Current Issue

 
THE INDIAN JOURNAL OF CHEST DISEASES AND ALLIED SCIENCES
 
Vol. 56                                    April - June 2014                                   Issue. 2
 
Editorial

Leadership in medicine

S.K. Jindal .. 69 

 
Guest Editorial

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis: new diagnostics and new policies

Madhukar Pai and Ruvandhi Nathavitharana .. 71 

 
Original Articles

Assessment of control of bronchial asthma in children using Childhood Asthma Control Test

S.P. Chalise, Nisha K. Bhatta, Rupa R. Singh, Maya Shankar Prasad and P. Poudel .. 75

 

Indoor air pollution and respiratory illness in children from rural India: a pilot study

R. Kumar, N. Goel, N. Gupta, K. Singh, S. Nagar and Juhi Mittal .. 79

 

Central venous catheter related bloodstream infections in medical intensive care unit patients

in a tertiary referral centre

Deepti, S. Sinha, S.K. Sharma, P. Aggarwal, A. Biswas, Seema Sood, Ragunandan P, Meera Ekka,

Immaculata Xess and V. Sreenivas .. 85 

 
Review Article

Acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: causes and impacts

S.K. Chhabra and Devi Jyoti Dash .. 93 

 
Radiology Forum

Bronchiectasis in a Marfanoid: diagnosis beyond Marfans

Unnati Desai, S. Kalamkar and J.M. Joshi .. 105 

 
Case Reports

A rare case of ulcerative colitis with diffuse parenchymal lung disease, spontaneous

pneumomediastinum and subcutaneous emphysema

D.C. Gupta, R.K. Jenaw, S. Koolwal and N. Khippal .. 109

 

Primary spontaneous haemopneumothorax: an overlooked emergency

Y Aljehani, Fahd Makhdom, Hessa Albuainain and Y. El-Ghoniemy .. 113

 

Chilaiditi’s syndrome

Rajender M, Vinay Kumar A, Renuka Rao, Raghukanth A and Shruthi Reddy A .. 117

 

Agenesis of right diaphragm in the adults: a diagnostic dilemma

S.A. Ali, M.A. Haseen and M.H. Beg .. 121

 

Testicular embryonal cell carcinoma presenting as haemoptysis and skin nodules

V.K. Yadav, P. Pokharna, N.Sharma, A. Tiwari, S. Devgaraha and R.M. Mathur .. 125 

 
Correspondence

Pulmonary hamartoma .. 129 

 
Abstracts' Service

Abstracts´ Service .. 130 

 
Obituary

Dr Gauri Bajaj-Malik .. 134 

 
Guidelines to Authors

 Guidelines to Authors .. 135

 
Announcements

Announcements .. 66, 108, 112, 124