MANUAL OF CLINICAL PROBLEMS IN PULMONARY MEDICINE -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- I. PULMONARY DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES -- 1. RADIOGRAPHIC EVALUATION OF LUNG DISEASE -- 2. ADVANCED IMAGING AND IMAGE-GUIDED INTERVENTION IN CHEST RADIOLOGY -- 3. PULMONARY FUNCTION TESTING -- 4. EXERCISE -- 5. RADIOISOTOPIC TECHNIQUES -- 6. EVALUATION OF ARTERIAL BLOOD GASES AND ACID-BASE HOMEOSTASIS -- 7. BRONCHOSCOPIC PROCEDURES -- 8. LUNG BIOPSY AND THORACOSCOPY -- 9. MEDIASTINAL EXPLORATION -- 10. PREOPERATIVE PULMONARY EVALUATION -- 11. RIGHT HEART CATHETERIZATION AND MONITORING OF ARTERIAL PRESSURE -- II. SPECIAL PROBLEMS -- 12. PLEURAL EFFUSION -- 13. PNEUMOTHORAX -- 14. HEMOPTYSIS -- 15. ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA -- 16. MIDDLE LOBE SYNDROME -- 17. COMPLICATIONS AFTER PULMONARY RESECTION -- 18. KEY PULMONARY SYMPTOMS: COUGH AND DYSPNEA -- 19. THE LUNG IN PREGNANCY -- 20. HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY -- 21. LUNG IN IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST -- 22. THE LUNG IN DRUG ABUSE -- 23. TOBACCO CONTROL -- 24. TERRORISM: DISASTER MEDICINE FROM THE PULMONOLOGIST'S PERSPECTIVE -- III. PULMONARY INFECTION -- 25. PNEUMONIA: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 26. PNEUMOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA -- 27. STAPHYLOCOCCAL AND STREPTOCOCCAL PNEUMONIAS -- 28. HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE INFECTIONS -- 29. KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIA -- 30. OTHER GRAM-NEGATIVE PNEUMONIAS: PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA, ESCHERICHIA COLI, PROTEUS, SERRATIA, ENTEROBACTER, ACINETOBACTER -- 31. ANAEROBIC PULMONARY INFECTIONS -- 32. EMPYEMA -- 33. ATYPICAL PNEUMONIAS: MYCOPLASMA, CHLAMYDOPHILA (CHLAMYDIA), Q FEVER, AND LEGIONELLA -- 34. VIRAL PNEUMONIA -- 35. TUBERCULOSIS: EPIDEMIOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT OF LATENT INFECTION -- 36. TUBERCULOSIS: CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS AND DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASE -- 37. TUBERCULOSIS: TREATMENT OF DISEASE -- 38. MYCOBACTERIAL INFECTION DUE TO MYCOBACTERIA OTHER THAN TUBERCULOSIS (MOTT).

39. COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS -- 40. HISTOPLASMOSIS -- 41. BLASTOMYCOSIS -- 42. ASPERGILLUS LUNG DISEASE -- 43. NOCARDIOSIS -- 44. CRYPTOCOCCOSIS AND ACTINOMYCOSIS -- 45. NEMATODE AND TREMATODE DISEASES OF THE LUNG -- 46. AMEBIASIS AND ECHINOCOCCAL DISEASES OF THE LUNG -- 47. PULMONARY INFECTIONS AND COMPLICATIONS IN HIV INFECTED PATIENTS -- 48. HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA -- IV. AIRWAYS DISEASE -- 49. ASTHMA: CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND DIAGNOSIS -- -- 50. ASTHMA: MANAGEMENT -- 51. PHARMACOTHERAPY -- 52. CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE: DEFINITION AND EPIDEMIOLOGY -- 53. CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE: CLINICAL AND LABORATORY MANIFESTATIONS, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, AND PROGNOSIS -- 54. CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE: MANAGEMENT -- 55. PULMONARY REHABILITATION -- 56. BRONCHIECTASIS -- V. ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE -- 57. ACUTE HYPERCAPNIC RESPIRATORY FAILURE -- 58. THE ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME -- 59. AIRWAY MANAGEMENT -- 60. MECHANICAL VENTILATION: DEVICES AND METHODS -- 61. MECHANICAL VENTILATION: COMPLICATIONS AND DISCONTINUATION -- 62. OXYGEN THERAPY AND TOXICITY -- 63. PROTOCOL-DRIVEN CARE IN RESPIRATORY THERAPY -- VI. CARDIOVASCULAR AND THROMBOEMBOLIC DISEASE -- 64. THROMBOEMBOLIC DISEASE: EPIDEMIOLOGY, NATURAL HISTORY, AND DIAGNOSIS -- 65. THROMBOEMBOLIC DISEASE: PROPHYLAXIS -- 66. THROMBOEMBOLIC DISEASE: THERAPY -- 67. CHRONIC THROMBOEMBOLIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION -- 68. UNUSUAL FORMS OF EMBOLISM -- 69. PULMONARY HYPERTENSION: PATHOGENESIS AND ETIOLOGY -- 70. PULMONARY HYPERTENSION: DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT -- 71. HEART-LUNG AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION -- VII. CONGENITAL AND PEDIATRIC LUNG DISEASE -- 72. PULMONARY MANIFESTATIONS OF SICKLE CELL DISEASE -- 73. CYSTIC FIBROSIS -- VIII. CHEST WALL AND NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS -- 74. DISORDERS OF THE THORACIC SPINE -- 75. DIAPHRAGMATIC DISORDERS.

76. NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES AND SPINAL CORD INJURY -- 77. SLEEP APNEA, ALVEOLAR HYPOVENTILATION, AND OBESITY HYPOVENTILATION -- IX. ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES -- 78. APPROACHES TO OCCUPATIONAL-ENVIRONMENTAL LUNG DISEASE -- 79. SILICOSIS -- 80. COAL WORKERS' PNEUMOCONIOSIS -- 81. ASBESTOS-RELATED DISEASE -- 82. OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA -- 83. DISABILITY AND MEDICOLEGAL EVALUATION -- 84. PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS IN BURN PATIENTS -- 85. HYPERSENSITIVITY PNEUMONITIS -- 86. NEAR-DROWNING AND DIVING ACCIDENTS -- 87. AIR TRAVEL AND HIGH-ALTITUDE MEDICINE -- 88. RADIATION-INDUCED LUNG DISEASE -- 89. DRUG-INDUCED LUNG DISEASE -- X. IDIOPATHIC, IMMUNOLOGIC, AND GRANULOMATOUS DISEASES -- 90. SARCOIDOSIS -- 91. WEGENER'S GRANULOMATOSIS -- 92. GOODPASTURE'S SYNDROME -- 93. IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY HEMOSIDEROSIS -- 94. IDIOPATHIC INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA -- 95. PULMONARY MANIFESTATIONS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS -- 96. THE LUNGS IN SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS PROGRESSIVE, SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS AND ITS VARIANTS, POLYMYOSITIS, DERMATOMYOSITIS, AND MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE -- 97. PULMONARY LANGERHANS CELL HISTIOCYTOSIS -- 98. NEUROFIBROMATOSIS, LYMPHANGIOMYOMATOSIS, AND TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS -- 99. PULMONARY ALVEOLAR PROTEINOSIS -- XI. NEOPLASTIC DISEASES -- 100. BRONCHIAL CARCINOIDS AND BENIGN NEOPLASMS OF THE LUNG -- 101. LUNG CANCER: CLASSIFICATION, PATHOLOGY, AND EPIDEMIOLOGY -- 102. LUNG CANCER: CLINICAL PRESENTATION, DIAGNOSIS, STAGING, AND PROGNOSIS -- 103. LUNG CANCER SCREENING -- 104. LUNG CANCER: TREATMENT -- 105. EXTRATHORACIC AND ENDOCRINE MANIFESTATIONS OF LUNG CANCER -- 106. SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE -- 107. MEDIASTINAL MASS -- 108. NEOPLASTIC DISEASE OF THE PLEURA -- SUBJECT INDEX.