Contents
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
• Florin Mihaltan
Inhaled corticosteroids in COPD - between pro and con?
GENERAL REVIEWS
• Laura D. Ciobanu, Dragica P. Pesut, Govind N. Srivastava
Pulmonary rehabilitation in elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Gabriela Jimborean, Edith Simona Ianosi, Alexandra Comes, Corina Budin, Delia Preda, Andrei Mosneag
„Solitary pulmonary nodule": diagnosis criteria and management
ORIGINAL PAPERS
• Ana Maria Ioncica, Carmen Popescu, Anca Malos, Lucian Ioncica, Monalisa Filip, Sevastita Iordache, Larisa Sandulescu, Dan Ionut Gheonea, Tudorel Ciurea, Daniela Neagoe, Adrian Saftoiu
The role of endoscopic ultrasound - guided transesophageal fine needle aspiration and immunocytochemistry assessement of the patients with suspected lung cancer and negative bronchoscopic biopsies
• Birleanu Lorena Adriana, Gianina Rusu, Traian Mihaescu
The use of mandibular advancing devices in the treatment of snorring and mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnoea
CLINICAL CASES
• Mohammad Hossein Rahimi-Rad, Rahim Mahmodlou
Multiple mediastinal Hydatid cysts: A case report
• Florin Mihaltan, Ioana Munteanu, Mihaela Trenchea, Camelia Badescu, Oana Cristina Arghir, Dan Ulmeanu, Paul Galbenu
Sternal chondrosarcoma and the complications poststernectomy
PROBLEMS OF SMOKING CONTROL
• Lucia M. Lotrean, Ilse Mesters, Carmen Ionut, Hein de Vries
Smoking among Romanian adolescents: do the gender differences exist?
• Antigona Trofor, Milena Adina Man, Ramona Miron
Smoking during pregnancy - a challenge to practitioners
ARTICLE FROM EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL
• C. Lange, M. Pai, F. Drobniewski, G.B. Migliori
Interferon-γ release assays for the diagnosis of active tuberculosis: sensible or silly?
TO THE PRACTITIONER
• Ioana Agache, Diana Deleanu, Nikolai Khaltaev, Jean Bousquet
Alergic rhinitis and its impact upon asthma - update (ARIA 2008). Romanian perspective.
• Oana Cristina Arghir, Claudia Constandina, Agripina Rascu
Diagnosis and management of professional bronchial asthma presented in the American College of Chest Physicians consensus
• Florin Mihaltan, Ruxandra Ulmeanu
Early diagnosis,Uplift and COPD in stage II .
