Oxford American handbook of pulmonary medicine [[electronic resource] /] / Kevin Brown, Teofilo Lee-Chiong

• Autore: Brown Kevin K. <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (899 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.2
• Soggetto topico: Respiratory organs - Diseases; Respiratory infections
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: Lee-ChiongTeofilo L. <1960->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Part I: Clinical presentations: approaches to problems""; ""1 Dyspnea""; ""Clinical assessment and causes""; ""Specific situations""; ""2 Chronic cough and normal chest X-ray""; ""Etiology, clinical assessment, and treatment""; ""Causes of chronic cough: UACS""; ""Causes of chronic cough: asthma, NAEB""; ""Causes of chronic cough: GERD""; ""Causes of chronic cough: chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis, ACE inhibitors""; ""Causes of chronic cough: miscellaneous""; ""Further information""; ""3 Chest pain""; ""Chest pain: overview""; ""Acute chest pain""; ""Chronic chest pain"" ; ""4 Hemoptysis""""Clinical assessment and causes""; ""Investigations""; ""Management of massive hemoptysis""; ""5 Unexplained respiratory failure""; ""Causes""; ""Clinical assessment and management""; ""6 Pleural effusion""; ""Clinical assessment""; ""Diagnostic algorithm for the patient with a pleural effusion""; ""Transudative pleural effusions""; ""Exudative pleural effusions""; ""Pleural fluid analysis 1""; ""Pleural fluid analysis 2""; ""7 Diffuse parenchymal lung disease""; ""Causes""; ""Clinical assessment and imaging""; ""HRCT diagnosis""; ""Further investigations"" ; ""8 Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage""""9 Pulmonary infiltrates in the immunocompromised host (non- HIV)""; ""Clinical assessment""; ""Further investigations""; ""Causes""; ""Treatment""; ""10 Pulmonary infiltrates in the immunocompromised host (HIV)""; ""Introduction""; ""Causes of respiratory disease in HIV infection""; ""11 The respiratory sleep patient""; ""History""; ""Examination and investigations""; ""12 The breathless, pregnant patient""; ""Causes""; ""Investigations""; ""13 Preoperative assessment of the pulmonary patient""; ""14 Postoperative breathlessness"" ; ""Part II: Clinical conditions""""15 Asthma""; ""Definition, epidemiology, pathophysiology, etiology""; ""Diagnosis""; ""Investigations""; ""Asthma exacerbations""; ""Acute severe or life-threatening asthma""; ""Treatment of acute asthma""; ""Chronic asthma: management""; ""Nonpharmacological therapies""; """"Difficult/refractory"" asthma""; ""Asthma in pregnancy""; ""Occupational asthma""; ""Management of occupational asthma""; ""Vocal cord dysfunction""; ""Allergic rhinitis (hay fever)""; ""16 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)"" ; ""Definition, etiology, pathology, and clinical features""""Investigations""; ""Nonpharmacological management of stable COPD""; ""Pharmacological management of stable COPD""; ""Management of exacerbations""; ""Summary of approaches to medical treatment""; ""Surgical treatment""; ""17 Lung cancer""; ""Epidemiology and types""; ""Clinical features""; ""Investigations""; ""Diagnostic procedures""; ""Staging""; ""Non-small cell lung cancer ( NSCLC): surgery""; ""NSCLC: chemotherapy""; ""NSCLC: radiotherapy""; ""Small cell lung cancer: treatment"" ; ""Superior vena caval obstruction (SVCO): etiology and clinical assessment""
• Titolo autorizzato: Oxford American handbook of pulmonary medicine
• ISBN: 1-282-54399-7; 9786612543999; 0-19-971624-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456884803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford American handbooks.