Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease

This clinical reference for practitioners offers a new and comprehensive look at chronic obstructive lung disease. Global in scale and importance, it is an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Bringing together a roster of internationally renowned contributors from the front lines of pulmonary medicine and research, it is aimed at practitioners in pulmonary medicine, pathology, thoracic radiology and epidemiology. Its focus is on the pathobiology of chronic obstructive pathology disease and emphysema and its exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and on treatment options. This reference works to 'connect the dots' by collating and centralizing the various data on the subject.

1: Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema: Historical Overview 2: Lung Growth and Development 3: The Airway Epithelium 4: Epidemiology of COPD 5: Genetic Susceptibility and Development of Emphysema 6: Pediatric Obstructive Disease 7: Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency 8: Pathobiology of Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema 9: Inflammation in the Pathogenesis of COPD 10: COPD - The Dutch Hypothesis 11: Environmental Factors of COPD 12: Hypersecretion 13: Surfactant and Small Airway Diseases 14: Diffuse Parenchymal Interstitial Lung in Small Airways 15: Other Large Airway Disease which Limit Airflow 16: Bacterial Infections and COPD 17: Viral Infections and COPD 18: Animal Models of Emphysema 19: The Physiology and Lung Function Analysis of Chronic Obstructive Airway Diseases 20: Imaging, Chest X-Ray, CT Scanning of Chronic Obstructive Lung Diseases 21: Bronchoscopy and Bronchography of Acute and Chronic Bronchitis 22: Ventilation/Perfusion Mismatch in COPD 23: Pulmonary Hypertension and Cor Pulmonale in COPD 24: The Clinical Management of Patients with COPD 25: Pharmacotherapy of COPD 26: Smoking Cessation 27: Respiratory Muscles in COPD 28: The "Acute Exacerbation" of COPD 29: COPD: A Wasting Disease 30: Surgical Treatment and Lung Transplantation in COPD 31: From COPD to Lung Cancer

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