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Oxford American handbook of pulmonary medicine /
The Oxford American Handbook of Pulmonary Medicine is an essential quick reference guide to all the major respiratory symptoms and diseases. Each topic is covered in a consistent format including practical tips for both inpatient and outpatient care settings. The handbook features a section on pract...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Oxford American handbooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 HemoptysisClinical 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 hemorrhage9 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 conditions15 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 featuresInvestigations
- 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