Respiratory medicine

This book discusses the latest molecular targeted therapy of lung cancer including its evaluation and future directions.

This book presents state of the art knowledge on severe asthma with the aim of providing readers with a clear understanding of, first, the heterogeneity of the condition and of patients' symptom profiles and responses to therapy and, second, the future implications of this heterogeneity for individualized patient care.

This book considers chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) not as a simple inflammation of the lung but as a systemic inflammatory disease.

Aerosol therapy has significantly improved the treatment of a variety of respiratory diseases.

This book is a festschrift to mark the career of ogy, immunology and clinical aspects of each Dr David Tyrrell, eminent virologist and group.

The topics chosen for discussion represent the most common problems referred by family doctors to chest clinics.

On 15 November 1997, the first international symposium "e;Neural and Chemical Control of Breathing: Pharmacological and Clinical Aspects"e; was held at Leiden University Medical Center on the occasion of the retirement of one of the members of the Control of Breathing Research Group of the Departments of Physiology and Anesthesiology, Dr.

Aims and approach In order to chart the way for long-tenn policies in the field of public health, the Dutch government needs to have the best possible insight into potential future trends and the problems to which these could give rise.

This title provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art summary of current and future immunosuppressive strategies in transplantation, with emphasis on the basic science mechanisms and clinical applicability of these strategies.

There is a wide variation in the clinical syndromes and in the severity of respiratory tract infections.

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A novel strain of influenza A (H1N1) virus emerged and an outbreak of influenza A (H1N1) occurred worldwide in 2009 and 2010, posing a severe threat to the health of human beings.

This book, an international collaborative effort in the area of molecular respiratory research, showcases a broad range of multidisciplinary approaches to unravel and analyze the underlying mechanisms of a spectrum of respiratory ailments.

This book, written for pulmonary and family doctors, general practitioners, allergologists, and neuropsychologists, presents cutting-edge clinical research and therapy-oriented knowledge in the field of respiratory medicine.

We proudly present the first book to integrate all aspects of purinergic signaling in the respiratory system.

This book, with its 16 chapters, documents the present state of knowledge of the adenosine A receptor.

Aspergillosis is an infection or allergic response caused by the fungus Aspergillus.

Veel gestelde vragen over COPD.

Paramedici hebben binnen de (sport)gezondheidszorg een belangrijke (begeleidende) functie bij het onderhouden en/of opbouwen van gezondheidsgerelateerde en algemene fitheid.

Longcarcinoom en andere thoracale tumoren in beeld

Het Astma Formularium is een praktische leidraad in zakformaat voor de huisarts waarin het diagnostisch en therapeutisch handelen m.

Het Pulmonaal Formularium geeft naast een korte beschrijving van de meest belangrijke ziektebeelden een zo volledig mogelijk overzicht te geven van de in de pulmonologie toegepaste medicatie.

Het is niet mogelijk om van astma te genezen, maar het is wel mogelijk om er zo min mogelijk last van te hebben, en de kwaliteit van leven te verbeteren.

In Leven met COPD komen de diverse aspecten van COPD aan de orde.

Van astma tot en met tuberculose: met dit Zakboek Ziektebeelden heb je altijd alle essentiële informatie over de meest voorkomende psychiatrische ziekten binnen handbereik.

This book offers a state-of-the-art description of the complexity of the healthy and pathological respiratory system, with particular reference to the mechanics of the airways, lung and chest wall.

Over the last two decades, the increasing use of noninvasive ventilation (NIV) has reduced the need for endotracheal ventilation, thus decreasing the rate of ventilation-induced complications.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has been in clinical use for some 40 years, but it is only in the past decade that its application in the treatment of life-threatening circulatory and respiratory failure has truly flourished.

This book proposes an introduction to the mathematical modeling of the respiratory system.

In the past few years, research into the mechanics of breathing has provided results which are opening new perspectives in understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of some of the most important respiratory diseases that affect humans.

Long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) usually represents the final step in the management of severe chronic respiratory diseases: a large proportion of patients suffering from these conditions is involved and the corresponding impact for the Health Institutions and the Society is dramatically increasing.

La crescita esponenziale dell'interesse per la ventilazione non invasiva (NIV) verificatasi negli ultimi 10-15 anni, non solo dal punto di vista clinico e applicativo, ma anche speculativo, ha pochi eguali nella recente storia della medicina.

Chlamydia pneumoniae is now recognized as an important human pathogen.

Management of the intensive care patient afflicted by respiratory insufficiency requires knowledge of the pathophysiological basis for altered functions.

Bronchial asthma is a multifactorial disease.

The invention of an instrument called the optical microscope and the new possibilities it offered to observe living material must be considered a major milestone in the advance of our understanding of the mechanisms of life.

Vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, has a long and multifaceted scientific history.

Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) refers to symptoms and events that result from abnormal regurgitation of gastric contents into the esophagus.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an increasingly important health problem world-wide.

A flood of data indicate the importance and the relevance in both respiratory and extrapulmonary disease of Chlamydia pneumoniae infection today.