Teles, Ana Carolina Sandoval Macedo, Rodrigo Caruso Chate, Viviane Arevalo Tabone Valente, Marcelo Buarque de Gusmao Funari, Gilberto Szarf

Paediatric lung disease

Effect of acute respiratory infections in infancy on pulmonary function test at 3 years of age: a prospective birth cohort study (19 February, 2020)
Prawin Kumar, Aparna Mukherjee, Shivani Randev, Guruprasad R Medigeshi, Kana Ram Jat, Arti Kapil, Rakesh Lodha, Sushil Kumar Kabra

Perspective

Democratic and ethical problem of lung cancer screening: exclusion of true high-risk populations. Can it be fixed? Yes (15 December, 2020)
Oluf Dimitri Røe
The effect of tiotropium/olodaterol versus fluticasone propionate/salmeterol on left ventricular filling and lung hyperinflation in patients with COPD (2 December, 2020)
Felix Herth, Jens M Hohlfeld, Johannes Haas, Alberto de la Hoz, Xidong Jin, Karl-Friedrich Kreitner, Claus Vogelmeier, Jens Vogel-Claussen, Henrik Watz
Portable negative pressure environment to protect staff during aerosol-generating procedures in patients with COVID-19 (6 October, 2020)
James Nilson, Nikolay Bugaev, Pavan Sekhar, Haracio Hojman, Luis Gonzalez-Ciccarelli, Sadeq A Quraishi
SARS-CoV-2 organising pneumonia: ‘Has there been a widespread failure to identify and treat this prevalent condition in COVID-19?’ (22 September, 2020)
Pierre Kory, Jeffrey P Kanne
Effect of CPAP on cardiovascular events in minimally symptomatic OSA: long-term follow-up of the MOSAIC randomised controlled trial (14 September, 2020)
Ivan Tang, Chris D Turnbull, Dushendree Sen, Sonya Craig, Malcolm Kohler, John R Stradling
Is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) a new standard of care for type 1 respiratory failure in COVID-19 patients? A retrospective observational study of a dedicated COVID-19 CPAP service (5 July, 2020)
Rebecca Nightingale, Nneka Nwosu, Farheen Kutubudin, Tom Fletcher, Joe Lewis, Frederick Frost, Kathryn Haigh, Ryan Robinson, Ayesha Kumar, Gareth Jones, Deborah Brown, Michael Abouyannis, Mike Beadsworth, Peter Hampshire, Stephen Aston, Manish Gautam, Hassan Burhan
Improved survival following ward-based non-invasive pressure support for severe hypoxia in a cohort of frail patients with COVID-19: retrospective analysis from a UK teaching hospital (5 July, 2020)
Graham P Burns, Nicholas D Lane, Hilary M Tedd, Elizabeth Deutsch, Florence Douglas, Sophie D West, Jim G Macfarlane, Sarah Wiscombe, Wendy Funston
‘Scared to death’ dyspnoea from the hospitalised patient’s perspective (12 March, 2020)
Robert B B Banzett, Andrew R Sheridan, Kathy M Baker, Robert W Lansing, Jennifer P Stevens

