This issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, Guest Edited by Carrie A. Redlich, MD, MPH, Paul Blanc, MD, MSPH, Mridu Gulati, MD, and Ware Kuschner, MD, will focus on Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases, with article topics including: asthma, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, and other immune-mediated lung disease; Work-exacerbated asthma; Occupational COPD; Indoor fuel exposure and the lung in both the developed and developing worlds; New (and newly recognized) occupational and environmental causes of selected chronic parenchymal and terminal airway diseases; Occupational rhinitis and other work-related upper respiratory tract conditions; Military service and lung disease; Ambient air pollution; Protecting the lungs from microbes, particles and other inhalational exposures; and Exhaled breath and induce sputum analysis in assessing the effects of occupational and environmental exposures.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Contributors - p. 4 5. Forthcoming Issues - p. 5 6. Preface - p. 6 7. New Occupational and Environmental Causes of Asthma and Extrinsic Allergic Alveolitis - p. 7 8. Work-Exacerbated Asthma - p. 18 9. Occupational Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - p. 23 10. Occupational Rhinitis and Other Work-Related Upper Respiratory Tract Conditions - p. 31 11. Indoor Fuel Exposure and the Lung in Both Developing and Developed Countries - p. 39 12. Newly Recognized Occupational and Environmental Causes of Chronic Terminal Airways and Parenchymal Lung Disease - p. 48 13. Occupational and Environmental Causes of Lung Cancer - p. 59 14. Military Service and Lung Disease - p. 72 15. Respiratory Health in Home and Leisure Pursuits - p. 80 16. Implications of OSA on Work and Work Disability Including Drivers - p. 92 17. The Classic Pneumoconioses - p. 103 18. Respiratory Health Effects of Ambient Air Pollution - p. 115 19. Induced Sputum, Exhaled Nitric Oxide, and Particles in Exhaled Air in Assessing Airways Inflammation in Occupational Exposures - p. 125 20. Respiratory Protection - p. 135 21. Index - p. 143
This issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, Guest Edited by Carrie A. Redlich, MD, MPH, Paul Blanc, MD, MSPH, Mridu Gulati, MD, and Ware Kuschner, MD, will focus on Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases, with article topics including: asthma, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, and other immune-mediated lung disease; Work-exacerbated asthma; Occupational COPD; Indoor fuel exposure and the lung in both the developed and developing worlds; New (and newly recognized) occupational and environmental causes of selected chronic parenchymal and terminal airway diseases; Occupational rhinitis and other work-related upper respiratory tract conditions; Military service and lung disease; Ambient air pollution; Protecting the lungs from microbes, particles and other inhalational exposures; and Exhaled breath and induce sputum analysis in assessing the effects of occupational and environmental exposures.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Contributors - p. 4 5. Forthcoming Issues - p. 5 6. Preface - p. 6 7. New Occupational and Environmental Causes of Asthma and Extrinsic Allergic Alveolitis - p. 7 8. Work-Exacerbated Asthma - p. 18 9. Occupational Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - p. 23 10. Occupational Rhinitis and Other Work-Related Upper Respiratory Tract Conditions - p. 31 11. Indoor Fuel Exposure and the Lung in Both Developing and Developed Countries - p. 39 12. Newly Recognized Occupational and Environmental Causes of Chronic Terminal Airways and Parenchymal Lung Disease - p. 48 13. Occupational and Environmental Causes of Lung Cancer - p. 59 14. Military Service and Lung Disease - p. 72 15. Respiratory Health in Home and Leisure Pursuits - p. 80 16. Implications of OSA on Work and Work Disability Including Drivers - p. 92 17. The Classic Pneumoconioses - p. 103 18. Respiratory Health Effects of Ambient Air Pollution - p. 115 19. Induced Sputum, Exhaled Nitric Oxide, and Particles in Exhaled Air in Assessing Airways Inflammation in Occupational Exposures - p. 125 20. Respiratory Protection - p. 135 21. Index - p. 143
