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THE INDIAN JOURNAL OF CHEST DISEASES AND ALLIED SCIENCES

Vol. 53 January- March 2011 Issue. 1

Editorials
Nosing Around in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease John F Kennedy (Page 5) Why “STOP TB” Is Incomplete Without “QUIT SMOKING” Z.F. Udwadia and L.M. Pinto (Page 9)

Original Articles
Role of Nitric Oxide in the Diuresis and Natriuresis Occurring in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Syndrome T.D. Singh, K. Patial, V.K.Vijayan and K. Ravi (Page 11) Medical Thoracoscopy for Undiagnosed Pleural Effusions: Experience from a Tertiary Care Hospital in North India V.K. Mootha, R. Agarwal, N. Singh, A.N. Aggarwal, D. Gupta and S.K. Jindal (Page 21) Breath Carbon Monoxide Levels in Different Forms of Smoking Sheetu Singh, Soumya M, Anirudh Saini, Varun Mittal, Udai Veer Singh and Virendra Singh (Page 25) Adiposity: Determinant of Peak Expiratory Flow Rate in Young Indian Adults Male Yogesh Saxena1, Brijesh Purwar2 and Rashi Upmanyu3 (Page 29) Prevalence of Depression in Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Sajal De (Page 35)

Review Article
Immune Responses to Mycobacterial Antigens in Sarcoidosis: A Systematic Review D. Gupta, R. Agarwal, A.N. Aggarwal, and Indu Verma (Page 41)

Case Reports
Transthoracic Decompression of Emphysematous Bulla: A Novel Experience P. Bhattacharyya, S. Bardhan, S. Nag, S. Mukherjee and A. Verma (Page 51) Diagnostic Dilemma of Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody Seropositivity in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Prasanta R. Mohapatra, Sushant Khanduri, Naveen Dutt, Preeti Sharma and Ashok K. Janmeja (Page 55) Cholinergics, Airway Eosinophils and Asthma Exacerbation in the Elderly Diana Khalil, Jeremy Hirota and Parameswaran Nair (Page 59)

Book Reviews
Book Reviews (Page 68)

Abstracts' Service
Evaluating the Risks of Clinical Research Annette Rid, Ezekiel J. Emanuel and David Wendler (Page 63)

Guidelines to Authors
Guidelines to Authors (Page 69)

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