Oxford Desk Reference: Respiratory Medicine

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ISBN: 9780199239122 | 0199239126
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Copyright: 8/17/2009

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Respiratory medicine is an evolving specialty in which the amount of available information is growing daily and spread across a myriad of books, journals, and websites. The Oxford Desk Reference: Respiratory Medicine is an essential resource that brings this information together in an easy-to-use format, allowing you to access it when it is most needed. It also includes key points and authors' tips; crucial nuggets of information that can only come from those working at the forefront of the field.

Abbreviations	p. xi
Contributors	p. xv
The healthy lung	p. 1
Pulmonary anatomy	p. 2
Radiology of the healthy chest	p. 4
Respiratory physiology	p. 9
Basic physiology	p. 10
Lung function tests: a guide to interpretation	p. 18
Exercise testing	p. 24
interpretation of arterial blood gases and acid/base balance	p. 28
Respiratory muscle function	p. 32
Clinical presentations	p. 35
Chronic cough	p. 36
Breathlessness	p. 38
Haemoptysis	p. 40
Chest pain	p. 42
Pre-operative assessment	p. 44
Solitary pulmonary nodule	p. 46
Wheeze	p. 50
The acute admission with a new unilateral pleural effusion	p. 54
Unexplained respiratory failure	p. 56
Asthma	p. 59
Pathophysiology	p. 60
Allergic rhinitis	p. 64
Pharmacology	p. 68
Asthma in pregnancy	p. 76
Acute asthma	p. 78
Chronic asthma management	p. 82
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	p. 89
COPD genetics and epidemiology	p. 90
COPD pathophysiology	p. 92
Investigations in COPD	p. 98
Pharmacological therapy (including cor pulmonale)	p. 100
N on-pharmacological management for COPD	p. 106
Management of an exacerbation of COPD	p. 112
Surgery for COPD	p. 116
Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency	p. 120
Oxygen	p. 123
Home oxygen therapy	p. 124
Diffuse parenchymal lung disease	p. 127
Usual interstitial pneumonia	p. 128
Non-specific interstitial pneumonia	p. 132
Respiratory bronchiolitis-associated interstitial lung disease	p. 136
Desquamative interstitial pneumonia	p. 138
Acute interstitial pneumonia	p. 140
Lymphoid interstitial pneumonia	p. 142
Cryptogenic organising pneumonia	p. 144
Extrinsic allergic alveolitis	p. 148
Sarcoidosis	p. 152
Pulmonary manifestations of connective tissue disorders	p. 156
Pulmonary manifestations of systemic diseases	p. 160
Infection	p. 165
Community-acquired pneumonia	p. 166
Hospital-acquired pneumonia	p. 172
Aspiration syndromes	p. 176
Lung abscess	p. 180
Nocardia and actinomycosis	p. 182
Viral infections of the respiratory tract	p. 184
Respiratory tuberculosis	p. 188
Non-respiratory tuberculosis	p. 192
Opportunist (non-tuberculous) mycobacteria	p. 194
Fungal and parasitic lung disease	p. 196
The immunocompromised host	p. 201
Pneumonia in the non-HIV immunocompromised patient	p. 202
Infection in the HIV compromised host	p. 210
Non-infectious HIV-related lung disease	p. 218
Bronchiectasis	p. 223
Bronchiectasis (aetiology)	p. 224
Chronic disease management	p. 228
Cystic fibrosis	p. 231
Cystic fibrosis diagnosis	p. 232
Managing acute infective exacerbations	p. 236
Chronic disease management	p. 242
Cystic fibrosis genetics	p. 245
Extra-pulmonary manifestations of cystic fibrosis	p. 252
Pulmonary vascular problems/issues	p. 259
Pulmonary embolism	p. 260
Pulmonary hypertension	p. 264
Pulmonary vasculitis and haemorrhage	p. 272
Lung cancer	p. 281
Epidemiology of lung cancer	p. 282
Symptoms and signs (including SVCO)	p. 284
Work-up of patients with a suspected diagnosis of lung cancer	p. 288
Treatment of non-small cell lung cancer	p. 292
Treatment of small cell lung cancer	p. 298
PET-CT	p. 300
Lung cancer screening	p. 304
Carcinoid	p. 306
Benign lung tumours	p. 310
Transbronchial fine needle aspiration	p. 316
Interventional bronchoscopy techniques	p. 318
Pleural disease	p. 321
Normal physiologic fluid volume and cellular contents	p. 322
Assessment and investigation of an undiagnosed pleural effusion (including thoracoscopy)	p. 326
Pneumothorax	p. 332
Exudative pleural effusions (excluding malignancy)	p. 338
Transudative pleural effusions	p. 340
Malignant effusions	p. 342
Malignant mesothelioma	p. 346
Pleural effusions in systemic disease	p. 350
Pleural infection	p. 352
Surgery for pleural diseases	p. 356
Sleep	p. 359
Obstructive sleep apnoea	p. 360
Driving	p. 368
The overlap syndrome	p. 370
Non-invasive ventilatory support in the acute setting	p. 372
Nocturnal hypoventilation	p. 374
Cheyne-Stokes respiration associated with left ventricular failure	p. 378
Other causes of sleepiness	p. 380
Occupation and environment	p. 383
Drugs and toxins	p. 384
Pneumoconiosis	p. 390
Disability assessment	p. 394
Occupational asthma	p. 398
The effects of high altitude on the lung	p. 404
Diving	p. 408
Occupational chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	p. 412
Asbestos-related diseases (excluding mesothelioma)	p. 414
Lung transplantation/ITU	p. 417
Lung transplantation: considerations for referral and listing	p. 418
Complications after lung transplantation	p. 422
The care of lung transplant candidate or recipient	p. 426
Acute respiratory distress syndrome	p. 430
Severe acute respiratory syndrome	p. 432
The ventilated patient	p. 434
Orphan lung diseases/BOLD	p. 441
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis	p. 442
Churg-Strauss syndrome	p. 446
Ciliary dyskinesia	p. 448
Pulmonary Langerhans' cell histiocytosis	p. 450
Lymphangioleiomyomatosis	p. 452
Primary tracheal tumours	p. 454
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations	p. 456
Pulmonary amyloidosis	p. 458
Index	p. 461
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