- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction
- COPD, a major health care issue: evidence-based medicine, medical decision making and COPD
- Understanding COPD and its impact
- The burden of COPD
- Pathogenesis of COPD
- COPD as a systemic disease
- Assessing COPD
- Early diagnosis of COPD: usefulness, tools and actors
- Assessment of symptoms and quality of life in the COPD patient
- Measuring ventilatory and respiratory impairment
- Imaging of lung morphology and function
- Assessing systemic consequences of COPD
- Initial assessment and follow-up of COPD: what should be assessed and when, from guidelines to clinical practice
- Deciding Treatments in COPD
- Goals of treatments and measurement of their efficacy, from clinical trials to real world practice A global treatment strategy for a global disease
- Pharmacological Treatments of COPD
- Choosing the right bronchodilator
- When should glucocorticoids be prescribed in COPD PDE4 inhibitors: new options in the management of COPD Mucus production: why and how it could be modulated
- Treating and preventing infections
- New pharmacological treatments for COPD
- Managing exacerbations: an overview
- Non Pharmacological Approaches and Instrumental Support in COPD
- Exercise training in COPD
- Other components of rehabilitation / supportive measures in COPD
- Long-term oxygen therapy
- Long-term ventilation
- Specific Pecific Issues Surrounding the COPD Patient
- Tobacco addiction in COPD
- The pulmonary vasculature in COPD
- The heart and COPD
- Psychological status in COPD
- Sleep and COPD
- Other respiratory diseases in COPD
- Palliative care
- How the COPD patient should be assessed for co-morbidities
- Surgical management of emphysema
- Surgery
- Management of the COPD patient undergoing surgery
- Conclusions: Optimizing The Use of Health of Care Resources in COPD
- Stephen I Rennard, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA
- Roberto Rodriguez-Roisin, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
- Gerard Huchon, Universite Paris Descartes, Hopital de l'Hotel-Dieu, Paris
- Nicolas Roche, Universite Paris Descartes, Hopital de l'Hotel-Dieu, Paris
“This is one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatises that I have surveyed covering basic molecular biology and genetics underlying the disease... very accessible. I would personally consider it a very practical resource and would be intent upon adding it to my personal library.”
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