Pleural Disease

Minimal clinically important difference for chest discomfort in patients undergoing pleural interventions (7 December, 2020)
Greta Jean Dahlberg, Fabien Maldonado, Heidi Chen, Otis Rickman, Lance Roller, Charla Walston, James Katsis, Robert Lentz
Pulmonary passport: a service evaluation study of a standardised web-based procedure logbook to aid specialist respiratory training and appraisal (12 November, 2020)
Andrew Cheng, Tarek Saba, Tracy Duncan, Seamus Grundy, Matthew Evison
Chest drain aerosol generation in COVID-19 and emission reduction using a simple anti-viral filter (4 November, 2020)
Clodagh Duffy, Andrew Kidd, Sarah Francis, Selina Tsim, Laura McNaughton, Katie Ferguson, Jenny Ferguson, K Gary Rodgers, Claire McGroarty, Robin Sayer, Kevin G Blyth
Critical analysis of the utility of initial pleural aspiration in the diagnosis and management of suspected malignant pleural effusion (22 September, 2020)
Rachel Mary Mercer, Rebecca Varatharajah, Gillian Shepherd, Qiang Lu, Olalla Castro-Añón, David J McCracken, Alexandra Dudina, Dinesh Addala, Stamatoula Tsikrika, Vineeth George, Radhika Banka, Rachelle Asciak, Maged Hassan, Robert Hallifax, Eihab O Bedawi, Janis Kay Shute, Najib M Rahman
British Thoracic Society Training Standards for Thoracic Ultrasound (TUS) (19 May, 2020)
Andrew E Stanton, Anthony Edey, Matthew Evison, Ian Forrest, Sabrine Hippolyte, Jack Kastelik, Jennifer Latham, Lola Loewenthal, Thapas Nagarajan, Mark Roberts, Nicholas Smallwood, John E S Park
Randomised placebo-controlled cross-over study examining the role of anamorelin in mesothelioma (The ANTHEM study): rationale and protocol (25 March, 2020)
Siao Nge Hoon, Katrina Fyfe, Carolyn J Peddle-McIntyre, Samantha Bowyer, Felicity Hawkins, Emily Jeffery, Hui Jun Chih, Jenette Creaney, Anna Nowak, Fraser Brims
Indwelling pleural catheters for non-malignant pleural effusions: report on a single centre’s 10 years of experience (20 January, 2020)
Nikolaj Frost, Christoph Ruwwe-Glösenkamp, Matthias Raspe, Martin Brünger, Bettina Temmesfeld-Wollbrück, Norbert Suttorp, Martin Witzenrath

Pulmonary vasculature

Pulmonary vasculopathy in explanted lungs from patients with interstitial lung disease undergoing lung transplantation (12 July, 2020)
Yaniv Dotan, Jeffrey Stewart, Andrew Gangemi, He Wang, Amandeep Aneja, Baidarbhi Chakraborty, Chandra Dass, Huaqing Zhao, Nathaniel Marchetti, Gilbert D'Alonzo, Francis C Cordova, Gerard Criner, Albert James Mamary

Quality standards

British Thoracic Society Quality Standards for outpatient management of pulmonary embolism (18 August, 2020)
Robin Condliffe, Paul Albert, Raza Alikhan, Emma Gee, Daniel Horner, Laura Hunter, Phillip Jacobs, Rachel Limbrey, Michael Newnham, Wendy Preston, Sheena Patel, Laura-Jane Smith, Jay Suntharalingam

Respiratory epidemiology

Higher serum vitamin D levels are associated with decreased odds of obstructive lung disease in the general population: an NHANES analysis (2007–2008 to 2009–2010) (31 December, 2020)
Mohamed Ismail Seedahmed, Aaron D Baugh, Jordan A Kempker
Education and pneumonia mortality: a trend analysis of its inequalities in Colombian adults (16 November, 2020)
Nelson J. Alvis-Zakzuk, Ivan Arroyave, Carlos Castañeda-Orjuela, Fernando De La Hoz-Restrepo, Nelson Alvis-Guzman
Acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure in a low-income country: a prospective observational study of hospital prevalence and mortality (4 November, 2020)
Arthur Kwizera, Jane Nakibuuka, Lydia Nakiyingi, Cornelius Sendagire, Janat Tumukunde, Catherine Katabira, Ronald Ssenyonga, Noah Kiwanuka, David Patrick Kateete, Moses Joloba, Daphne Kabatoro, Diana Atwine, Charlotte Summers
Underlying contributing conditions to breathlessness among middle-aged individuals in the general population: a cross-sectional study (25 September, 2020)
Jacob Sandberg, Magnus Ekström, Mats Börjesson, Göran Bergström, Annika Rosengren, Oskar Angerås, Kjell Toren
Last-resort strategies during mask shortages: optimal design features of cloth masks and decontamination of disposable masks during the COVID-19 pandemic (10 September, 2020)
Shovon Bhattacharjee, Prateek Bahl, Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, C Raina MacIntyre
Chronic airflow limitation and its relation to respiratory symptoms among ever-smokers and never-smokers: a cross-sectional study (5 August, 2020)
Kjell Toren, Linus Schiöler, Anne Lindberg, Anders Andersson, Annelie F Behndig, Göran Bergström, Anders Blomberg, Kenneth Caidahl, Jan Engvall, Maria Eriksson, Viktor Hamrefors, Christer Janson, David Kylhammar, Eva Lindberg, Anders Lindén, Andrei Malinovschi, Hans Lennart Persson, Martin Sandelin, Jonas Eriksson Ström, Hanan A Tanash, Jenny Vikgren, Carl Johan Östgren, Per Wollmer, C. Magnus Sköld
Age-stratified burden of pneumococcal community acquired pneumonia in hospitalised Canadian adults from 2010 to 2015 (17 March, 2020)
Jason LeBlanc, May ElSherif, Lingyun Ye, Donna MacKinnon-Cameron, Ardith Ambrose, Todd F Hatchette, Amanda LS Lang, Hayley D Gillis, Irene Martin, Walter H Demczuk, Craig LaFerriere, Melissa K Andrew, Guy Boivin, William Bowie, Karen Green, Jennie Johnstone, Mark Loeb, Anne McCarthy, Allison McGeer, Makeda Semret, Sylvie Trottier, Louis Valiquette, Duncan Webster, Shelly A McNeil
Coronary heart disease and heart failure in asthma, COPD and asthma-COPD overlap (3 February, 2020)
Truls Sylvan Ingebrigtsen, Jacob Louis Marott, Jørgen Vestbo, Børge Grønne Nordestgaard, Peter Lange

