Thoracic category: 706 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The goal of this book is to further insight into the challenges related to respiratory health. Medical experts present their lines of scientific investigations on how to contain the disease, care for patients, and use preventive measures, with a focus on pulmonary-related disorders. Progress in the...
Pediatric Ventricular Assist Devices
Ishlt Monograph Series Volume 11
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
This monograph, entitled, Pediatric Ventricular Assist Devices, reflects the collective effort of many people in the international field of pediatric ventricular assist devices and is a testament to the growth of this field over the last decade. This work summarizes the most current literature in...
by R. Lange, Raffaele DeSimone, S. Hagl
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Diese ideale Einführung in die TEE ist mit hervorragenden Originalaufnahmen ausgestattet. Zwei Disketten für Macintosh zeigen vier Filme, die auch auf der CD-ROM für Macintosh enthalten sind.
Sepsis
Definitions, Pathophysiology and the Challenge of Bedside Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
This book is designed to provide a comprehensive and state-of-the-art resource for clinicians who care for patients with sepsis and research scientist alike, . Patients with severe sepsis requiring ICU admission have very high rates of ICU and overall hospital mortality, with estimates ranging from...
Chlamydia pneumoniae and Chronic Diseases
Proceedings of the State-of-the-Art Workshop held at the Robert Koch-Institut Berlin on 19 and 20 March 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
International specialists in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Cardiology Immunology, Pneumonology, Neurology and Epidemiology gathered to this workshop to discuss and enhance interdisciplinary knowledge on the possible etiological role of Chlamydia pneumoniae, a widespread human...
Asthma, COPD, and Overlap
A Case-Based Overview of Similarities and Differences
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Using illustrative case examples, this book thoroughly reviews similarities and differences between asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and the overlap syndrome. It is important to highlight the distinctions because these commonly encountered conditions in respiratory and primary...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
This book presents the current trends and state of the art solutions addressing various issues related to pulmonary disorders. Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges are tackled, starting with the noncommunicable diseases of sarcoidosis and granulomatosis with polyangiitis. Pulmonary involvement, practically...
by M. Simon, F. Pinet, M. Amiel
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Since the respiratory airways branch to all parts of the lungs and ready access is provided through the nose or mouth, exploration of these passages for direct visualization or tissue sampling has long been a clinical challenge. This would be particularly helpful in diagnosing those pulmonary diseases...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Attempts to reconstruct various parts of the heart started even before the beginning of open cardiac surgery. By the late 1950s and early 1960 s several closed and open procedures had already been described. In that era, several surgeons in Europe and the Americas were particularly prompted to develop...
Lung Cancer
Treatment and Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
This book describes the molecular mechanisms of lung cancer development and progression that determine therapeutic interventions in the era of genomics, when the rapid evolution in lung cancer diagnosis and treatment necessitates critical review of new results to integrate advances into practice....
by Terence K. Trow, MD
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Guest editor Terence K. Trow has assembled an expert team of authors on the topic of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Articles include: Epidemiology of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, Pathology of Pulmonary Hypertension, Genetics of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, Diagnosis of Pulmonary Arterial...
by Robert Groves, Mark Parker, Joanna Kusmirek
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death among men and women in the U.S. and worldwide. For many decades, lung cancer was the sole cancer among the deadly four without an evidence-based screening method for decreasing mortality. This changed in November 2011, when findings from the...
by Jeffrey P Kanne, MD, FCCP
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
This issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America focuses on Diffuse Lung Disease, and is edited by Dr. Jeffrey Kanne. Articles will include: Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias: An Update; Collagen-Vascular Diseases; Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis; Acute Lung Injury; Occupational Lung Diseases; Pulmonary...
Bronchial Carcinoma
An Integrated Approach to Diagnosis and Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
In a condition of such complexity as bronchial carcinoma and at a time when the scientist's understanding of malignant disease is still incomplete, it is inevitable that views within the medical profession will proliferate. This book is an attempt to assemble these views in the light of 33 years of...