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LEAD ADVISORS David Hotchkin, MD, MSc Providence Portland Medical Center, USA Louis S. Libby, MD Oregon Health and Sciences University, USA Carolyn Welsh, MD University of Colorado, USA GLOBAL ADVISORY BOARD Official Peer-Reviewed Highlights From the American Thoracic Society International Conference 2013 John Anderson, MD ADA President, Medicine & Science Philip E. Aylward, BM BCh, PhD Flinders Medical Centre, Australia Alfred Bove, MD, PhD Temple University, USA FEATURES Jeroen J. Bax, MD, PhD Leiden University, The Netherlands Marc P. Bonaca, MD, MPH 6 Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile Anthony J. Dalby, MB, ChB, FCP Milpark Hospital, South Africa Prevention and Early Treatment of Acute Lung Injury 8 Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA Ramon Corbalán, MD Nocturnal Noninvasive Ventilation Improves Outcomes in Multiple Disorders 10 Hospital Readmissions: Challenges and Opportunities Gaetano M. De Ferrari, MD University of Pavia, Italy Nihar R. Desai, MD, MPH CLINICAL TRIAL HIGHLIGHTS Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA Jean-Pierre Després, PhD 14 Data Link Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Type 2 Diabetes Université Laval, Canada Michael Farkouh, MD, MSc Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, University Health Network, Canada 15 Statin Use Improves Respiratory-Related Mortality in Patients Vivian A. Fonseca, MD, FRCP With COPD Tulane University, USA Timothy J. Gardner, MD 15 Addition of Spironolactone to Ambrisentan May Be a Novel Treatment Strategy Christiana Care Center for Heart & Vascular Health, USA to Improve Outcome in Patients With PAH Steven Mark Greenberg, MD, PhD Chair, International Stroke Conference Gregory R. Giugliano, MD, SM 16 Haloperidol Does Not Prevent Delirium in Ventilated ICU Patients Baystate Medical Center, USA Robert P. Giugliano, MD, SM Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA 17 Beraprost Plus Sildenafil Effective in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA 18 Dupilumab Is Safe and Effective for Controlling Asthma Attacks Shom Goel, MD Eva Gonçalvesova, MD, PhD Past-President, Slovak Society of Cardiology 19 Once-Daily QVA149 Improves Breathlessness in COPD Patients Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD 20 CPAP in CVD and OSA Does Not Significantly Improve Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA Nigel Key, MD Cardiovascular Biomarkers University of North Carolina, USA Bindee Kuriya, MD, FRCPC, MS University of Toronto, Canada 20 CPAP Reduces BP in Patients With Resistant Hypertension Elgene Lim, MD, PhD Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Milan Luknar, MD National Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Slovak Republic 21 Effects of Obesity on COPD Elena M. Massarotti, MD Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA SELECTED UPDATES Raymond Massay, MD Past-President, Caribbean Cardiac Society Michael Micksche, MD 24 Pulmonary Embolism Mary-Elizabeth Patti, MD 26 Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Fausto Pinto, MD 28 Lung Cancer Screening Geralyn R. Spollett, MSN, ANP-BC, CDE 30 Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Sara Tolaney, MD, MPH 32 Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer University of Vienna, Austria Chair, ADA Scientific Sessions Planning Committee University of Lisbon, Portugal ADA President, Health Care & Education Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA Jacob A. 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MD Conference Express ATS 2013
Contents
Prevention and Early Treatment of Acute Lung Injury
Nocturnal Noninvasive Ventilation Improves Outcomes in Multiple Disorders
Hospital Readmissions: Challenges and Opportunities
EBUS-TBNA: Accurate and Safe for Detecting Sarcoidosis
Data Link Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Type 2 Diabetes
Statin Use Improves Respiratory-Related Mortality in Patients With COPD
Addition of Spironolactone to Ambrisentan May Be a Novel Treatment Strategy to Improve Outcome in Patients With PAH
Haloperidol Does Not Prevent Delirium in Ventilated ICU Patients
Beraprost Plus Sildenafil Effective in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Dupilumab Is Safe and Effective for Controlling Asthma Attacks
Once-Daily QVA149 Improves Breathlessness in COPD Patients
CPAP in CVD and OSA Does Not Significantly Improve Cardiovascular Biomarkers
CPAP Reduces BP in Patients With Resistant Hypertension and Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Effects of Obesity on COPD
Pulmonary Embolism
Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
Lung Cancer Screening
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer

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