European Respiratory Journal

The ERJ publishes clinical and experimental work relating to all aspects of adult and paediatric respiratory medicine, including cell biology, epidemiology, immunology, oncology, pathophysiology, imaging, occupational medicine, intensive care, sleep medicine and thoracic surgery. In addition to original research material, the ERJ also publishes editorial commentaries, reviews, short research letters and correspondence to the editor. Articles are published continuously and collected into 12 monthly issues in two volumes per year.

July

Controlling chronic respiratory diseases in Finland from 1996 to 2018 Tiina Mattila, Marina Erhola, Tuula Vasankari, Sanna Toppila-Salmi, Fredrik Herse, Riikka-Leena Leskelä, Vesa Jormanainen, Anelma Lammi, Tari Haahtela Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2200318; 10.1183/13993003.00318-2022
The Roughton–Forster equation for pulmonary diffusion: how it happened Mike Hughes Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2200789; 10.1183/13993003.00789-2022
Pulmonary function interpretative strategies: from statistics to clinical practice Vito Brusasco, Riccardo Pellegrino Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2200317; 10.1183/13993003.00317-2022
We need to understand why viral infections lead to acute asthma Peter A.B. Wark Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2200194; 10.1183/13993003.00194-2022
Securing the chest tube: in search of the elusive solution Srinivas R. Mummadi, José M. Porcel Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2200434; 10.1183/13993003.00434-2022
Targeted strategies are needed to prevent childhood asthma Danielle Wurzel, Paul V. Licciardi Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2200378; 10.1183/13993003.00378-2022
Selexipag for inoperable CTEPH: why meeting a primary endpoint simply isn't enough Hossein-Ardeschir Ghofrani Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2200581; 10.1183/13993003.00581-2022
Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis infection: can it contribute to achieving tuberculosis elimination? Alberto Matteelli, Jan-Willem C. Alffenaar Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2200540; 10.1183/13993003.00540-2022
Two phenotypes that predict prognosis in lung adenocarcinoma Lukas Kalinke, Sam M. Janes Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2200569; 10.1183/13993003.00569-2022
When should corticosteroids be used for COVID-19 infection? Charles Feldman, Grant Waterer Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2103222; 10.1183/13993003.03222-2021
ERS/ATS technical standard on interpretive strategies for routine lung function tests Sanja Stanojevic, David A. Kaminsky, Martin R. Miller, Bruce Thompson, Andrea Aliverti, Igor Barjaktarevic, Brendan G. Cooper, Bruce Culver, Eric Derom, Graham L. Hall, Teal S. Hallstrand, Joerg D. Leuppi, Neil MacIntyre, Meredith McCormack, Margaret Rosenfeld, Erik R. Swenson Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2101499; 10.1183/13993003.01499-2021
Phenotype and severity of asthma determines bronchial epithelial immune responses to a viral mimic Celeste Porsbjerg, Juan Jose Nieto-Fontarigo, Samuel Cerps, Sangheeta Ramu, Mandy Menzel, Morten Hvidtfeldt, Alexander Silberbrandt, Laurits Frøssing, Ditte Klein, Asger Sverrild, Lena Uller Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2102333; 10.1183/13993003.02333-2021
Fine particulate matter components and interstitial lung disease in rheumatoid arthritis Naizhuo Zhao, Ziyad Al-Aly, Boyang Zheng, Aaron van Donkelaar, Randall V. Martin, Christian A. Pineau, Sasha Bernatsky Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2102149; 10.1183/13993003.02149-2021
