Thorax

Papers
(The TQCC of Thorax is 9. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Beware, vaping e-cigarettes around children is adversely impacting their lung health155
Ablation for lung cancer: hot or cold intervention103
Vaping and CBD: can new technology overcome old problems?101
Case-based discussion: neonates on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for undiagnosed recalcitrant pulmonary hypertension—management challenges95
Journal club82
Rectal organoid morphometric analysis (ROMA)—re: optimising measurements automatically82
Correction:British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 202377
E-cigarette use in young adults and adolescents: not so safe?75
Fibrosing mediastinitis: ‘haemoptysis in the Heartland’74
Strengthening the evidence base to support stronger regulation of social media based advertising of e-cigarette products to youth58
Serum IgA isotypes are associated with percent emphysema, wall thickness and lung function decline57
Ultrafine particles and health: the next frontier in understanding air pollution hazards57
British Thoracic Society Guideline for pleural disease56
Neuropsychiatric diagnoses after montelukast initiation in paediatric patients with asthma56
Lung development genes, adult lung function and cardiovascular comorbidities54
Complex coexistence of COPD and cardiovascular disease52
TB PCR in BAL and EBUS-TBNA samples for the diagnosis of pulmonary and mediastinal lymph node TB: retrospective TRiBE study51
Is the provision of a national opt-out tobacco dependence treatment service in acute hospitals in England equitable? A national cohort study50
Ultra-low-dose CT versus chest X-ray for patients suspected of pulmonary disease at the emergency department: a multicentre randomised clinical trial49
Ambient heat exposure and COPD hospitalisations in England: a nationwide case-crossover study during 2007–201847
Correction:RAGE-induced ILC2 expansion in acute lung injury due to haemorrhagic shock46
Toxic metals and lung health: silent poisons?46
Emulated trial investigating effects of multiple treatments: estimating combined effects of mucoactive nebulisers in cystic fibrosis using registry data46
Highlights from this issue46
Muscle memory: genetic factors underlying functional impairment in COPD45
Implications of the 2022 lung function update and GLI global reference equations among patients with interstitial lung disease44
Delayed presentation of pulmonary Echinococcus in a patient with no major risk factors44
Differentiation of malignant from benign pleural effusions based on artificial intelligence44
Lower airway microbiota in COPD and healthy controls43
Ageing and ivacaftor: unravelling the long-term effects43
Paediatric asthma hospitalisations continue to decrease in Finland and Sweden between 2015 and 202043
Impact of sex on severe asthma: a cross-sectional retrospective analysis of UK primary and specialist care42
Intensive care unit interventions to promote sleep and circadian biology in reducing incident delirium: a scoping review42
Greenhouse gas emissions associated with suboptimal asthma care in the UK: the SABINA healthCARe-Based envirONmental cost of treatment (CARBON) study42
Lung function as independent predictor of cardiovascular disease risk: implications for practice and policy39
BTS Clinical Statement on air travel for passengers with respiratory disease38
COPD in Africa: risk factors, hospitalisation, readmission and associated outcomes—a systematic review and meta-analysis38
Short-term exposure to ultrafine particles and asthma hospital admissions in children in Copenhagen, Denmark37
Prevalence of lung cysts in adolescents and adults with a germlineDICER1pathogenic/likely pathogenic variant: a report from the National Institutes of Health and International Pleuropulmonary B36
Association between vitamin D status at 3 years and eosinophilic asthma in 6-year-old children with a history of severe bronchiolitis36
Activation of epithelial and inflammatory pathways in adolescent elite athletes exposed to intense exercise and air pollution35
Correction:British thoracic Society Winter Meeting 202234
Past, present and future of conservative oxygen therapy in critical care34
Smart steps forward: the role of wearables in long-term rehabilitation after lung transplantation34
Functional impairment in COPD can be predicted using genomic-derived data34
Air athletes breathe: weighing benefits against harm32
Case of hot tub lung showing a shadow distribution consistent with unequal ventilation31
Basement membrane repair response biomarker PRO-C4 predicts progression in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: analysis of the PFBIO and PROFILE cohorts31
Invasive pulmonary infection caused byTrichoderma longibrachiatum31
Adolescent exercise capacity predicts higher exercise tolerance later in life when compounded by anaemia in patients with pulmonary arteriovenous malformations31
Topological data analysis identifies molecular phenotypes of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis30
Early experience of a new national lung allocation scheme in the UK based on clinical urgency30
Testosterone and lung function: bigger lungs, slower decline or some combination of both?29
Quantitative BAL: a suitable method for the assessment of epithelial lining fluid in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency?29
Web-based physical activity promotion in young people with CF: a randomised controlled trial29
