Pulmonary Involvement in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases: Volume 2

By Christopher P. Denton and Athol U. Wells

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0444516522
• ISBN13: 9780444516527
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 10.6"