Sixth Edition
by Richard A. Bordow
Manual of Clinical Problems in Pulmonary Medicine provides rapid access to the information you need to make sound diagnostic and treatment decisions.
Features:
- Clinically essential information covers the vital steps in assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for a range of pulmonary problems.
- Practical guidance describes current, proven strategies applicable to the challenges of daily practice.
- Easy-to-scan outline format helps you locate essential information quickly.
- Time-saving tables deliver quick reviews of needed facts.
Contents
Pulmonary Diagnostic Techniques
- Radiographic Evaluation of Lung Disease
- Advanced Imaging and Image-Guided Intervention in Chest Radiology
- Pulmonary Function Testing
- Exercise
- Radioisotopic Techniques
- Evaluation of Arterial Blood Gases and Acid-Based Homeostasis
- Bronchoscopic Procedures
- Lung Biopsy and Thoracoscopy
- Mediastinal Exploration
- Preoperative Pulmonary Evaluation
- Right Heart Catheterization and Monitoring of Arterial Pressure
Special Problems
- Pleural Effusion
- Pneumothorax
- Hemoptysis
- Aspiration Pneumonia
- Middle Lobe Syndrome
- Complications After Pulmonary Resection
- Key Pulmonary Symptoms: Cough and Dyspnea
- The Lung in Pregnancy
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
- Lung in Immunocompromised Host
- The Lung in Drug Abuse
- Tobacco Control
- Terrorism: Disaster Medicine from the Pulmonologist's Perspective
Pulmonary Infection
- Pneumonia: General Considerations
- Pneumococcal Pneumonia
- Staphylococcal and Streptococcal Pneumonias
- Haemophilus Influenzae Infections
- Klebsiella Pneumonia
- Other Gram-Negative Pneumonias: Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Escherichia Coli, Proteus, Serratia, Enterobacter, Acinetobacter
- Anaerobic Pulmonary Infections
- Empyema
- Atypical Pneumonias: Mycoplasma, Chlamydophila (Chlamydia), Q Fever, and Legionella
- Viral Pneumonia
- Tuberculosis: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Latent Infection
- Tuberculosis: Treatment of Disease
- Mycobacterial Infection Due to Mycobacteria Other Than Tuberculosis
- Coccidioidomycosis
- Histoplasmosis
- Blastomycosis
- Aspergillus Lung Disease
- Nocardiosis
- Cryptococcosis and Actinomycosis
- Nematode and Trematode Diseases of the Lung
- Amebiasis and Echinococcal Diseases of the Lung
- Pulmonary Infections and Complications in HIV Infected Patients
- Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
Airways Disease
- Asthma: Clinical Presentation and Diagnosis
- Asthma: Management
- Pharmacotherapy
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Definition and Epidemiology
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Clinical and Laboratory Manifestations, Pathophysiology, and Prognosis
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Management
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- Bronchiectasis
Acute Respiratory Failure
- Acute Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure
- The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Airway Management
- Mechanical Ventilation: Devices and Methods
- Mechanical Ventilation: Complications and Discontinuation
- Oxygen Therapy and Toxicity
- Protocol-Driven Care in Respiratory Therapy
Cardiovascular and Thromboembolic Disease
- Thromboembolic Disease: Epidemiology, Natural History, and Diagnosis
- Thromboembolic Disease: Prophylaxis
- Thromboembolic Disease: Therapy
- Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension
- Unusual Forms of Embolism
- Pulmonary Hypertension: Pathogenesis and Etiology
- Pulmonary Hypertension: Diagnosis and Treatment
- Heart-Lung and Lung Transplantation
Congenital and Pediatric Lung Disease
- Pulmonary Manifestations of Sickle Cell Disease
- Cystic Fibrosis
Chest Wall and Neuromuscular Disorders
- Disorders of the Thoracic Spine
- Diaphragmatic Disorders
- Neuromuscular Diseases and Spinal Cord Injury
- Sleep Apnea, Alveolar Hypoventilation, and Obesity Hypoventilation
Environmental and Occupational Diseases
- Approaches to Occupational-Environmental Lung Disease
- Silicosis
- Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis
- Asbestos-Related Disease
- Occupational Asthma
- Disability and Medicolegal Evaluation
- Pulmonary Complications in Burn Patients
- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
- Near-Drowning and Diving Accidents
- Air Travel and High-Altitude Medicine
- Radiation-Induced Lung Disease
- Drug-Induced Lung Disease
Idiopathic, Immunologic, and Granulomatous Diseases
- Sarcoidosis
- Wegener's Granulomatosis
- Goodpasture's Syndrome
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Hemosiderosis
- Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia
- Pulmonary Manifestations of Rheumatoid Arthritis
- The Lungs in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Progressive, Systemic Sclerosis and Its Variants, Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis, and Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
- Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis
- Neurofibromatosis, Lymphangiomyomatosis, and Tuberous Sclerosis
- Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Neoplastic Diseases
- Bronchial Carcinoids and Benign Neoplasms of the Lung
- Lung Cancer: Classification, Pathology, and Epidemiology
- Lung Cancer: Clinical Presentation, Diagnosis, Staging, and Prognosis
- Lung Cancer Screening
- Lung Cancer: Treatment
- Extrathoracic and Endocrine Manifestations of Lung Cancer
- Solitary Pulmonary Nodule
- Mediastinal Mass
- Neoplastic Disease of the Pleura
Index
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