Highlights from this issue29
Medical management of inpatients with tobacco dependency28
Recent trends in asthma diagnosis, preschool wheeze diagnosis and asthma exacerbations in English children and adolescents: a SABINA Jr study28
British Thoracic Society Clinical Statement on pulmonary rehabilitation27
Human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical dysplasia in adult female cystic fibrosis (CF) lung transplant recipients27
Sleep-disordered breathing in children and adults with intellectual disability: mind the gap!27
Parenchymal lung abnormalities following hospitalisation for COVID-19 and viral pneumonitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis27
A syndrome by any other name: playing the long-term outcome CARDS27
Silicone depositions: an unusual finding in the explanted and newly transplanted lungs26
Impact of ambient air pollution on lung function in preterm-born school-aged children26
Untangling the web between menopause and respiratory disease26
Systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy of biologic and targeted synthetic therapies in sarcoidosis26
Heat-related hospitalisations for asthma – challenges for research26
Journal club25
Effect of simvastatin on postoperative complications in patients undergoing one-lung ventilation during surgery: the Prevention HARP-2 randomised controlled trial25
Management of a complex thoracic infection, one compartment at a time25
Blood eosinophils take centre stage in predicting the response to sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT): a familiar twist24
MAC attack: MSCs and macrophages join forces against chronic lung infection24
Effects of traditional mind–body movement therapy on chronic cardiopulmonary dyspnoea: a systematic review and meta-analysis24
Understanding the effectiveness of different exercise training programme designs on V̇O2peakin COPD: a component network meta-analysis23
Early prediction of bronchopulmonary dysplasia by urinary metabolomics: a case–control study23
Decline in prevalence of tuberculosis following an intensive case finding campaign and the COVID-19 pandemic in an urban Ugandan community23
Factors associated with guideline-concordant maintenance inhaled medication for COPD: a population-based, longitudinal cohort study22
Effects of azithromycin in severe eosinophilic asthma with concomitant monoclonal antibody treatment22
Mediators of systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD): systematic review and meta-analyses22
Association of fluoroquinolones with the risk of spontaneous pneumothorax: nationwide case–time–control study22
Comprehensive analysis of environmental exposure to hazardous trace elements and lung function: a national cross-sectional study22
Combined effect of ozone and household air pollution on COPD in people aged less than 50 years old22
Why asthma progresses to COPD: environmental and genetic drivers22
Fixing lung health in the UK: accelerating respiratory research and innovation22
Observational UK cohort study to describe intermittent oral corticosteroid prescribing patterns and their association with adverse outcomes in asthma22
Reduced lung function and health-related quality of life after treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis in Gambian children: a cross-sectional comparative study21
Comparing tests in the absence of a reference standard21
Searching, again, for answers in all the wrong places20
MUC5B, telomere length and longitudinal quantitative interstitial lung changes: the MESA Lung Study20
Correction:Impact of COVID-19 national lockdown on asthma exacerbations: interrupted time-series analysis of English primary care data20
Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on lung cancer survival in England: an analysis of the rapid cancer registration dataset20
Epithelial damage and ageing: the perfect storm19
Effect of mesenchymal stem cells on the host response in severe community-acquired pneumonia19
Variability in sensitivity to inflammation in muscle and lung of patients with COPD may underlie susceptibility to lung function decline18
Evaluation of a health and social care programme to improve outcomes following critical illness: a multicentre study18
Inequalities in care and the burden of wheeze and asthma in young children from diverse socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds18
Effect of time of day and seasonal variation on bronchodilator responsiveness: the SPIRO-TIMETRY study18
Derivation and validation of a simple multidimensional index incorporating exercise capacity parameters for survival prediction in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis18
Maternal prenatal carotenoids and child lung function: exploration of modifying factors17
Journal club17
Pulmonary arterio-venous malformation on endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscopy17
Real-world effectiveness and safety of nirsevimab, RSV maternal vaccine and RSV vaccines for older adults: a living systematic review and meta-analysis17
QCOVID in Scotland: time to recalibrate our expectations?17
Cause-specific mortality in COPD subpopulations: a cohort study of 339 647 people in England17
Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation during outpatient-managed acute COPD exacerbation: the latest new PR model?17
Does impaired respiratory function lead to sudden cardiac death?17
Variability in forced expiratory volume in 1 s in children with symptomatically well-controlled asthma17
