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Informationen zum Autor Professor Robert Stockley is the Head of Department at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. He is a respiratory physician working in the field of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Professor Stephen Rennard is Larson Professor of Medicine in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. He is the North American Editor for Respiratory Medicine and Associate Editor for COPD for the European Respiratory Journal . Professor Klaus Rabe is Professor of Pulmonary Medicine and Chairman for the Department of Pneumology in the University of Leiden. He has been active in various fields of respiratory medicine in Europe and was the first European Associate Editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine . He is co-Chief Editor of the European Respiratory Journal . Dr Bart Celli is Professor of Medicine at Tufts University in Boston and Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the St Elizabeth's Medical Center at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is the author of more than 120 publications on COPD and is the co-editor of Baum's Textbook of Pulmonary Diseases and Hodgkin's Textbook in Pulmonary Rehabilitation . Klappentext The only international clinical textbook in the Specialty, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is the first up-to-date reference source to include the latest national and international guidelines and newer therapeutic agents in COPD treatment. An international team of experts cover all aspects of COPD-from physiology and epidemiology to diagnosis and treatment - and include everything the busy physician needs in order to understand, diagnose and treat the COPD patient: Structure and physiology of the respiratory system epidemiology, host defences, inflammation, secretion and pathogenesis Clinical considerations and allied conditions includes exacerbations associated with the condition Therapy (including current and developing treatments) rehabilitation, social and ventilatory support, smoking cessation, long-term oxygen therapy and surgery Current and developing treatments anti-cholinergics, beta agonists, steroids, inhibitors, antibacterial, antioxidants, mucolytics and immunisation Diagnostic tests used in daily practice clinical studies, outcome measures and research Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is the only authoritative, global reference source for all health care professionals worldwide involved in the management and treatment of patients with COPD. Zusammenfassung The only international clinical textbook for COPD - one of the top 5 causes of death and disability worldwide. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors. Preface. Section 1: Physiology . 1. Structure-Function Relationships: the Pathophysiology of Airflow Obstruction ( Dennis E. Niewoehner) . 2. The Physiology of Breathlessness (D onald A. Mahler). 3. The Physiology of Muscle ( Ghislaine Gayan-Ramirez and Marc Decramer ). 4. Exercise Limitations and Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in COPD ( Norman R. Morris, Lewis Adams, Bruce D. Johnson and Idelle M. Weisman). 5. Clinical Assessment of Control of Breathing ( Joseph Milic-Emili and Antonia Koutsoukou). 6. Physiology and Pathobiology of the Lung Circulation ( Norbert F. Voelkel). 7. Sleep in Patients with COPD ( Mark W. Elliott ). 8. The Physiology of Cough ( Marian Kollarik and Bradley J. Undem ). 9. The Physiology of Gas Exchange ( Robert Rodriguez-Roisin, Andrés Echazarreta, Federico P. Gómez and Joan Albert Barberà) . Sect...