A randomised controlled trial of intrapleural balloon intercostal chest drains to prevent drain displacement Rachel M. Mercer, Eleanor Mishra, Radhika Banka, John P. Corcoran, Cyrus Daneshvar, Rakesh K. Panchal, Tarek Saba, Melanie Caswell, Sarah Johnstone, Daniel Menzies, Sana Ahmer, Mitra Shahidi, Amelia O. Clive, Manish Gautam, Giles Cox, Chris Orton, Judith Lyons, Nadeem Maddekar, Duneesha De Fonseka, Kathryn Prior, Simon Barnes, Grace Robinson, Louise Brown, Mohammed Munavvar, Palav L. Shah, Robert J. Hallifax, Kevin G. Blyth, Emma Hedley, Nick A. Maskell, Stephen Gerry, Robert F. Miller, Najib M. Rahman, Samuel V. Kemp Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2101753; 10.1183/13993003.01753-2021
Chronic lung allograft dysfunction phenotype and prognosis by machine learning CT analysis Micheal C. McInnis, Jin Ma, Gauri Rani Karur, Christian Houbois, Liran Levy, Jan Havlin, Eyal Fuchs, Jussi Tikkanen, Chung-Wai Chow, Ella Huszti, Tereza Martinu Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2101652; 10.1183/13993003.01652-2021
Comorbid insomnia and sleep apnoea is associated with all-cause mortality Bastien Lechat, Sarah Appleton, Yohannes Adama Melaku, Kristy Hansen, R. Doug McEvoy, Robert Adams, Peter Catcheside, Leon Lack, Danny J. Eckert, Alexander Sweetman Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2101958; 10.1183/13993003.01958-2021
Nasopharyngeal metatranscriptome profiles of infants with bronchiolitis and risk of childhood asthma: a multicentre prospective study Yoshihiko Raita, Marcos Pérez-Losada, Robert J. Freishtat, Andrea Hahn, Eduardo Castro-Nallar, Ignacio Ramos-Tapia, Nathaniel Stearrett, Yury A. Bochkov, James E. Gern, Jonathan M. Mansbach, Zhaozhong Zhu, Carlos A. Camargo, Kohei Hasegawa Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2102293; 10.1183/13993003.02293-2021
Selexipag for the treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension Takeshi Ogo, Hiroto Shimokawahara, Hideyuki Kinoshita, Seiichiro Sakao, Kohtaro Abe, Satoaki Matoba, Hirohiko Motoki, Noriaki Takama, Junya Ako, Yasuhiro Ikeda, Shuji Joho, Hisataka Maki, Takahiro Saeki, Teruyasu Sugano, Ichizo Tsujino, Koichiro Yoshioka, Naoki Shiota, Shinichi Tanaka, Chieko Yamamoto, Nobuhiro Tanabe, Koichiro Tatsumi Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2101694; 10.1183/13993003.01694-2021
COMPERA 2.0: a refined four-stratum risk assessment model for pulmonary arterial hypertension Marius M. Hoeper, Christine Pausch, Karen M. Olsson, Doerte Huscher, David Pittrow, Ekkehard Grünig, Gerd Staehler, Carmine Dario Vizza, Henning Gall, Oliver Distler, Christian Opitz, J. Simon R. Gibbs, Marion Delcroix, H. Ardeschir Ghofrani, Da-Hee Park, Ralf Ewert, Harald Kaemmerer, Hans-Joachim Kabitz, Dirk Skowasch, Juergen Behr, Katrin Milger, Michael Halank, Heinrike Wilkens, Hans-Jürgen Seyfarth, Matthias Held, Daniel Dumitrescu, Iraklis Tsangaris, Anton Vonk-Noordegraaf, Silvia Ulrich, Hans Klose, Martin Claussen, Tobias J. Lange, Stephan Rosenkranz Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2102311; 10.1183/13993003.02311-2021
Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific CD4 T-cell scoring discriminates tuberculosis infection from disease Andrej Mantei, Tim Meyer, Mariana Schürmann, Christiane Beßler, Harald Bias, David Krieger, Torsten Bauer, Petra Bacher, Johannes Helmuth, Hans-Dieter Volk, Dirk Schürmann, Alexander Scheffold, Christian Meisel Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2101780; 10.1183/13993003.01780-2021
Protective efficacy of 6-week regimen for latent tuberculosis infection treatment in rural China: 5-year follow-up of a randomised controlled trial Henan Xin, Xuefang Cao, Haoran Zhang, Boxuan Feng, Ying Du, Bin Zhang, Dakuan Wang, Zisen Liu, Ling Guan, Fei Shen, Xueling Guan, Jiaoxia Yan, Yijun He, Yongpeng He, Zhusheng Quan, Shouguo Pan, Jianmin Liu, Qi Jin, Lei Gao Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2102359; 10.1183/13993003.02359-2021
