Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine: Volume 41-3

This issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, guest-edited by Dr. Gerard Criner and Dr. Bartolome Celli, is focused on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Topics discussed in this issue include but are not limited to: COPD Pathogenesis; Epidemiology of COPD; Host, Gender, and Early Life Factors as Risks for COPD; Alpha One Antitrypsin Deficiency; Lung Function Testing; Assessing Symptom Burden; Chest Imaging in the Diagnosis and Assessment of the Patient with COPD; Biomarkers in the Diagnosis and Assessment of COPD; Asthma/COPD Overlap; Multimorbidity in the Patient with COPD; Definition Causes, Pathogenesis, and Consequences of Exacerbations; Treatment of Acute Exacerbations; Prevention of Exacerbations; Bronchodilators; Benefits and Risks of Inhaled Corticosteroids in COPD; Systemic Medications; Smoking Cessation/Vaccinations; Pulmonary Rehabilitation; Oxygen Therapy/Noninvasive Ventilation; and Interventional and Surgical Therapies for COPD.

Product details

• Assisted by: Bartolome R Celli (Editor), Celli Bartolome R. (Editor), Gerard Criner (Editor)
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Released: 25.08.2020
• EAN: 9780323683043
• ISBN: 978-0-323-68304-3
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 770 g
• Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine, Respiratory medicine, COPD; pulmonary; corticosteroids