Respiratory medicine

This book provides state of the art information on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of a range of inflammatory, autoimmune, and idiopathic neuromuscular disorders.

This book is both an exam guide to children's sleep medicine and a practical manual for diagnosis and management of sleep disorders in children.

This book provides a comprehensive framework for treatment and management of bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

This evidence-based guide on the use of radiotherapy in patients with common malignancies of the lung, esophagus, and thymus will help radiation oncologists to deliver optimal care within a multidisciplinary setting.

This book systematically focuses on central sleep apneas, analyzing their relationship especially with heart failure and discussing recent research results and emerging treatment strategies based on feedback modulation.

The book addresses functional changes associated with or resulting from pulmonary diseases.

This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of the interventional procedures that can be performed in intensive care settings.

This book presents a range of research and clinical contributions, including observational studies, practical treatment examples, diagnostic test assessment, biomarkers, and systematic reviews.

This book discusses normal sex-related differences in lung structure and function and the role these differences play in lung disease.

This book discusses health disparities in respiratory medicine and suggests methods to reduce them.

This book provides the framework for a singular reference in the field of pulmonary hypertension.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, an inherited condition that leads to lung disease in adults and liver disease in adults and children and is associated with chronic obstructive lung disease in adults.

This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview on percutaneous tracheostomy (PT) in critically ill patients.

This concise, clinically focused handbook offers a complete overview of bacterial pneumonia and reviews the latest guidelines, treatment options, clinical trials, and management of this disease.

The new edition presents updates regarding new clinical applications of noninvasive mechanical ventilation and discusses recent technical advances in this field.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the current understanding of the organization of endogenous lung stem and progenitor cell compartments during fetal lung development, postnatal lung growth and in adulthood.

The present work focuses on the diagnosis of TB, covering all its possible ways.

This book explores the unique aspects involved in the management of ECMO patients such as physiopathology and indications, setting up the device, monitoring ECMO and the patient, troubleshooting, ethical aspects and rehabilitation.

Diseases of the respiratory system often cause multisystem dysfunction and morbidity.

This volume presents the most recent developments in diagnosis and treatment of patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and those who continue to be refractory to conventional GERD therapies.

The tracheobronchial tree is open to the environment surrounding the body.

The book discusses new concepts and findings in the field of pulmonary function.

Up-to-date and multidisciplinary, this text brings together all of the latest research and clinical treatment strategies for the management of injuries to the chest wall and rib cage.

This comprehensive volume on the blood-gas barrier (BGB) among vertebrates covers its structure and composition along with aspects of evolution, bioengineering, and morphometry.

This book describes the techniques, strategies, and drugs that have been demonstrated by multicenter randomized trials to influence survival in critically ill patients, defined as those who have acute failure of at least one organ, due to either a pathological condition or a medical intervention, and require intensive care treatment.

The book blends basic and clinical research on respiratory carcinogensis.

Nutritional therapies have been key early interventions, and remain central to the well-being and survival of patients with cystic fibrosis.

This book covers the identification and role of endogenous lung stem cells in health and disease, particularly the most recent advances.

Written by a pioneer in critical care ultrasound, this book discusses the basic technique and "e;signatures"e; of lung ultrasound and explains its main clinical applications.

This book comprehensively describes alkaptonuria and ochronosis.

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The dynamics of body metabolism are changed in the disease process and interact with physical activity.

The successful prophylaxis and treatment of ubiquitous respiratory infections is essential for the enhancement of public health.

The mechanistic basis of chronic inflammation remains unclear.

Respiratory allergy is constantly encountered and is sharply on the rise, particularly in the two most vulnerable age-groups: young children and seniors.

The impairment of lung function caused by environmental exposure to pollutants and toxicants is a rising health problem, particularly in highly industrialized parts of the world.

Lung cancer and autoimmune diseases are complex entities in that they involve gene disturbance, gene polymorphism, and impaired gene repair mechanisms.

Cardiorespiratory function is prominently affected by oxidative stress.

This book establishes the indications for the use of NIV in the context of weaning from invasive mechanical ventilation.

Guide to Targeted Therapies: EGFR Mutations in NSCLC is a speedy and up-to-date review, which discusses EGFR mutations, testing methods and technology, current and emerging therapies, and resources that clinicians can provide to their patients.

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During the past decades, "e;Dynamics of the singing voice"e; has successfully been established as a reference text for teachers of singing, singers, choral conductors and organists, speech and voice therapists, laryngologists and other health professionals, psychologists and those in linguistics.

This book, based on a recent German publication, offers an overview of basic data and recent developments in the groundbreaking field of molecular allergology.

This book provides up-to-date knowledge on all aspects of the multidisciplinary approach to pulmonary rehabilitation that is essential in order to achieve optimal results.

This book describes in detail the specific aspects of ECG during childhood and adolescence, pursuing an accessible, didactic and easy-to-read approach.

This volume is dedicated to multidisciplinary research at the interface between basic biomedicine and clinical practice.

This book provides an overview of key issues with regards to implementing telemedicine services as well as an in depth overview of telemedicine in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine.

This book covers relevant concepts in nuclear cardiology, combining imaging techniques and clinical data to do so.

Collaboratively authored by international experts and innovators, this book serves as a comprehensive introduction to flexible bronchoscopy in children, a guide to normal and abnormal bronchoscopy findings, and as the first pediatric bronchoscopy text to describe the array of innovative technologies now being utilized in advanced diagnostic and interventional bronchoscopy programs.