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  • Sarcoidosis
    Sarcoidosis
    Editor Yoshinobu Eishi
    ISBN 978-953-51-1027-9
    290 pages, March, 2013
    Downloads: 334
    More than 130 years have passed since the first description of sarcoid lesions by Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, but the cause of this systemic granulomatous disease is still unknown. Sarcoidosis remains a somewhat mysterious disease because many patients ...
  • Oncogenesis, Inflammatory and Parasitic Tropical Diseases of the Lung
    Oncogenesis, Inflammatory and Parasitic Tropical Diseases of the Lung
    Editor Jean-Marie Kayembe
    ISBN 978-953-51-0982-2
    157 pages, February, 2013
    Downloads: 373
    In this book dealing with the lung health, the authors focus on various fields, spreading from pulmonary oncogenesis, to inflammatory and parasitic lung diseases. The first section deals with the fundamental research on lung cancer that is mandatory ...
  • Respiratory Disease and Infection - A New Insight
    Respiratory Disease and Infection - A New Insight
    Editor Bassam H. Mahboub
    ISBN 978-953-51-0968-6
    251 pages, February, 2013
    Downloads: 488
    Medicine is an ever-changing science. Every day we are encountered with the new developments and knowledge in the pathogenesis, mechanism of disease, newer diagnostic modalities, treatment options and new challenges in the management of the various d ...
  • Global Perspectives on Bronchoscopy
    Global Perspectives on Bronchoscopy
    Editor Sai Praveen Haranath and Samiya Razvi
    ISBN 978-953-51-0642-5
    240 pages, June, 2012
    Downloads: 692
    Bronchoscopy has become an essential part of modern medicine . Recent advances in technology have allowed integration of ultrasound with this tool. The use of lasers along with bronchoscopes has increased the therapeutic utility of this device. Globa ...
  • Emphysema
    Emphysema
    Editor Ravi Mahadeva
    ISBN 978-953-51-0433-9
    134 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 777
    Chronic Obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality world-wide. The most common cause is chronic cigarette smoke inhalation which results in a chronic progressive debilitating lung disease with systemic invol ...
  • Cystic Fibrosis - Renewed Hopes Through Research
    Cystic Fibrosis - Renewed Hopes Through Research
    Editor Dinesh Sriramulu
    ISBN 978-953-51-0287-8
    550 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 888
    Living healthy is all one wants, but the genetics behind creation of every human is different. As a curse or human agony, some are born with congenital defects in their menu of the genome. Just one has to live with that! The complexity of cystic fibr ...
  • Allergic Rhinitis
    Allergic Rhinitis
    Editor Marek L. Kowalski
    ISBN 978-953-51-0288-5
    214 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 1564
    Allergic rhinitis, while troublesome for a patient, may be also a challenge for the physician. That is why physicians must still learn more on the pathophysiology, clinical spectrum and novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to the disease. The ...
  • Pulmonary Infection
    Pulmonary Infection
    Editor Amer Amal
    ISBN 978-953-51-0286-1
    128 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 1096
    Pulmonary infections are notorious in causing considerable morbidity and mortality. Caused by bacteria, viruses or fungi, respiratory infections require distinct knowledge of recent advances in pathogenesis. Progress in the understanding of immunopat ...