Respiratory Medicine (Concise Medical Textbooks)

This new edition combines practical recommendations with up-to-date reviews of the basic mechanisms of respiratory diseases and their management. New chapters on community and hospital acquired pneumonia, principles of intensive respiratory care, the lung in Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, pulmonary vasculitis and eosinophilia, and sleep disordered breathing. Over 90 new figures have been added, and descriptions include the molecular immunology of lung defences, neural and inflammatory mechanisms of asthma, new devices for inhaler therapy, combination bronchodilators in asthma, chronic bronchitis and emphysema (COPD), new ideas on the pathogenesis and diagnosis of emphysema in life, and clinical role (and prices) of new antibiotics, and thrombolytic therapy in pulmonary embolism.