Prognostic phenotypes of early-stage lung adenocarcinoma Anne-Sophie Lamort, Jan Christian Kaiser, Mario A.A. Pepe, Ioannis Lilis, Giannoula Ntaliarda, Kalman Somogyi, Magda Spella, Sabine J. Behrend, Georgia A. Giotopoulou, Willem Kujawa, Michael Lindner, Ina Koch, Rudolf A. Hatz, Juergen Behr, Rocio Sotillo, Andrea C. Schamberger, Georgios T. Stathopoulos Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2101674; 10.1183/13993003.01674-2021
Dexamethasone in hospitalised COVID-19 patients not on intensive respiratory support Kristina Crothers, Rian DeFaccio, Janet Tate, Patrick R. Alba, Matthew Bidwell Goetz, Barbara Jones, Joseph T. King, Vincent Marconi, Michael E. Ohl, Christopher T. Rentsch, Maria C. Rodriguez-Barradas, Shahida Shahrir, Amy C. Justice, Kathleen M. Akgün Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2102532; 10.1183/13993003.02532-2021
Broadening symptom criteria improves early case identification in SARS-CoV-2 contacts Hamish Houston, Seran Hakki, Timesh D. Pillay, Kieran Madon, Nieves Derqui-Fernandez, Aleksandra Koycheva, Anika Singanayagam, Joe Fenn, Rhia Kundu, Emily Conibear, Robert Varro, Jessica Cutajar, Valerie Quinn, Lulu Wang, Janakan S. Narean, Mica R. Tolosa-Wright, Jack Barnett, Onn Min Kon, Richard Tedder, Graham Taylor, Maria Zambon, Neil Ferguson, Jake Dunning, Jonathan J. Deeks, Ajit Lalvani Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2102308; 10.1183/13993003.02308-2021
Mechanical ventilation promotes lung tumour spread by modulation of cholesterol cell content Inés López-Alonso, Cecilia López-Martínez, Paula Martín-Vicente, Laura Amado-Rodríguez, Adrián González-López, Juan Mayordomo-Colunga, Cecilia del Busto, Marina Bernal, Irene Crespo, Aurora Astudillo, Miguel Arias-Guillén, Antonio Fueyo, Isaac Almendros, Jorge Otero, Héctor Sanz-Fraile, Ramón Farré, Guillermo M. Albaiceta Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2101470; 10.1183/13993003.01470-2021
Evaluation of a novel CFTR potentiator in COPD ferrets with acquired CFTR dysfunction Niroop Kaza, Vivian Y. Lin, Denise Stanford, Shah S. Hussain, Emily Falk Libby, Harrison Kim, Monica Borgonovi, Katja Conrath, Venkateshwar Mutyam, Stephen A. Byzek, Li Ping Tang, John E. Trombley, Lawrence Rasmussen, Trenton Schoeb, Hui Min Leung, Guillermo J. Tearney, S. Vamsee Raju, Steven M. Rowe Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2101581; 10.1183/13993003.01581-2021
Lysyl oxidase like 2 is increased in asthma and contributes to asthmatic airway remodelling Jopeth Ramis, Robert Middlewick, Francesco Pappalardo, Jennifer T. Cairns, Iain D. Stewart, Alison E. John, Shams-Un-Nisa Naveed, Ramaswamy Krishnan, Suzanne Miller, Dominick E. Shaw, Christopher E. Brightling, Lee Buttery, Felicity Rose, Gisli Jenkins, Simon R. Johnson, Amanda L. Tatler Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2004361; 10.1183/13993003.04361-2020
Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals that BMPR2 mutation regulates right ventricular function via ID genes Mingxia Du, Haibin Jiang, Hongxian Liu, Xin Zhao, Yu Zhou, Fang Zhou, Chunmei Piao, Guoqiang Xu, Feng Ma, Jianan Wang, Frederic Perros, Nicholas W. Morrell, Hong Gu, Jun Yang Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2100327; 10.1183/13993003.00327-2021
The environmental impact of inhaled therapy: making informed treatment choices Ashley Woodcock, Kai M. Beeh, Hironori Sagara, Simon Aumônier, Emmanuel Addo-Yobo, Javaid Khan, Jørgen Vestbo, Helen Tope Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2102106; 10.1183/13993003.02106-2021
Methods for the assessment of human airway ciliary function Claire L. Jackson, Mathieu Bottier Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2102300; 10.1183/13993003.02300-2021
Blood trihalomethane concentrations and lung function in US adolescents: a nationally representative cross-sectional study Yang Sun, Yi-Xin Wang, Vicente Mustieles, Yu Zhang, Xiong-Fei Pan, Carmen Messerlian Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2200753; 10.1183/13993003.00753-2022
