AJTCCM Vol. 28 No. 3

Issue highlights


Invasive fungal infections in a paediatric intensive care unit in a lower- middle-income country


Comparison of outcomes between children ventilated in a non‐paediatric intensive care and a paediatric intensive care unit: A retrospective analysis


Hydatid disease of the ribs: An exceptional location

AJTCCM Vol. 28 No. 4

Issue highlights


Sarcoidosis in Johannesburg, South Africa: A retrospective study


Role of chest radiograph in predicting the need for ventilator support in COVID‐19 patients


Criteria for progressive fibrotic hypersensitivity pneumonitis in a Portuguese patient cohort


The utility of chest ultrasound-guided fine-needle biopsy in the diagnosis of plasmacytoma


Over-prescription of short-acting β2-agonists for asthma in South Africa: Results from the SABINA III study

AJTCCM Vol. 29 No. 1

Issue highlights


Knowledge, practices and beliefs of students regarding health effects of shisha use in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: A cross‐sectional study 


Assessing and comparing chest radiograph interpretation in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand medical school, according to seniority 


Outcomes of patients with haematological malignancies and febrile neutropenia in the Universitas Academic Hospital multidisciplinary intensive care unit, Free State Province, South Africa 

AJTCCM Vol. 29 No. 2

Issue highlights


Asthma in the intensive care unit: A review of patient characteristics and outcomes


Complementary value of the shock index v. the modified shock index in the prediction of in-hospital intensive care unit admission and mortality: A single-centre experience


Clinicians’ interpretation of ventilation/perfusion lung scan reports: Where are we today?

AJTCCM Vol. 29 No. 3

Issue highlights


Comparison of the diagnostic yield of transbronchial lung biopsies by forceps and cryoprobe in diffuse parenchymal lung disease


Pulmonary endarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension in Cape Town, South Africa


Silicosis and silicotuberculosis among respiratory hospital admissions: A cross-sectional survey in northern Tanzania


Pulmonary hypertension in adults completing tuberculosis treatment


A point-prevalence study of body mass indices in HIV-positive and HIV-negative patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in South Africa

AJTCCM Vol. 29 No. 4

Issue highlights


Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in South Africa: Experience from a single centre in the private sector


Ventilator-associated pneumonia in an academic intensive care unit in Johannesburg, South Africa


Non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis: A single-centre retrospective study in Johannesburg, South Africa

AJTCCM Vol. 30 No. 1

Issue highlights


High-flow nasal oxygen in resource-constrained, non-intensive, high-care wards for COVID-19 acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure


The significance of monitoring respiratory sample cultures and polymerase chain reaction tests for detecting bacterial pathogens in severely and critically ill patients with COVID-19


3-Tesla cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in primary dilated cardiomyopathy

AJTCCM Vol. 30 No. 2

Issue highlights


The need for smoking cessation counselling and nicotine withdrawal therapy for hospitalised patients: A smoking point prevalence study at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa


Tracheobronchial foreign body aspiration in children in Soweto, South Africa: A retrospective descriptive study


Severe lower respiratory tract infections are associated with human adenovirus in hospitalised children in a high HIV prevalence area


The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lung cancer presentation at a high- volume tertiary referral centre in South Africa

AJTCCM Vol. 30 No. 3




ORIGINAL RESEARCH: ARTICLES


Rituximab therapy in severe connective tissue disease- associated interstitial lung disease: A retrospective single-centre observational study


Pulmonary manifestations of the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies in a South African population


Vitamin D status in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa


Surgery for bronchiectasis in children living with HIV: A case series from a low- to middle-income country


The impact of mild COVID‐19 on medium‐term respiratory function





REVIEW


Interventions to reduce the impact of outdoor air pollution on asthma: A systematic review







AJTCCM Vol. 30 No. 4




ORIGINAL RESEARCH: ARTICLES


Safety and yield of sputum induction for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children in a tertiary hospital in Ghana


Bronchiectasis in children in a high HIV and tuberculosis prevalence setting


Serum chitotriosidase activity in South African patients with sarcoidosis and tuberculosis


The utility of procalcitonin as a biomarker of hospital-acquired infection in severe COVID-19


 




AJTCCM Vol. 31 No. 1




ORIGINAL RESEARCH: ARTICLES


An open intensive care unit (ICU) model is a viable option for the acute expansion of ICU capacity in the state sector: A study of a needs-based strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic in a tertiary ICU in South Africa


Feasibility and safety of transbronchial lung cryobiopsy and mediastinal lymph node cryobiopsy: Experience from a resource- limited African setting 


Computed tomography chest imaging for the detection of pulmonary hypertension in patients with post-tuberculosis lung disease


The utility of transbronchial cryobiopsy performed under conscious sedation for interstitial lung diseases in a resource- constrained setting


Pulmonary ultrasound in COVID‐19 and non‐COVID‐19 pneumonia in South Africa: An observational study