Annals of Thoracic Medicine
Table of Contents
2013| January-March | Volume 8 | Issue 1
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| EDITORIAL | ||
| Accreditation of sleep medicine in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A critical step toward quality outcomes | p. 1 | |
| David Gozal | ||
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Saudi regulations for the accreditation of sleep medicine physicians and technologists | p. 3 |
| Ahmed S BaHammam, Hamdan Al-Jahdali, Adel S AlHarbi, Ghazi AlOtaibi, Saad M Asiri, Abdulaziz AlSayegh | ||
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| REVIEW ARTICLE | |
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease lost in translation: Why are the inhaled corticosteroids skeptics refusing to go? | p. 8 |
| Faisal A AI-Kassimi, Esam H Alhamad | ||
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| ORIGINAL ARTICLES | |
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Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration in the diagnosis of non-lymph node thoracic lesions | p. 14 |
| Huizhen Yang, Heng Zhao, David H Garfield, Jiajun Teng, Baohui Han, Jiayuan Sun | ||
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Effect of on-call-related sleep deprivation on physicians' mood and alertness | p. 22 |
| Siraj O Wali, Karimah Qutah, Lujain Abushanab, Roa'a Basamh, Jolanar Abushanab, Ayman Krayem | ||
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| Rapid on-site evaluation and low registration error enhance the success of electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy | p. 28 | |
| Demet Karnak, Aydin Çiledag, Koray Ceyhan, Çetin Atasoy, Serdar Akyar, Oya Kayacan | ||
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| Interstitial lung diseases in Saudi Arabia: A single-center study | p. 33 | |
| Esam H Alhamad | ||
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Multiplex protein profiling of bronchoalveolar lavage in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and hypersensitivity pneumonitis | p. 38 |
| Willems Stijn, E Verleden Stijn, M Vanaudenaerde Bart, Wynants Marijke, Dooms Christophe, Yserbyt Jonas, Somers Jana, K Verbeken Eric, M Verleden Geert, A Wuyts Wim | ||
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The effectiveness of heliox in acute respiratory distress syndrome | p. 46 |
| Sema Yilmaz, Kenan Daglioglu, Dincer Yildizdas, Ibrahim Bayram, Derya Gumurdulu, Sait Polat | ||
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Sleep estimation using BodyMedia's SenseWear™ armband in patients with obstructive sleep apnea | p. 53 |
| Munir M Sharif, Ahmed S BaHammam | ||
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| CASE REPORTS | |
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Cryoextraction: A novel approach to remove aspirated chewing gum | p. 58 |
| Edmundo Rubio, Prag Gupta, Susanti Ie, Michael Boyd | ||
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A novel technique for the reconstruction of resected sternoclavicular joints: A case report with a review of the literature | p. 60 |
| Waseem M Hajjar, Sami Alnassar, Saleh N Abu-Daff, Saleh F Al-Dhahri | ||
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| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | |
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| Diagnostic performance of interferon-Gamma assay for tuberculosis in immunocompromised patients | p. 64 | |
| Shih-Yang Su, Chien-Ming Chao, Chih-Cheng Lai | ||
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| Authors' reply | p. 64 | |
| Eman N Eldin | ||
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| Therapeutic thoracentesis in tuberculous pleural effusion: Needs more ammunition to prove | p. 65 | |
| Naveen Dutt | ||
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| Authors' reply | p. 65 | |
| Bhuniya Sourin | ||
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| Failure of non-invasive mechanical ventilation in acute hypercapnic respiratory failure: Still, there are more things to learn | p. 66 | |
| Antonio M Esquinas, Guniz Koksal | ||
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