Benefit of monoclonal antibodies in early treatment of COVID-19 after lung transplantation: a retrospective analysis in two centres Jens Gottlieb, Martin Kolditz, Nils Gade, Tobias Welte, Nikolaus Kneidinger Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2200124; 10.1183/13993003.00124-2022
Health effects of exposure to residential air pollution in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension: a cohort study in Belgium Katleen Swinnen, Esmée Bijnens, Lidia Casas, Tim S. Nawrot, Marion Delcroix, Rozenn Quarck, Catharina Belge Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2102335; 10.1183/13993003.02335-2021
Lung transplantation in HIV-positive patients: a European retrospective cohort study Claire Rouzaud, Cristina Berastegui, Clément Picard, Robin Vos, Laurent Savale, Xavier Demant, Alessandro Bertani, Erik Verschuuren, Peter Jaksch, Anna Reed, Letizia Corinna Morlacchi, Martine Reynaud-Gaubert, Olivier Lortholary, Elie Fadel, Marc Humbert, Jens Gottlieb, Jérôme Le Pavec Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2200189; 10.1183/13993003.00189-2022
Cancer risk in adherent users of polyurethane foam-containing CPAP devices for sleep apnoea Grégoire Justeau, Chloé Gervès-Pinquié, Marie Jouvenot, Thierry Pigeanne, Sandrine Launois, Laurene Leclair-Visonneau, Philippe Masson, Acya Bizieux-Thaminy, Sébastien Bailly, Nicole Meslier, Abdelkebir Sabil, Jean-Louis Racineux, Wojciech Trzepizur, Frédéric Gagnadoux Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2200551; 10.1183/13993003.00551-2022
Severe pulmonary hypertension associated with COPD: long-term results of a prospective French multicentre cohort Gaëlle Dauriat, Martine Reynaud-Gaubert, Vincent Cottin, Bouchra Lamia, David Montani, Drifa Belhadi, Marc Humbert, Cedric Laouenan, Hervé Mal Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2102897; 10.1183/13993003.02897-2021
Genetic overlap between idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and COVID-19 Richard J. Allen, Beatriz Guillen-Guio, Emma Croot, Luke M. Kraven, Samuel Moss, Iain Stewart, R. Gisli Jenkins, Louise V. Wain Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2103132; 10.1183/13993003.03132-2021
The alarmin(g) effect of interleukin-5 blockade on residual eosinophil function is of clinical consequence Simon Couillard Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2200597; 10.1183/13993003.00597-2022
Reply: Ex vivo SOCS3 gene responsiveness to alarmins in eosinophils of mepolizumab-treated patients is as yet of unknown biological significance Glenn Van Hulst, Joseph Jorssen, Nathalie Jacobs, Monique Henket, Renaud Louis, Florence Schleich, Fabrice Bureau, Christophe J. Desmet Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2200981; 10.1183/13993003.00981-2022
Extracorporeal life support as a bridge to lung transplantation strategy in anti-MDA5+ rapidly progressive interstitial lung disease is life-saving but with persistent difficulties at the bedside Cloé Comarmond, Bruno Mégarbane Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2200817; 10.1183/13993003.00817-2022
Radiomics-derived morphological features predict pulmonary function response during lumacaftor/ivacaftor therapy in patients with cystic fibrosis Bin Zhang, Shuixing Zhang Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2103077; 10.1183/13993003.03077-2021
Diversity of approaches in artificial intelligence: an opportunity for discoveries in thoracic imaging Guillaume Chassagnon, Alienor Campredon, Maria Vakalopoulou, Pierre-Régis Burgel Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2200022; 10.1183/13993003.00022-2022
“Mendelian randomisation and experimental medicine approaches to interleukin-6 as a drug target in pulmonary arterial hypertension.” Mark Toshner, Colin Church, Lars Harbaum, et al. Eur Respir J 2022; 59: 2002463. Eur Respir J, 60 (1) 2052463; 10.1183/13993003.52463-2020