Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Overview: 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; medical pneumoplasty, surgical resection, or lung transplant; and smoking cessation and environmental hygiene. --

שנה

2012

שפה

English

סדרה

Medical clinics of North America -- v. 96, no. 4

הוצאה

Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc.

מהדורות

1

עמודים

880

ISBN

9781455738908

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