Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication Page.
Contributing Authors.
Preface.
Contents.
1: Pulmonary Resources and Procedures.
2: Radiographic Evaluation of Lung Disease.
3: Radioisotopic Techniques.
4: Pulmonary Function Testing.
5: Exercise.
6: Evaluation of Arterial Blood Gases and Acid–Base Homeostasis.
7: Thoracic Ultrasound Uses in Pulmonary Medicine.
8: Interventional Pulmonology: Advanced Diagnostic Procedures.
9: Preoperative Pulmonary Evaluation.
10: Pharmacotherapy.
11: Pulmonary Rehabilitation.
12: Interventional Pulmonology Therapeutic Procedures.
13: Pulmonary Therapeutics.
14: Tobacco Control.
15: Disaster Management by the Pulmonologist.
16: Mechanical Ventilation: Devices and Methods.
17: Mechanical Ventilation: Complications and Discontinuation.
18: Protocol-Driven Care in Respiratory Therapy.
19: Techniques for Clinical Quality Improvement and Error Reduction Techniques.
20: Disability and Medicolegal Evaluation.
21: Air Travel and High-Altitude Medicine.
22: Presentations of Respiratory Disorders.
23: Dyspnea.
24: Approach to Pulmonary Vascular Disease.
25: Chronic Cough.
26: Pleural Effusion.
27: Hemoptysis.
28: Complications of Pulmonary Resections.
29: Pneumothorax.
30: Aspiration.
31: The Lung in Pregnancy.
32: Lung Disease in the Immunocompromised Patient.
33: The Lung in Drug Abuse.
34: Pneumonia: General Considerations.
35: Airway Obstruction.
36: Acute Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure.
37: Bronchiectasis.
38: The Difficult Airway.
39: Occupational-Environmental Lung Disease.
40: Solitary Pulmonary Nodule.
41: Mediastinal Masses.
42: Eosinophilic Lung Disease.
43: Diseases.
44: Pneumococcal Pneumonia.
45: Staphylococcal and Streptococcal Pneumonias.
46: Haemophilus Influenzae Infections.
47: Klebsiella Pneumonia.
48: Other Gram-Negative Pneumonias: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Proteus, Serratia, Enterobacter, and Acinetobacter.
49: Anaerobic Lung Infections.
50: Atypical Pneumonias: Mycoplasma, Chlamydophila (Chlamydia), Q Fever, and Legionella.
51: Viral Pneumonia.
52: Tuberculosis: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Latent Infection.
53: Tuberculosis: Clinical Manifestations and Diagnosis of Disease.
54: Tuberculosis: Treatment of Disease.
55: Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Infections.
56: Coccidioidomycosis.
57: Histoplasmosis.
58: Blastomycosis.
59: Aspergillus Lung Disease.
60: Nocardiosis and Actinomycosis.
61: Cryptococcosis.
62: Nematode and Trematode Diseases of the Lung.
63: Amebiasis and Echinococcal Diseases of the Lung.
64: Pulmonary Infections and Complications in HIV-Infected Patients.
65: Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia.
66: Asthma.
67: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Definition and Epidemiology.
68: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Clinical and Laboratory Manifestations, Pathophysiology, and Prognosis.
69: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Management.
70: The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
71: Thromboembolic Disease: Epidemiology, Natural History, and Diagnosis.
72: Thromboembolic Disease: Prophylaxis.
73: Thromboembolic Disease: Therapy.
74: Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension.
75: Unusual Forms of Embolism.
76: Pulmonary Hypertension: Pathogenesis and Etiology.
77: Pulmonary Hypertension: Diagnosis and Treatment.
78: Lung Transplantation.
79: Pulmonary Manifestations of Sickle Cell Disease.
80: Cystic Fibrosis.
81: Disorders of the Thoracic Spine.
82: Disorders of the Diaphragm.
83: Neuromuscular Diseases and Spinal Cord Injury.
84: Sleep Apnea, Alveolar Hypoventilation, and Obesity-Hypoventilation.
85: Silicosis.
86: Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis.
87: Asbestos-Related Disease.
88: Work-Related Asthma.
89: Pulmonary Injury in Burn Patients.
90: Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis.
91: Drowning and Diving Accidents.
92: Radiation-Induced Lung Disease.
93: Sarcoidosis.
94: Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (Wegener Granulomatosis).
95: Goodpasture Syndrome.
96: Idiopathic Pulmonary Hemosiderosis.
97: Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias.
98: Pulmonary Manifestations of Rheumatoid Arthritis.
99: The Lungs in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic Sclerosis, Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis, and Mixed Connective Tissue Disease.
100: Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis.
101: Neurofibromatosis, Lymphangioleiomyomatosis, and Tuberous Sclerosis.
102: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis.
103: Bronchial Carcinoids and Benign Neoplasms of the Lung.
104: Lung Cancer: Diagnosis, Staging, and Prognosis.
105: Lung Cancer: Classification, Epidemiology, and Screening.
106: Lung Cancer: Treatment.
107: Extrathoracic and Endocrine Manifestations of Lung Cancer.
108: Neoplastic Disease of the Pleura.
Index.