Rare case of bilateral lung nodules17
COPD basal cells are primed towards secretory to multiciliated cell imbalance driving increased resilience to environmental stressors17
What’s new in pleural disease?17
Computational fluid dynamics model predictions of inhaled corticosteroid deposition in patients with severe asthma16
Sex differences in COPD in relation to smoking exposure: a population-based cohort study16
Challenging the gold standard: the limitations of molecular assays for detection ofMycobacterium tuberculosisheteroresistance16
Circulating miRNAs and childhood asthma ICS response: a stratified analysis in the intervention arm of an RCT with vitamin D effect modification16
Correction: What’s hot that the other lot got16
Airflow obstruction and small airway dysfunction following pulmonary tuberculosis: a cross-sectional survey16
New statement and new hope for patients with refractory chronic cough16
Improving lung cancer screening: the role and challenges of risk prediction models16
Time to move out of the shadows: ILA in patients with lung cancer16
Spirometry phenotypes at 8 years in children born extremely preterm or with extremely low birth weight16
British Thoracic Society Guideline for diagnosing and monitoring paediatric sleep-disordered breathing16
Classifying ARDS by dynamic or static oxygenation impairment or are other approaches needed for greater value15
High-flow nasal oxygen: benefits are hard to show in COVID-19 patients with mild hypoxaemia15
Circulating cell-free double-stranded DNA and metabolic derangements in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a new association15
Atopic and non-atopic effects of fish oil supplementation during pregnancy15
Persistent alveolar inflammatory response in critically ill patients with COVID-19 is associated with mortality15
Reversible bronchiectasis15
Novel electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy system for the diagnosis of peripheral pulmonary nodules: a prospective, multicentre study15
Selective androgen receptor modulation for muscle weakness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomised control trial15
Collagen neoepitopes in sarcoidosis: what do they tell us?15
Donor lung allocation scheme: how can we measure success?14
Journal club14
To progress or not to progress: new insights into the evolution of pleuropulmonary blastomas come from studying lung cysts in adolescents and adults withDICER1-related tumour predisposition14
Multiple intrathoracic extramedullary haematopoiesis as visualised on medical thoracoscopy14
Laryngeal widening and adequate ventilation by expiratory pressure load training improve aerobic capacity in COPD: a randomised controlled trial14
Clinical presentation and prognosis of acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism in patients with concomitant upper-extremity versus lower-extremity deep vein thrombosis13
Cytisinicline for smoking cessation in individuals with self-reported COPD: a post hoc analysis of the ORCA-2 and ORCA-3 trials13
Asthma exacerbations are associated with a decline in lung function: a longitudinal population-based study13
A prospective longitudinal study of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis in pulmonary tuberculosis in Indonesia (APICAL)13
Lung epithelial cells interact with immune cells and bacteria to shape the microenvironment in tuberculosis13
Identifying a hyperinflammatory subphenotype of ARDS associated with worse outcomes: may ferritin help?13
Advanced MicroRNA delivery for lung inflammatory therapy: surfactant protein A controls cellular internalisation and degradation of extracellular vesicles13
Effects of enhanced recovery after surgery plus pulmonary rehabilitation on complications after video-assisted lung cancer surgery: a multicentre randomised controlled trial13
Safety, feasibility and efficacy of exercise as an airway clearance technique in cystic fibrosis: a randomised pilot feasibility trial13
Role of inflammasomes in acute respiratory distress syndrome13
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations may be the only clinical criterion present in genetically confirmed hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia13
Angiosarcoma of the pulmonary artery as an unexpected evolution of an apparent pulmonary thromboembolism13
Type-2 inflammation: a key treatable trait associated with lung function decline in chronic airways disease13
Bacterial biofilms predominate in both acute and chronic human lung infections13
Symptom-related screening programme for early detection of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after acute pulmonary embolism: the SYSPPE study13
Air pollution, genetic susceptibility and risk of progression from asthma to COPD13
Respiratory research in the UK: investing for the next 10 years12
Improving uptake of lung cancer screening: an observational study on the impact of timed appointments and reminders12
Journal club12
Artificial stone silicosis arrives in the UK: a tragic case of history repeating12
Optimising breathlessness triggered services for older people with advanced diseases: a multicentre economic study (OPTBreathe)12
Assessing causal relationships between diabetes mellitus and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a Mendelian randomisation study12
Journal club12
Disease monitoring using lung function trajectory in lymphangioleiomyomatosis: assessment in two national cohorts12
