Pulmonary Involvement in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases (Volume 2) (Handbook of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Volume 2) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444516522 ISBN 13: 9780444516527

Publisher: Elsevier Science, 2004

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0444516522
• ISBN 13: 9780444516527
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 314
• Editor: Doria Andrea, Pauletto Paolo