- Deals comprehensively with the wide fields of rare pulmonary diseases
- Clinically-orientated information for the clinician, together with “clinical vignettes”
- Contains practical and easy-to-access information on the diagnostic approach, with illustrations of chest imaging
The second edition comprehensively reviews the wide field of rare pulmonary diseases.
Issues such as less common diseases affecting the airways, systematic disorders with lung involvement, interstitial lung diseases, and many other orphan conditions of the lungs are explored in this book. The progress and advances made in the field and the limited number of patients presenting each condition makes it very difficult for clinicians to be up-to-date in this field. Readers will discover how to diagnose and manage these rare orphan diseases.
Orphan Lung Diseases: A Clinical Guide to Rare Lung Disease is a practical, informative book written by a team of international authors with much experience in rare pulmonary diseases
Orphan Lung Diseases: A Clinical Guide to Rare Lung Disease, second edition provides synthesized and easily accessible information about the main orphan lung diseases, to aid clinicians in charge of patients with rare disease, or who consider the diagnosis of a rare disease in their patient. It is a practical, informative guide written by a team of international experienced authors in rare pulmonary diseases.
Contents Overview- Introduction
- Orphan Diseases of the Airways
- Systemic Disorders with Lung Involvement
- Lung-Dominant or -Limited Orphan Diseases
- Genetic Rare Lung Diseases
- Interstitial Lung Diseases, Non Systemic
- Miscellaneous Orphan Lung Diseases
