INTRODUCTION
BRONCHOSCOPY – A TOOL OR A MEDICAL SUBSPECIALITY?
Petr Pohunek

EDITORIAL
PLEURAL EFFUSIONS: THE SEPARATION OF TRANSUDATES AND EXUDATES
Richard W. Light

EDITORIAL
BRONCHOSCOPY TRAINING IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Mohsen Davoudi, Henri G. Colt

EDITORIAL
EXACERBATION OF COPD
Hassan Hosny

ORIGNIAL ARTICLE
AIRWAY WALL THICKNESS IN PATIENTS WITH UNCONTROLLED ASTHMA
Aliaë AR Mohamed-Hussein, Samy AA Sayed

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
INTERVENTIONAL BRONCHOSCOPY: AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL EXPERIENCE
Hassan Hosni, Tarek Safwat, Adel Khattab, Mohamed Abdel Sabour, Gamal Abdel Rahman, Ahmed Nafie, Emad Korra, Ashraf Madkour, Khaled Wagih, Hala Salem,and Nehad Osman, Yasser Mostafa

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
INTERSTITIAL PULMONARY DISEASE IN HEPATITIS C VIRUS PATIENTS
Helmy N. A, Abdelhakim M.M, AbdelRazek N.M, Hany H. A, Essmat G. G, Fouad A. S

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA: THE ROLE OF TYPICAL, ATYPICAL BACTERIA AND FUNGI; COMPARISON BETWEEN ENDOTRACHEAL ASPIRATE AND BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE
Hassan Abukhabar, Samy Atta, Khaled Bedewy, Ahmed Youssef, Ahmed Moustafa

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
DISTAL AIRWAYS BACTERIAL COLONIZATION AND INFLAMMATORY PATTERN IN CHILDREN WITH DIFFERENT CHRONIC LUNG DISEASES: A BRONCHOSCOPIC STUDY
Abdel Khalik KA, El-Seify MY, Abdel Gawad TA, Shaheen MA, Hafez SF, El-Sharkawy AE

RADIOLOGY OF THE MONTH
Mamdouh Mahfouz

CASE REPORT
TENSION GASTROTHORAX: A CASE REPORT AND REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Magdy Zedan, Mohammed El-Ghazaly, Basem Saied, Mohammed El-Bayoumi, Alaa Abdelkader, Ashraf Fouda

REVIEW ARTICLE
SCREENING FOR LUNG CANCER: TO DO OR NOT TO DO?
James R Jett

REVIEW ARTICLE
EXPIRATORY CENTRAL AIRWAY COLLAPSE: A CONCISE REVIEW
Septimiu D. Murgu, Henri G. Colt

REVIEW ARTICLE
SLEEP MEDICINE: AN OVERVIEW
Alaa El-Gendy

REVIEW ARTICLE
APOPTOSIS AND ASTHMA
Amgad Abdel Raouf

REVIEW ARTICLE
TOWARDS A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF BRONCHIAL ASTHMA
Tarek Safwat