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EDITORIAL
- Florin Mihaltan
Asthma - between „control" and „severity"
TUBERCULOSIS IN ROMANIA
- Constantin Marica, Cristian Didilescu, Domnica Chiotan, Nicolae Galie, Mihaela Tanasescu, Mara Popescu-Hagen, Mihai Popa
Multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Romania in the last years (2004-2007) - an extremely important social phenomenon
GENERAL REVIEWS
- Iulian Popescu
Pre-neoplastic bronchial lesions: possibilities of diagnosis and chemo-prevention
- Octavian Ioachimescu, Emil Corlan
New data in staging and prognosis of bronchopulmonary carcinoma. Part II: volumetric analysis of pulmonary nodules
ORIGINAL PAPERS
- Ioana Munteanu, Camelia Badescu, Mihaela Trenchea, Fl. Mihaltan
Prevalence of sleep apnoea syndrome
- Stefan Mihaicuta, Sorin Ursoniu, Daniel Lighezan, Danina Muntean, Ovidiu Fira-Mladinescu, Raul Horhat, Stefan Frent, Dan Gaita, Voicu Tudorache
Particularities of the association of systemic arterial hypertension in patients with
sleep apnea syndrome
CLINICAL CASES
- Victor Botnaru, Oxana Munteanu, Vladimir Vataman, Lilian Saptefrati
Pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma - a case report
ARTICLE FROM EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL
- C. Garcia-Vidal, N. Fernández-Sabé, J. Carratalà, V. Díaz, R. Verdaguer, J. Dorca, F. Manresa, and F. Gudiol
Early mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia: causes and risk factors
TO THE PRACTICIONER
- Nicolae Galie, Emilia Tabacu
Intrapleural hyperthermo-chemotherapy - another modality for the treatment of malignant
pleural effusions
PROBLEMS OF SMOKING CONTROL
- Vincenzo Zagà
Polonium: the radioactive killer from tobacco smoke
Summary
EDITORIAL• Florin Mihaltan, Ruxandra Ulmeanu
Beta 2 agonists between FDA, Cochrane and reality
ORIGINAL PAPERS
• Constantin Cristian Grigoras, Adriana Grigoras, Traian Mihaescu, Alina Floarea-Strat, Laurette Cozma, Liliana Veres
Expression of the Bax proapoptotic factor in asthmatic patients
• Elena Cristina Mitrofan, Andreea Steciuc, Gianina Rusu
Non invasive ventilation in acute hypercapnic exacerbations from COPD
• Cojocaru Elena, Dumitriu Irina Luciana, Gurzu Bogdan, Costuleanu Marcel
Involvement of AT1 receptors on adenosine induced bronchial hyperreactivity
• Alexandru Crisan, Emilia Nicoara, Ruxandra Laza
Considerations about prolonged fever ilness
TUBERCULOSIS IN ROMANIA
• Constantin Marica, Domnica Chiotan, Cristian Didilescu, Mara Popescu-Hagen, Mihaela Tanasescu, Nicolae Galie
Tuberculosis in Romania between 2006 - 2008
GENERAL REVIEWS
• Cristian Paleru, Olga Danaila, Ciprian Bolca, Ioan Cordos
Complications of mediastinoscopy
• Vanda-Roxana Nimigean, Florin Mihaltan, Victor Nimigean, Maria-Angelica Bencze, Radu Stanciu, Ramona-Ionela Truta
Oral appliances in the treatment of sleep respiratory disturbances - from goals to outcomes
CLINICAL CASES
• Liliana Veres, Traian Mihaescu, Eduard Beda
Pumonary tromboembolism: particularities of diagnosis in youth - case report
• Mohammad Hossein Rahimi-Rad, Ali Eishi
Superior vena cava syndrome in a man with situs inversus totalis and left main bronchus cancer
PEDIATRIC PNEUMOLOGY PROBLEMS
• Cornel Valean, Simona Tatar, Mircea Nanulescu, Adrian Leucuta, Gabriela Ichim
Relationship between asthma and obesity in pupils
TO THE PRACTITIONER
• Raluca Bercea, Adriana Condorateanu, Gianina Rusu, Traian Mihaescu
Pulsoximetry in the clinical practice
ARTICLE FROM EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL
• I.N. Park, Y. Jegal, D.S. Kim, K-H. Do, B. Yoo, T.S. Shim, C-M. Lim, S.D. Lee, Y. Koh, W.S. Kim, W.D. Kim, S.J. Jang, M. Kitaichi, A.G. Nicholson and T.V. Colby
Clinical course and lung function change of idiopathic nonspecific interstitial pneumonia
PROBLEMS OF SMOKING CONTROL
• Antigona Trofor, Florin Mihaltan, Stefan Mihaicuta, Lucia Lotrean
Smoking cessation and prevention for young people - Romanian expertise
