Full Description
This major text has been conceived by the authors to highlight the wide range of conditions associated with COPD, many of which develop as a consequence of the therapeutic interventions currently employed. With the involvement of the renal, musculoskeletal and immune systems in particular, long-term care of the COPD patient is no longer the responsibility of the pulmonologist alone but involves physicians from a range of clinical specialties. This volumes describes the evolution and progression of these problems and the means by which they should be managed. "COPD as a Systemic Disease" is intended to have broad appeal to respiratory physicians and pulmonologists, specialists in allergy and infectious diseases, as well as members of the research community.
Contents
1. COPD as a Systemic Disease2. COPD and comorbidity: a common pathophysiological process, RA Stockley; 3. Systemic effects of cigarette smoke exposure, JA Barbera; 4. Systemic response to fine particulate air pollution, SF van Eeden; 5. Association between COPD and systemic inflammation, EFM Wouters; 6. Pulmonary and systemic oxidant/antioxidant imbalance in COPD, tbc; 7. Systemic inflammation during exacerbations of COPD, RA Stockley; 8. Skeletal and respiratory muscle dysfunction in the systemic inflammatory response syndrome, JG Guiral; 9. Weight loss in COPD, tbc; 10. Cardiovascular diseases in COPD, DD Sin; 11. COPD and osteoporosis, CE Bolton; 12. Endocrinological changes in COPD, F Laghi; 13. Hypercoagulability state in patients with COPD, C Saltini; 14. The potential impact of anaemia of chronic disease in COPD, T Similowski; 15. Systemic inflammation and multidimensional staging system for COPD, B Celli; 16. Effects of pharmacological therapy on systemic inflammation in COPD, M Cazzola; 17. Nutritional and metabolic modulation in COPD, AM Schols; 18. Systemic inflammation in COPD: implications for lung transplantation, FJ Martinez; List of Abbreviations; Index.
