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EDITORIAL 

• Evaluation of Romanian medical journals - where to go?
Irina Strâmbu

• The updated GOLD 2014 confirms new combinations
Florin Mihălţan

TUBERCULOZA ÎN ROMANIA

•  Aspects of TB endemia in Romania and the response of the National Programme for prevention, surveillance and control of tuberculosis
Georgeta Gilda Popescu, Victor Spînu, Domnica Ioana Chiotan
 
REVIEWS
 
•   New advances in the management and treatment of cystic fibrosis
Florin Mihălţan

•   The Montgomery tracheal prosthesis: actual solution for tracheal stenosis
Cornel Adrian Petreanu, Cornel Savu, Codin Saon, Emilia Crişan, Ruxandru Ulmeanu, Mihai Alexe

ORIGINAL PAPERS

•  Alpha- 1 antitrypsin deficiency and spontaneous pneumothorax: possible causal relationship
Danielius Serapinas, Viltaute Obrikyte, Dalius Vaicius, Arvydas Valavicius, Raimundas Sakalauskas
 
• Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and arterial hypertension - a  complicated relationship? The role of controlling blood pressure values in patients with OSAS
Oana-Claudia Deleanu, Andra Elena Mălăuţ, Ana Maria Nebunoiu, Miruna Mihaela Micheu, Florin Dumitru Mihălţan
 
• Features of severe asthma in young children from Romania
Mihai Craiu, Iustina Violeta Stan

CLINICAL CASES
 
• Paradoxical arterial hypoxemia in a left-to-right shunt congenital heart disease
Efrén Martínez-Quintana, Fayna Rodríguez-González
 
• Delayed diagnosis in a case of granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's) with initial predominance of joint involvement
Anca Macri, Ruxandra Ulmeanu, Florin Mihălţan, Gabriela Popa, Radu Stoica
 

PROBLEMS REGARDING SMOKING CESSATION

• The new directive on tobacco products: „Battle" ended; „Battle" is just beginning!"
Magda Ciobanu, Paraschiva Postolache

DIN ACTIVITATEA SRP

• A new conference with international participation - a unique opportunity to discuss the novelties in bronchology
Florin Mihălţan, Mărioara Şimon

• The VIth National Conference of the Tabacology Section of the Romanian Society of Pneumology
Cristian Didilescu