Frontiers of Architecture and Civil Engineering in China

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910145604203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Beijing, : Higher Education Press, co-published with Springer-Verlag GmbH
• ISSN: 1673-7512
• Soggetti: Engineering - Architecture
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico
• Note generali: Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Baum's textbook of pulmonary diseases / / editors James D. Crapo [and three others] ; Karen Quigley, cover designer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811990003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, , 2004; ©2004
• ISBN: 1-4698-7567-5
• Edizione: [Seventh edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1518 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.2/4
• Soggetti: Lungs - Diseases; Pleura - Diseases
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover ""; ""Copyright ""; ""DEDICATION""; ""EDITORS ""; ""PREFACE""; ""PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION""; ""FOREWORD""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Contents""; ""Section I Diagnostic Methods""; ""Chapter 1 Imaging of Lung Disease""; ""CHEST RADIOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES""; ""COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY TECHNIQUES""; ""NUCLEAR MEDICINE TECHNIQUES""; ""LUNG MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING""; ; ""ULTRASOUND""; ""INTERVENTIONAL THORACIC RADIOLOGY""; ""RADIOLOGIC ANATOMY""; ""APPROACH TO CHEST RADIOGRAPHS""; ""RADIOLOGIC SIGNS OF LUNG DISEASE""; ""ABNORMALITIES OF THE SECONDARY PULMONARY LOBULE""; ""SPECIFIC IMAGING ISSUES IN EVALUATION OF LUNG DISEASE""""SUMMARY""; ""Chapter 2 Pulmonary Function Testing""; ""STATIC LUNG VOLUMES""; ""DYNAMIC TESTS OF LUNG FUNCTION""; ""DIFFUSION""; ""RESPIRATORY MUSCLE STRENGTH""; ""TESTS OF ELASTIC PROPERTIES""; ""ARTERIAL BLOOD GASES""; ""REFERENCES VALUES""; ""GENERAL INTERPRETATIVE GUIDELINES""; ""SUMMARY""; ""Chapter 3 Clinical Exercise Testing""; ""CLINICAL EXERCISE TESTING""; ""MEASUREMENTS""; ""CLINICAL SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS""; ""BREATHING PATTERN AND STRATEGY""; ""EXERCISE LIMITATION""; ""INTERPRETATION""; ""SUMMARY/INTERPRETATION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""""Chapter 4 Bronchoscopy""; ""BRONCHOSCOPIC TECHNIQUES""; ""CANCER DIAGNOSIS""; ""DIFFUSE PARENCHYMAL LUNG DISEASE IN IMMUNOCOMPETENT PATIENTS""; ""INFECTIOUS DISEASES""; ""HEMOPTYSIS""; ""THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS""; ""Chapter 5 Invasive Pulmonary Diagnostic Procedures: Pleural Diagnostic Procedures""; ""THORACENTESIS""; ""PLEURAL BIOPSY AND ENDOSCOPY TECHNIQUES""; ""THORACOSCOPY (PLEUROSCOPY)""; ""OPEN (SURGICAL) PLEURAL BIOPSY""; ""Chapter 6 Preoperative Evaluation and Relation to Postoperative Complications""; ""MAJOR POSTOPERATIVE PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS""; ""OTHER RISK FACTORS""""PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION OF PATIENTS NOT UNDERGOING LUNG RESECTION""; ""PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING LUNG RESECTION""; ""REDUCTION IN COMPLICATIONS""; ""Section II Obstructive Lung Disease""; ""Chapter 7 Pulmonary Aerosols""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""AEROSOLS AND THE MECHANICS OF AIRFLOW AND PARTICLE DISTRIBUTION IN THE AIRWAYS""; ""AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICES""; ""Chapter 8 The Epidemiology of Asthma""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""NATURAL HISTORY""; ""PREVALENCE, INCIDENCE, MORBIDITY, AND MORTALITY: THE ASTHMA EPIDEMIC""; ""EMERGING RISK FACTORS TO EXPLAIN THE INCREASE IN ASTHMA""""DIET""; ""OBESITY""; ""HYGIENE HYPOTHESIS (INFECTION)""; ""STRESS""; ""SUMMARY""; ""Chapter 9 Pathophysiology of Asthma""; ""INFLAMMATION""; ""INFLAMMATORY CELLS""; ""INFLAMMATORY MEDIATORS""; ""EFFECTS OF INFLAMMATION""; ""TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS""; ""ANTIINFLAMMATORY MECHANISMS""; ""Chapter 10 Diagnosis and Treatment of Asthma""; ""MAKING THE DIAGNOSIS OF ASTHMA""; ""CLINICAL PHENOTYPES OF ASTHMA""; ""SPECIAL CLINICAL SITUATIONS IN ASTHMA""; ""EVALUATION AND TREATMENT OF COMORBID CONDITIONS""; ""INDIVIDUAL PHARMACOLOGIC AGENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF ASTHMA""