| Description |
1 online resource (257 pages) |
| Series |
European Respiratory Monograph ; v.29 |
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European respiratory monograph.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Guest editors -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chronic lung allograft rejection: prevalence, pathology, risk factors and pathophysiology -- Chapter 2 -- Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome after lung transplantation: diagnosis and treatment -- Chapter 3 -- Infection and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome in lung transplant recipients -- Chapter 4 -- Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome and bronchiolitis obliterans in lung transplantation: will a pathologist and a physician ever meet? |
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Chapter 13 -- Treatment of parapneumonic pleural effusion and empyema: conservative view -- Chapter 14 -- Congenital bronchopulmonary malformations in adults -- Chapter 15 -- Tracheobronchial ruptures in blunt trauma of the thorax: diagnosis and treatment -- Chapter 16 -- Airway injury and sequelae: conservative view -- Instructions to authors |
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Chapter 5 -- Strategies in the prevention and the treatment of ischaemia-reperfusion injury after lung transplantation -- Chapter 6 -- Alternatives to lung donor shortage -- Chapter 7 -- Surgery for emphysema: surgical aspects -- Chapter 8 -- Surgery for emphysema: medical aspects -- Chapter 9 -- Surgery for emphysema and prospects for the future -- Chapter 10 -- Extrapulmonary function-improving surgery -- Chapter 11 -- Treatment of suppurative lung disease -- Chapter 12 -- Surgical treatment of pleural infections: the surgeon's point of view |
| Summary |
Diseases of the chest are numerous and a multidisciplinary approach by the chest physician and thoracic surgeon is often required, not only in the management of chest malignancies, but also in the treatment of non-neoplastic disorders of the chest. Furthermore, many advances and improvements are put forward in the overall management of patients with advanced lung disease; besides lung transplantation, volume reduction surgery is reported as an alternative surgical option for emphysema patients which may delay, or even preclude the need for transplant. Management of suppurative lung and pleural |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lerut, T.
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Van Raemdonck, D
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| ISBN |
190409791X |
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9781904097914 |
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