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Focussed specifically on children and pediatric respiratory diseases, "The Pediatric Lung+" reviews the current status of pharmacological therapy for asthma, viral pneumonia, cystic fibrosis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia and acute respiratory failure. A review of aerosol delivery systems in children and an up-to-date treatise on mucolytic agents is also included. The chapters are written by leading specialists in the field and summarize the latest developments in pediatric pulmonology, as well as covering a comprehensive range of respiratory diseases in children. Pediatric pulmonologists, allergologists, intensivists, neonatologists and general pediatricians will find "The Pediatric Lung" an invaluable source of reference. Clinicians will be particularly interested in the new information concerning aerosol delivery systems, gene therapy for cystic fibrosis, new modalities of therapy for asthma, the emerging role of nitric oxide and a treatise on modern mycolytic agents.
List of contents
1. Aerosol Delivery Systems in Children.- 2. Nedocromil Sodium in Children.- 3. Corticosteroids in Pediatric Asthma.- 4. Viral Pneumonia and Antiviral Therapy in Children.- 5. Anti-inflammatory Therapies for Chronic Lung Diseases in Children.- 6. Treatment of Acute Life-Threatening Asthma in Children.- 7. Mucoactive Agents: Old and New.- 8. Aerosol Therapies for Cystic Fibrosis.- 9. Surfactant Replacement Therapies in Children.- 10. Gene Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis Lung Disease.- 11. New Therapies for Asthma.- 12. The Physiology and Pathophysiology of Nitric Oxide in the Lung.- 13. Pharmacological Strategies for the Treatment of the Basic Defect in Cystic Fibrosis.
