Manual of Clinical Problems in Pulmonary Medicine Book

1	Radiographic evaluation of lung disease	3
2	Advanced imaging and image-guided intervention in chest radiology	7
3	Pulmonary function testing	10
4	Exercise	20
5	Radioisotopic techniques	24
6	Evaluation of arterial blood gases and acid-base homeostasis	28
7	Bronchoscopic procedures	37
8	Lung biopsy and thoracoscopy	45
9	Mediastinal exploration	49
10	Preoperative pulmonary evaluation	53
11	Right heart catheterization and monitoring of arterial pressure	57
12	Pleural effusion	63
13	Pneumothorax	69
14	Hemoptysis	75
15	Aspiration pneumonia	81
16	Middle lobe syndrome	85
17	Complications after pulmonary resection	87
18	Key pulmonary symptoms : cough and dyspnea	92
19	The lung in pregnancy	98
20	Hyperbaric oxygen therapy	102
21	Lung in immunocompromised host	109
22	The lung in drug abuse	114
23	Tobacco control	121
24	Terrorism : disaster medicine from the pulmonologist's perspective	125
25	Pneumonia : general considerations	135
26	Pneumococcal pneumonia	140
27	Staphylococcal and streptococcal pneumonias	146
28	Haemophilus influenzae infections	149
29	Klebsiella pneumonia	153
30	Other gram-negative pneumonias : Pseudomonas aeruginosa Escherichia coli, Proteus, Serratia, Enterobacter, Acinetobacter	156
31	Anaerobic pulmonary infections	165
32	Empyema	170
33	Atypical pneumonias : mycoplasma, chlamydophila (chlamydia), Q fever, and legionella	174
34	Viral pneumonia	180
35	Tuberculosis : epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of latent infection	185
36	Tuberculosis : clinical manifestations and diagnosis of disease	190
37	Tuberculosis : treatment of disease	195
38	Mycobacterial infection due to mycobacteria other than tuberculosis (MOTT)	200
39	Coccidioidomycosis	207
40	Histoplasmosis	214
41	Blastomycosis	220
42	Aspergillus lung disease	223
43	Nocardiosis	231
44	Cryptococcosis and actinomycosis	234
45	Nematode and trematode diseases of the lung	241
46	Amebiasis and echinococcal diseases of the lung	245
47	Pulmonary infections and complications in HIV infected patients	249
48	Hospital-acquired pneumonia	257
49	Asthma : clinical presentation and diagnosis	265
50	Asthma : management	272
51	Pharmacotherapy	280
52	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease : definition and epidemiology	287
53	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease : clinical and laboratory manifestations, pathophysiology, and prognosis	293
54	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease : management	296
55	Pulmonary rehabilitation	303
56	Bronchiectasis	306
57	Acute hypercapnic respiratory failure	317
58	The acute respiratory distress syndrome	324
59	Airway management	330
60	Mechanical ventilation : devices and methods	334
61	Mechanical ventilation : complications and discontinuation	339
62	Oxygen therapy and toxicity	345
63	Protocol-driven care in respiratory therapy	351
64	Thromboembolic disease : epidemiology, natural history, and diagnosis	357
65	Thromboembolic disease : prophylaxis	364
66	Thromboembolic disease : therapy	369
67	Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension	375
68	Unusual forms of embolism	384
69	Pulmonary hypertension : pathogenesis and etiology	392
70	Pulmonary hypertension : diagnosis and treatment	397
71	Heart-lung and lung transplantation	402
72	Pulmonary manifestations of sickle cell disease	411
73	Cystic fibrosis	417
74	Disorders of the thoracic spine	427
75	Diaphragmatic disorders	431
76	Neuromuscular diseases and spinal cord injury	436
77	Sleep apnea, alveolar hypoventilation, and obesity hypoventilation	441
78	Approaches to occupational-environmental lung disease	451
79	Silicosis	454
80	Coal workers' pneumoconiosis	457
81	Asbestos-related disease	461
82	Occupational asthma	464
83	Disability and medicolegal evaluation	468
84	Pulmonary complications in burn patients	472
85	Hypersensitivity pneumonitis	475
86	Near-drowning and diving accidents	480
87	Air travel and high-altitude medicine	486
88	Radiation-induced lung disease	494
89	Drug-induced lung disease	500
90	Sarcoidosis	511
91	Wegener's granulomatosis	515
92	Goodpasture's syndrome	519
93	Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis	526
94	Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia	529
95	Pulmonary manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis	536
96	The lungs in systemic lupus erythematosus progressive, systemic sclerosis and its variants, polymyositis, dermatomyositis, and mixed connective tissue disease	542
97	Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis	551
98	Neurofibromatosis, lymphangiomyomatosis, and tuberous sclerosis	556
99	Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis	562
100	Bronchial carcinoids and benign neoplasms of the lung	571
101	Lung cancer : classification, pathology, and epidemiology	576
102	Lung cancer : clinical presentation, diagnosis, staging, and prognosis	580
103	Lung cancer screening	586
104	Lung cancer : treatment	592
105	Extrathoracic and endocrine manifestations of lung cancer	596
106	Solitary pulmonary nodule	602
107	Mediastinal mass	607
108	Neoplastic disease of the pleura	613