Respiratory infection

Analyses of abdominal adiposity and metabolic syndrome as risk factors for respiratory distress in COVID-19 (16 December, 2020)
Cathelijne M van Zelst, Matthijs L Janssen, Nadine Pouw, Erwin Birnie, Manuel Castro Cabezas, Gert-Jan Braunstahl
Utility of established prognostic scores in COVID-19 hospital admissions: multicentre prospective evaluation of CURB-65, NEWS2 and qSOFA (7 December, 2020)
Patrick Bradley, Freddy Frost, Kukatharmini Tharmaratnam, Daniel G Wootton
Venous thromboembolism in patients with COVID-19 and correlation with D-dimers: a single-centre experience (16 November, 2020)
Muhammad Ziaullah Khan, Yousaf Jamal, Benjamin Sutton, Farrukh Rauf
CPAP management of COVID-19 respiratory failure: a first quantitative analysis from an inpatient service evaluation (4 November, 2020)
Abdul Ashish, Alison Unsworth, Jane Martindale, Ram Sundar, Kanishka Kavuri, Luigi Sedda, Martin Farrier
Clinical and financial burden of hospitalised community-acquired pneumonia in patients with selected underlying comorbidities in England (13 October, 2020)
James Campling, Dylan Jones, James Chalmers, Qin Jiang, Andrew Vyse, Harish Madhava, Gillian Ellsbury, Adrian Rabe, Mary Slack
Association of smoking status with outcomes in hospitalised patients with COVID-19 (5 October, 2020)
Muhammad Adrish, Sridhar Chilimuri, Nikhitha Mantri, Haozhe Sun, Maleeha Zahid, Sudharsan Gongati, Ked Fortuzi, Abhishrut Pramod Jog, Pravish Purmessur, Ravish Singhal
Vimentin as a target for the treatment of COVID-19 (9 September, 2020)
Zhenlin Li, Denise Paulin, Patrick Lacolley, Dario Coletti, Onnik Agbulut
Characteristics and outcomes of admitted patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Uganda (7 September, 2020)
Bruce Kirenga, Winters Muttamba, Alex Kayongo, Christopher Nsereko, Trishul Siddharthan, John Lusiba, Levicatus Mugenyi, Rosemary K Byanyima, William Worodria, Fred Nakwagala, Rebecca Nantanda, Ivan Kimuli, Winceslaus Katagira, Bernard Sentalo Bagaya, Emmanuel Nasinghe, Hellen Aanyu-Tukamuhebwa, Beatrice Amuge, Rogers Sekibira, Esther Buregyeya, Noah Kiwanuka, Moses Muwanga, Samuel Kalungi, Moses Lutaakome Joloba, David Patrick Kateete, Baterana Byarugaba, Moses R Kamya, Henry Mwebesa, William Bazeyo
Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) in primary care: narrative review of C reactive protein (CRP) point-of-care testing (POCT) and antibacterial use in patients who present with symptoms of RTI (6 September, 2020)
Jonathan Cooke, Carl Llor, Rogier Hopstaken, Matthew Dryden, Christopher Butler
Ethnicity and risk of death in patients hospitalised for COVID-19 infection in the UK: an observational cohort study in an urban catchment area (1 September, 2020)
Elizabeth Sapey, Suzy Gallier, Chris Mainey, Peter Nightingale, David McNulty, Hannah Crothers, Felicity Evison, Katharine Reeves, Domenico Pagano, Alastair K Denniston, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar, Peter Diggle, Simon Ball
Nasopharyngeal density of respiratory viruses in childhood pneumonia in a highly vaccinated setting: findings from a case–control study (29 July, 2020)
Mejbah Uddin Bhuiyan, Tom Snelling, Chisha Sikazwe, Jurissa Lang, Meredith Borland, Andrew Martin, Peter Richmond, Adam Jaffe, David Smith, Christopher Blyth
Current and future management of non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (NTM-PD) in the UK (21 June, 2020)
Marc Lipman, Joanne Cleverley, Tom Fardon, Besma Musaddaq, Daniel Peckham, Roald van der Laan, Paul Whitaker, Jacqui White
British Thoracic Society guideline for the use of long-term macrolides in adults with respiratory disease (23 April, 2020)
David Smith, Ingrid A Du Rand, Charlotte Addy, Timothy Collyns, Simon Hart, Philip Mitchelmore, Najib Rahman, Ravijyot Saggu
Non-tuberculous mycobacterial lung disease in patients with bronchiectasis: perceived risk, severity and guideline adherence in a European physician survey (23 April, 2020)
Dirk Wagner, Jakko van Ingen, Roald van der Laan, Marko Obradovic
The effects of sildenafil on ciliary beat frequency in patients with pulmonary non-tuberculous mycobacteria disease: phase I/II trial (12 March, 2020)
Cedar Fowler, Un-In Wu, Robyn Shaffer, Caroline Smith, Lisa Barnhart, Clare Bryant, Kenneth Olivier, Steven M Holland

