Problem Solving in Respiratory Medicine and Allergy

Description:
Every doctor’s point-of-care companion in the consultation room and on the ward, for respiratory disorders. A series of questions leads the reader logically through a case presentation, work-up, diagnosis and discussion of recent literature. Each case is concisely presented, including an algorithm where appropriate to show overall management strategies. This is a user-friendly resource for quick review and assessment of individual cases, covering the most common yet challenging cases seen by respiratory doctors. It will be extremely useful as a reference and training resource in the hospital, clinic or GP’s surgery.

Benefits:
- Over 30 clinical presentations covering the most common yet challenging cases seen by respiratory clinicians - Focus is not just general respiratory disease, but also allergic disorders - Excellent training resource and up-to-date referencing to present recent developments in diagnosis and management

Author:
RM Leach, Department of Respiratory Medicine and Allergy, The Guy's, King's College and St. Thomas Hospitals School of Medicine, London, UK.

Readership:
Specialists in respiratory medicine * Internal medicine physicians * GPs * Doctors in training

CONTENTS

Abbreviations
Introduction

Part I: Infection
1. Tuberculosis - role of steroids
2. Invasive Aspergillosis - diagnosis and treatment
3. Pneumonia - BTS guidelines vs. ATS guideline
4. Hospital acquired pneumonia: new ATS guidelines
5. Necrobacilliosis - unusual pneumonia problem solving
6. Abscesses - staphylococcal
7. Bronchiectasis - diagnosis and massive haemoptysis
8. "Non-resolving pneumonia"

Part II: Obstructive lung disease/small airways disease
9. COPD - management update current recommendations
10. Asthma - Anti igE AMD
11. Occupational asthma
12. Alpha 1 Def

Part III: Interstitial lung disease / sarcoid
13. DIP/RBILD - smoking, management
14. UIP - investigation and management
15. NSIP
16. Sarcoid, BHL & infiltratitive - asymptomatic management
17. Sarcoid stage II - steroid / new therapies and prognosis
18. Extrinsic Allergic Alveolitis
19. Therapy related - amiodarone

Part IV: Lung cancer
20. Small cell - chemotherapy
21. Non-small cell - staging and therapy
22. Solitary pulmonary nodule - investigation
23. Mediastinal mass

Part V: Pulmonary vascular
24. Pulmonary hypertension - new therapies
25. Pulmonary embolism - general management
26. Pulmonary embolism - rare case cryptococcal
27. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension - surgery
28. Pulmonary embolism - tumour microemboli
29. AVM - clinical diagnosis
30. Sickle lung - pathogenesis / management

Part VI: Vasculitis / allergy
31. Wegener’s - diagnosis, management, treatment
32. MPA - alveolar haemorrhage
33. Laryngospasm
34. Allergic asthma desensitisation

Part VII: Ventilatory failure / sleep
35. Blood gases - interpretation
36. Upper airways obstruction
37. ALI/ARDS - CPAP and ventilatory strategies; therapy
38. OSA/OHS
39. Neuromuscular - GBS & myasthenia
40. Diaphragmatic paralysis

Part VIII: Immunocompromised / HIV
41. Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
42. LIP
43. Pulmonary infiltrates in the non-HIV immunocompromised host

Part IX: Pleural Disease
44. Pneumothorax
45. Effusion - malignant / TB
46. Empyema

Part X: Rare diseases
47. Acute eosinophilic pneumonia
48. Langerhan’s cell histiocytosis

General index