Pulmonary Involvement in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases: Volume 2 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780444516527)

In this book is found the information essential to diagnosing, managing and treating the lung complications of connective tissue diseases. This is a notoriously difficult area, which continues to puzzle clinicians, despite the fact that these disorders are increasingly frequent (as a result of longer survival in connective tissue disease). In separate chapters, the major connective tissue diseases are reviewed, with detailed discussion of a variety of lung abnormalities, including pleural disease, parenchymal lung disease and pulmonary vascular disease. There are also invaluable overviews of lung histological and CT appearances in these disorders, and a deeply insightful chapter on drug-induced lung disease in connective tissue disease. The emphasis in this book is on accuracy of evaluation and the construction of a logical management plan, based on disease severity and intrinsic progressiveness.

Author: Ronald Asherson
ISBN-10: 0444516522
ISBN-13: 9780444516527
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Language: English
Published: 12/16/2004
Pages: 314
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.96lbs
Size: 10.58h x 7.48w x 0.69d