基本説明
Focuses on the pathobiology of chronic obstructive pathology disease and emphysema and its exacerbation and on treatment options.
Full Description
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.
Contents
12: Lung Growth and Development3: The Airway Epithelium4: Epidemiology of COPD5: Genetic Susceptibility and Development of Emphysema6: Pediatric Obstructive Disease7: Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency8: Pathobiology of Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema9: Inflammation in the Pathogenesis of COPD10: COPD - The Dutch Hypothesis11: Environmental Factors of COPD12: Hypersecretion13: Surfactant and Small Airway Diseases14: Diffuse Parenchymal Interstitial Lung in Small Airways 15: Other Large Airway Disease which Limit Airflow16: Bacterial Infections and COPD17: Viral Infections and COPD18: Animal Models of Emphysema19: The Physiology and Lung Function Analysis of Chronic Obstructive Airway Diseases20: Imaging, Chest X-Ray, CT Scanning of Chronic Obstructive Lung Diseases21: Bronchoscopy and Bronchography of Acute and Chronic Bronchitis22: Ventilation/Perfusion Mismatch in COPD23: Pulmonary Hypertension and Cor Pulmonale in COPD24: The Clinical Management of Patients with COPD25: Pharmacotherapy of COPD26: Smoking Cessation27: Respiratory Muscles in COPD28: The "Acute Exacerbation" of COPD29: COPD: A Wasting Disease30: Surgical Treatment and Lung Transplantation in COPD31: From COPD to Lung Cancer