Oscillatory positive expiratory pressure therapy in COPD (O-COPD): a randomised controlled trial12
Consolidation with pseudocavitation12
Correction:Night shift work is associated with an increased risk of asthma12
Improvements of the shape and strength of the diaphragm after endoscopic lung volume reduction12
Opportunistic actinomycosis in pulmonary alveolar proteinosis12
Usual interstitial pneumonia on CT: same pattern, different prognosis11
Immediate smoking cessation support during lung cancer screening: long-term outcomes from two randomised controlled trials11
Automatic analysis of bronchus-artery dimensions to diagnose and monitor airways disease in cystic fibrosis11
How ExACTly does exercise compare as an alternative to traditional airway clearance techniques in people with cystic fibrosis?11
Combining tuberculin skin test with follow-on interferon gamma release assay markedly improves screening of household contacts11
Journal club11
Comparative estimate of glucose-lowering therapies on risk of incident pneumonia and severe sepsis: an analysis of real-world cohort data11
Optimised oxygenation improves functional capacity during daily activities in patients with COPD on long-term oxygen therapy: a randomised crossover trial11
Remote vision-based digital patient monitoring of pulse and respiratory rates in acute medical wards11
Risk of hypersensitivity pneumonitis and other interstitial lung diseases following organic dust exposure11
Altered purine metabolism at reperfusion affects clinical outcome in lung transplantation11
Definition of diaphragmatic sleep disordered breathing and clinical meaning in Duchenne muscular dystrophy11
Multicentre evaluation of two multiplex PCR platforms for the rapid microbiological investigation of nosocomial pneumonia in UK ICUs: the INHALE WP1 study10
Bacterial multiplex polymerase chain reaction tests for the diagnosis and management of pneumonia: ready for prime time?10
Journal club10
Persistent hypoxaemia and a headache in a previously healthy 11-year-old girl10
Tobacco industry ownership of pharmaceutical companies: an international survey of people with respiratory disease10
Mild elevation of pulmonary vascular resistance predicts mortality regardless of mean pulmonary artery pressure in mild interstitial lung disease10
Patient stratification using plasma cytokines and their regulators in sepsis: relationship to outcomes, treatment effect and leucocyte transcriptomic subphenotypes10
High-dose rifamycins in the treatment of TB: a systematic review and meta-analysis10
Respiratory and allergic outcomes among 5-year-old children exposed to pesticides10
Journal club10
Future risk projection to engage �near-miss� individuals in lung cancer screening eligibility: an analysis of ILST data10
Spontaneous intrapulmonary haemorrhage in vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome10
British Thoracic Society Clinical Statement on occupational asthma10
Impact of COPD on cardiovascular risk factors and outcomes in people with established cardiovascular disease10
Journal club10
Impacts of sex and gender on severe asthma10
Higher SARS-CoV-2 detection of oropharyngeal compared with nasopharyngeal or saliva specimen for molecular testing: a multicentre randomised comparative accuracy study10
Post-pandemic tuberculosis incidence: potential success of active case finding?10
Higher exhaled nitric oxide at 6 weeks of age is associated with less bronchiolitis and wheeze in the first 12 months of age10
Tracheal stenosis after endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration9
Rare occurrence of tracheal acinic cell carcinoma causing central airway obstruction in a young adult9
Cost-related non-adherence to medications among adults with asthma in the USA, 2011–20229
Nocturnal gastro-oesophageal reflux and pulmonary abnormalities on chest CT in a general population: the Swedish CArdioPulmonary BioImage Study9
Multimodality curative-intent treatment in NSCLC: an unprecedented era of change 2017–20259
Understanding the aetiology of lung function impairment: the crucial role of age of onset9
Highlights from this issue9
Antenatal exposures to tobacco and biomass or fossil fuels and wheezing in early childhood in South Africa9
Cardiac MRI in the assessment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension and response to treatment9
Cost-effectiveness of ambulatory care management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax: an open-label, randomised controlled trial9
Associations of interstitial lung disease subtype and CT pattern with lung function and survival9
Decoding pulmonary nodules: can machine learning enhance malignancy risk stratification?9
Environmental pollutants exposure-derived extracellular vesicles: crucial players in respiratory disorders9
Common idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis risk variants are associated with hypersensitivity pneumonitis9
Extensive airway remodelling in severe COPD imparts resiliency to environmental stressors9
In search of the elusive biomarker(s): a proteomics analysis in rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease9
All that pops is not necessarily a pneumothorax!9
Chronic berylliosis disease: uncommon pulmonary granulomas beyond sarcoidosis9
Pulmonary tuberculosis associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: a pharmacovigilance study9
What shall we learn from TEACH?9
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