Second Edition
edited by Om Sharma
Tropical Lung Disease provides state-of-the-art reviews of the most commonly encountered infectious and noninfectious tropical pulmonary diseases and emphasizes current approaches to the identification, diagnosis, and treatment of tropical lung disorders.
Features:
- Presents a succinct and pragmatic account of methods to analyze and assess patients with tropical pulmonary disease-reinforcing the importance of observation, history, and physical examination
- Studies the role of newly developed bronchoscopy techniques in the management of tropical disease
- Offers a practical approach to pulmonary granulomatous disorders
- Contains an expansive discussion of Behcet's disease
- Includes recent advances concerning the clinical characteristics of FMF
Contents
- Pulmonary Zoonoses
- Symptoms and Signs in Tropical Medicine
- Tropical Pulmonary Radiology
- Recent Advances in the Immunology of the Respiratory Tract
- Bronchoscopy: Diagnostic and Interventional Approach in Tropical Pulmonary Diseases
- Common Tropical Pneumonias: Diagnosis and Treatment
- Pleural Effusions in the Tropics
- Tropical Granulomas: Diagnosis
- Immunopathogenesis and Treatment of Eosinophilic Lung Diseases in the Tropics
- Immunopathogenis of Malaria
- Pulmonary and Critical Care Aspects of Severe Malaria
- Pleuropulmonary Amebiasis
- Paragonimiasis
- Hydatid Lung Disease
- Lung Involvement in Schistosomiasis
- Pulmonary Manifestations in Familial Mediterranean Fever
- Pulmonary Complications of Beh& ccedil;et's Disease
- Endemic Mycosis
- Pulmonary Leptospirosis
- Diffuse Panbronchiolitis
- Pulmonary Complications of Sickle Cell Diseases: The Acute Chest Syndrome
- Treatment of Tuberculosis in the Tropics: Evidence-Based View
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