Main description:

This is an impressive four-volume work that provides an authoritative and comprehensive coverage of the complete field of respiratory medicine. It provides a vital interface between the pure and clinical science environments covering all aspects of respiratory medicine from the relevant molecular biology to the treatment of diseases that affect the respiratory system. It includes comprehensive coverage of lung cells, the structural components of the lung and key molecules that regulate lung function as well as all the major respiratory diseases. Students, researchers and professionals alike will find this an authoritative source of information on all aspects of respiratory medicine. It is also available online via ScienceDirect (2006) featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. It includes diagrams of uniformly high quality and references to enable readers to access the wider literature. It is highly structured through the use of chapter templates.
It features key four-color illustrations that will be invaluable teaching tools.

Contents:

TOPICS INCLUDE: Anatomy and development of the respiratory tract Anesthesia and surgery Biologic processes and associated cells and molecules Defence mechanisms Diagnostic evaluation Disorders of the control of breathing Disorders of the pleura Disorders of pulmonary circulation Environmental and occupational disease Exercise Infectious diseases Infiltrative and interstitial lung diseases Laboratory techniques for studying the lung in health and disease Lung growth Lung injury defence and repair Lung tissues Manifestations of respiratory disease Mechanics Morphogenesis Neonatal and pediatric lung Neoplasms Obstructive diseases Oxygen delivery Peripheral gas exchange Pulmonary circulation and fluid exchange Pulmonary gas exchange Respiratory failure Respiratory manifestations of extrapulmonary disease Respiratory physiology Respiratory pharmacology Sleep