Full Description
This brand new text has been written by internationally renowned authors at the front lines of pulmonary medicine research. COPD is a problem of increasing global importance, and this reference successfully brings together all the latest developments in the field in a single volume. It focuses particularly on the pathobiology of COPD and treatment options available.
Contents
Foreword 1. Chronic Bronchitis and EmphysemaLung 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 Involvement 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. Ventilation/Perfusion Mismatch in COPD 22. Pulmonary Hypertension and Cor Pulmonale in COPD 23. The Clinical Management of Patients with COPD 24. Pharmacotherapy of COPD 25. Smoking Cessation 26. Respiratory Muscles in COPD 27. The "Acute Exacerbation" of COPD 28. COPD: A Wasting Disease 29. Surgical Treatment and Lung Transplantation in COPD 30. From COPD to Lung Cancer
