Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease A Systemic Inflammatory Disease /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Nakamura, Hiroyuki (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Aoshiba, Kazutetsu (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Σειρά: Respiratory Disease Series: Diagnostic Tools and Disease Managements,
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; Medicine & Public Health.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.

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 ot...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I　Definition and Epidemiology
• 1.Definition of COPD
• 2.Epidemiology of COPD
• Part II　Genetic Predisposition and Pathogenic Mechanisms
• 3.Genetic predisposition to COPD
• 4.Pathogenesis of COPD—Persistence of airway inflammation
• 5.Pathogenesis of COPD 3- Oxidative stress
• 6.Pathogenesis of COPD 4
• Part III　Comorbidities
• 7.Pathogenesis of comorbidities in COPD
• 8.Assessment of inflammation in COPD
• Part IV　Management and Treatment
• 9.Exercise therapy for COPD
• 10.Nutritional therapy for COPD
• 11.Home oxygen therapy for COPD
• 12.Bronchodilators for COPD
• 13.Inhaled corticosteroids for COPD
• 14.New anti-inflammatory drugs for COPD
• 15.Exacerbation of COPD
• Part V　Associations with other Respiratory Diseases
• 16.Asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS)
• 17.Combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema (CPFE)
• 18.Association of COPD and lung cancer.