This issue of Medical Clinics of North America provides the latest essential updates on COPD. The following topics are covered: pathobiological mechanisms; genes and the disease (alpha-l-antitrypsin); the environment, phenotype, and comorbidity; the role and potential of imaging; pulmonary function and its importance; exercise in testing and therapy; patients’ perception and quality of life; exacerbations, causes, prevention, and treatment; an integrated approach to the medical treatment; meducal pneumoplasty, surgical resection, or lung transplant; and smoking cessation and environmental hygiene.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Forthcoming Issues - p. 4 5. CME Accreditation Page and Author Disclosure - p. 5 6. Contributors - p. 6 7. Preface - p. 7 8. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - p. 8 9. Pathobiologic Mechanisms of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - p. 14 10. Genes and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - p. 25 11. Contribution of the Environment and Comorbidities to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Phenotypes - p. 33 12. The Role and Potential of Imaging in COPD - p. 42 13. The Importance of the Assessment of Pulmonary Function in COPD - p. 51 14. Role of Exercise in Testing and in Therapy of COPD - p. 55 15. Defining Patient-Reported Outcomes in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - p. 62 16. COPD Exacerbations - p. 73 17. An Integrated Approach to the Medical Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - p. 85 18. Medical Pneumoplasty, Surgical Resection, or Lung Transplant - p. 95 19. Smoking Cessation and Environmental Hygiene - p. 106 20. Index - p. 117
This issue of Medical Clinics of North America provides the latest essential updates on COPD. The following topics are covered: pathobiological mechanisms; genes and the disease (alpha-l-antitrypsin); the environment, phenotype, and comorbidity; the role and potential of imaging; pulmonary function and its importance; exercise in testing and therapy; patients’ perception and quality of life; exacerbations, causes, prevention, and treatment; an integrated approach to the medical treatment; meducal pneumoplasty, surgical resection, or lung transplant; and smoking cessation and environmental hygiene.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Forthcoming Issues - p. 4 5. CME Accreditation Page and Author Disclosure - p. 5 6. Contributors - p. 6 7. Preface - p. 7 8. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - p. 8 9. Pathobiologic Mechanisms of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - p. 14 10. Genes and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - p. 25 11. Contribution of the Environment and Comorbidities to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Phenotypes - p. 33 12. The Role and Potential of Imaging in COPD - p. 42 13. The Importance of the Assessment of Pulmonary Function in COPD - p. 51 14. Role of Exercise in Testing and in Therapy of COPD - p. 55 15. Defining Patient-Reported Outcomes in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - p. 62 16. COPD Exacerbations - p. 73 17. An Integrated Approach to the Medical Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - p. 85 18. Medical Pneumoplasty, Surgical Resection, or Lung Transplant - p. 95 19. Smoking Cessation and Environmental Hygiene - p. 106 20. Index - p. 117
