Updated and expanded for its second edition, this two-colour atlas is a user-friendly pictorial and textual guide to the common conditions encountered in pulmonary and critical care medicine. It features illustrations that depict the major disease entities and diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. The atlas is divided into six sections - pulmonary obstructive diseases, neoplasms of the lung, infectious diseases, interstitial and alveolar inflammatory disorders, pulmonary vascular diseases, and critical care. New chapters in this edition cover sleep, lower respiratory tract infections, HIV and fungal infections, occupational medicine, and nutrition.
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Section I: Pulmonary Obstructive Disease ;Smoking ;Asthma ;Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ;Cystic Fibrosis ;Bronchiolitis Obliterans and Other Bronchiolar Airway Disorders ;Sleep ;; Section II: Neoplasms ;Lung Cancer ;Pulmonary Neoplasms Other than Lung Cancer ;Solitary Pulmonary Nodule ;Pleural and Chest Wall Tumors ;Mediastinal Masses ;Metastases to the Lung ;; Section III: Infectious Diseases ;Lower Respiratory Tract Infections: Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Bronchitis ;Nosocomial Infections ;Tuberculosis ;HIV/AIDS and Fungal Infection ;; Section IV: Interstitial and Alveolar Inflammatory Disorders ;Sarcoidosis ;Interstitial Lung Diseases ;Connective Tissue Disease ;Necrotizing Vasculitis ;; Section V: Pulmonary Vascular Diseases ;Venous Thromboembolism ;Primary Pulmonary Hypertension ;; Section VI: Critical Care ;The High Risk Surgical Patient ;Acute Respiratory Failure ;Management of Oxygen Delivery in the Critically Ill Patient ;Nutrition ;;Index;
