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Fast Facts: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is an invaluable resource for all healthcare professionals, full of practical information on the early recognition, stabilization and successful management of this multifaceted disease.

Lungs --- Diseases, Obstructive. --- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease --- COPD (Disease) --- Lung diseases, Obstructive --- Obstructive lung diseases --- Respiratory organs --- Diseases --- Obstructions

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A decade or so ago, many clinicians were described as having an unnecessarily 'nihilistic' view of COPD. This has certainly changed over the years... This open access book on COPD provides a platform for scientists and clinicians from around the world to present their knowledge of the disease and up-to-date scientific findings, and avails the reader to a multitude of topics: from recent discoveries in the basic sciences to state-of-the-art interventions on COPD. Management of patients with COPD challenges the whole gamut of Respiratory Medicine - necessarily pushing frontiers in pulmonary function (and exercise) testing, radiologic imaging, pharmaceuticals, chest physiotherapy, intensive care with respiratory therapy, bronchology and thoracic surgery. In addition, multi-disciplinary inputs from other specialty fields such as cardiology, neuro-psychiatry, geriatric medicine and palliative care are often necessary for the comprehensive management of COPD. The recent progress and a multi-disciplinary approach in dealing with COPD certainly bode well for the future. Nonetheless, the final goal and ultimate outcome is in improving the health status and survival of patients with COPD.

Dermatology. --- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. --- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease --- COPD (Disease) --- Lung diseases, Obstructive --- Obstructive lung diseases --- Lungs --- Respiratory organs --- Medicine --- Skin --- Diseases --- Obstructions --- Respiratory medicine --- Diseases, Obstructive.

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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is growing in recognition as a major chronic disease and a key cause of acute medical admissions. It kills approximately 30,000 patients each year in England and Wales alone, and is set to be the third commonest cause of death by 2020 globally.This pocketbook is a concise companion for all health care professionals who come into contact with patients with COPD. It covers the full spectrum of COPD management ranging from smoking cessation to advanced COPD, bridging both the primary and secondary care aspects of treatment and discussing the latest adv

Lungs --- Respiratory organs --- Airway obstructions (Medicine) --- Obstructions, Respiratory --- Respiratory obstructions --- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease --- COPD (Disease) --- Lung diseases, Obstructive --- Obstructive lung diseases --- Diseases, Obstructive. --- Obstructions. --- Diseases --- Obstructions

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which encompasses both chronic bronchitis and emphysema, is one of the most common respiratory conditions of adults in the developed world. Asthma and COPD: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Management provides a unique, authoritative comparison of asthma and COPD. Written and edited by the world's leading experts, it is a comprehensive review of the most recent understanding of the basic mechanisms of both conditions, specifically comparing their etiology, pathogenesis, and treatments.* Highlights distinguishing features between asthma

Asthma. --- Lungs --- Diseases, Obstructive. --- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease --- COPD (Disease) --- Lung diseases, Obstructive --- Obstructive lung diseases --- Respiratory organs --- Bronchial asthma --- Bronchi --- Respiratory allergy --- Diseases --- Obstructions --- Diseases, Obstructive

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This book considers chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) not as a simple inflammation of the lung but as a systemic inflammatory disease. Beginning with epidemiological studies, etiology, diagnosis and treatment, it elaborates further, illustrating some comorbidities and associations with other respiratory diseases. As such it provides numerous improved and more comprehensive treatment methods, including drug therapies as well as some non-drug therapies. There are also chapters describing the pathogenesis, genetic abnormalities and newly discovered pathogenetic mechanisms that are expected to be studied further in the future. Edited and written by pioneering researchers, each chapter summarizes the latest trends, describes future prospects and explores the unresolved and critical questions. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - A Systemic Inflammatory Disease is a valuable resource to beginning researchers, physicians engaged in clinical practice, supervisors, and basic researchers whose work includes COPD.

Pneumology/Respiratory System. --- Diseases, Obstructive. --- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease --- COPD (Disease) --- Lung diseases, Obstructive --- Obstructive lung diseases --- Medicine. --- Respiratory organs --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Diseases. --- Lungs --- Diseases --- Obstructions --- Pneumology. --- Respiratory organs—Diseases.