Respiratory physiology

Physiological tests of small airways function in diagnosing asthma: a systematic review (21 December, 2020)
Mohammed A Almeshari, Nowaf Y Alobaidi, Ross G Edgar, James Stockley, Elizabeth Sapey
ARTP statement on pulmonary function testing (5 July, 2020)
Brendan G Cooper, James H Hull, Julie K Lloyd
Influence of observer preferences and auscultatory skill on the choice of terms to describe lung sounds: a survey of staff physicians, residents and medical students (26 March, 2020)
Abraham Bohadana, Hava Azulai, Amir Jarjoui, George Kalak, Gabriel Izbicki

Respiratory research

Moving singing for lung health online in response to COVID-19: experience from a randomised controlled trial (25 November, 2020)
Keir EJ Philip, Adam Lewis, Edmund Jeffery, Sara Buttery, Phoene Cave, Daniele Cristiano, Adam Lound, Karen Taylor, William D-C Man, Daisy Fancourt, Michael I Polkey, Nicholas S Hopkinson
Dance for people with chronic breathlessness: a transdisciplinary approach to intervention development (9 November, 2020)
Samantha Harrison, Krzysztof Bierski, Naomi Burn, Sarah Mclusky, Victoria McFaull, Andrew Russell, Gaynor Williams, Siân Williams, Jane Macnaughton
High prevalence of exercise-induced stridor during Parkrun: a cross-sectional field-based evaluation (30 September, 2020)
Joe Sails, James H Hull, Hayden Allen, Liam Darville, Emil S Walsted, Oliver J Price
Two chair test: a substitute of 6 min walk test appear cardiopulmonary reserve specific (22 September, 2020)
Parthasarathi Bhattacharyya, Dipanjan Saha, Mintu Paul, Dhiman Ganguly, Biswarup Mukherjee, Sushmita Roy Chowdhury, Sourav RoyChoudhury, Pawan Agarwal, Indranil Halder, Debanu Ghosh Roy, Shuvanan Ray
Exploratory cost-effectiveness model of electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy (ENB) compared with CT-guided biopsy (TTNA) for diagnosis of malignant indeterminate peripheral pulmonary nodules (12 August, 2020)
William Rickets, Kelvin Kar Wing Lau, Vicki Pollit, Stuart Mealing, Catherine Leonard, Philip Mallender, Nilanjan Chaudhuri, Pallav L Shah, Umamamaheswar Babu Naidu
Side effects of acetazolamide: a systematic review and meta-analysis assessing overall risk and dose dependence (23 April, 2020)
Christopher N Schmickl, Robert L Owens, Jeremy E Orr, Bradley A Edwards, Atul Malhotra
Environmental impact of inhalers for respiratory diseases: decreasing the carbon footprint while preserving patient-tailored treatment (31 March, 2020)
Sara Panigone, Federica Sandri, Rossella Ferri, Andrea Volpato, Elena Nudo, Gabriele Nicolini
Complications and discomfort after research bronchoscopy in the MicroCOPD study (9 March, 2020)
Elise Orvedal Leiten, Tomas Mikal Lind Eagan, Einar Marius Hjellestad Martinsen, Eli Nordeide, Gunnar Reksten Husebø, Kristel Svalland Knudsen, Sverre Lehmann, Øistein Svanes, Per Sigvald Bakke, Rune Nielsen

