COPD, An Issue of Medical Clinics

This issue of Medical Clinics of North America provides the latest essential updates on COPD. The following topics are covered: pathobiological mechanisms; genes and the disease (alpha-l-antitrypsin); the environment, phenotype, and comorbidity; the role and potential of imaging; pulmonary function and its importance; exercise in testing and therapy; patients' perception and quality of life; exacerbations, causes, prevention, and treatment; an integrated approach to the medical treatment; meducal pneumoplasty, surgical resection, or lung transplant; and smoking cessation and environmental hygiene.

Product details

• Authors: Bartolome R Celli, Bartolome R. Celli, Celli Bartolome R., Stephen I Rennard, Stephen I. Rennard, Stephen I. Rennard
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Science
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.07.2012
• EAN: 9781455738908
• ISBN: 978-1-4557-3890-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 14 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine, Respiratory medicine