Sleep

Integrated diagnostic pathway for patients referred with suspected OSA: a model for collaboration across the primary–secondary care interface (6 November, 2020)
Nikesh Devani, Tom Aslan, Fiona Leske, Stephanie K Mansell, Sarah Morgan, Swapna Mandal
Characterisation of ICU sleep by a commercially available activity tracker and its agreement with patient-perceived sleep quality (23 April, 2020)
Patricia R Louzon, Jessica L Andrews, Xavier Torres, Eric C Pyles, Mahmood H Ali, Yuan Du, John W Devlin

Smoking

Correlation between biomarkers of exposure, effect and potential harm in the urine of electronic cigarette users (19 February, 2020)
Shane Sakamaki-Ching, Monique Williams, My Hua, Jun Li, Steve M Bates, Andrew N Robinson, Timothy W Lyons, Maciej Lukasz Goniewicz, Prue Talbot

Thoracic surgery

Immediate effects of systemic administration of normal and high O₂-affinity haemoglobin vesicles as a transfusion alternative in a rat pneumonectomy model
(10 June, 2020)
Ryo Hashimoto, Mitsutomo Kohno, Kana Oiwa, Hiroto Onozawa, Masazumi Watanabe, Hirohisa Horinouchi, Hiromi Sakai, Koichi Kobayashi, Masayuki Iwazaki

Tuberculosis

Treatment outcomes of patients with MDR-TB in Nepal on a current programmatic standardised regimen: retrospective single-centre study (12 August, 2020)
Samiksha Ghimire, Samriddhi Karki, Bhagwan Maharjan, Jos G W Kosterink, Daan J Touw, Tjip S van der Werf, Bhabana Shrestha, Jan-Willem Alffenaar
Prompt recognition of infectious pulmonary tuberculosis is critical to achieving elimination goals: a retrospective cohort study (24 May, 2020)
Courtney Heffernan, James Barrie, Alexander Doroshenko, Mary Lou Egedahl, Catherine Paulsen, Ambikaipakan Senthilselvan, Richard Long

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Table of contents

2020 - Volume 7 - 1

Asthma

Biomarkers of disease

Critical care

Cystic fibrosis

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Environmental exposure

Guidelines

Interstitial lung disease

Non-invasive ventilation

Lung cancer

Paediatric lung disease

Perspective

Pleural Disease

Pulmonary vasculature

Quality standards

Respiratory epidemiology

Respiratory infection

Respiratory physiology

Respiratory research

Sleep

Smoking

Thoracic surgery

Tuberculosis

Correction

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Table of contents

2020 - Volume 7 - 1

Asthma

Biomarkers of disease

Critical care

Cystic fibrosis

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Environmental exposure

Guidelines

Interstitial lung disease

Non-invasive ventilation

Lung cancer

Paediatric lung disease

Perspective

Pleural Disease

Pulmonary vasculature

Quality standards

Respiratory epidemiology

Respiratory infection

Respiratory physiology

Respiratory research

Sleep

Smoking

Thoracic surgery

Tuberculosis

Correction