Oxford University Press, 2008. — 160 p. Around 5 million people are currently affected by asthma in the UK; Includes Key Points boxes at the start of each chapter to quickly summarise important concepts covered in the text; Features numerous Case Histories and Patient Perspectives which provide practical examples throughout; Myths and Facts boxes highlight common...
2nd edition. — Academic Press, 2009. — 824 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-374001-4 Asthma and COPD: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Management, Second Edition continues to provide a unique and authoritative comparison of asthma and COPD. Written and edited by the world's leading experts, it continues to be a comprehensive review of the most recent understanding of the basic mechanisms of...
2nd edition. — Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, 2005. — 347 p. This revised edition is a comprehensive review of bronchial asthma and provides practical information for Physicians and Pulmonologists who have to take appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic decisions in patients with bronchial asthma. Bronchial asthma is now considered as a chronic inflammatory disease of the...
CRC Press, 2018. — 304 p. Using illustrative case examples, this book thoroughly reviews similarities and differences between asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and the overlap syndrome. It is important to highlight the distinctions because these commonly encountered conditions in respiratory and primary care share many similarities but have important...
CRC Press, 2014. — 334 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-4665-8562-1. Enormous progress in asthma research has been made in the past 50 years, including a greater understanding of its complex pathogenesis and new and more effective therapies. Consequently, the scientific literature has grown vast and can be difficult to integrate. With contributions from a distinguished panel of...
CRC Press, 2014. — 337 p. Enormous progress in asthma research has been made in the past 50 years, including a greater understanding of its complex pathogenesis and new and more effective therapies. Consequently, the scientific literature has grown vast and can be difficult to integrate. With contributions from a distinguished panel of world-renowned authors, Clinical Asthma:...
Institute of Medicine. — National Academies Press, 2000. — 456 p. Since about 1980, asthma prevalence and asthma-related hospitalizations and deaths have increased substantially, especially among children. Of particular concern is the high mortality rate among African Americans with asthma. Recent studies have suggested that indoor exposures--to dust mites, cockroaches, mold,...
Springer, 2019. — 162 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-20553-9 This comprehensive book presents an evidence-based approach to treating asthma in adults aged 65 and older, a vulnerable subset of patients who are more likely to experience higher morbidity and mortality rates, and often enduring higher financial burdens related to treatment. Treatment of Asthma in Older Adults: A...
6th edition. — Springer, 2011. — 439 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4419-6835-7 Hailed by professional journals and esteemed by primary care physicians, Bronchial Asthma: A Guide for Practical Understanding and Treatment, Sixth Edition, has been fully updated to help physicians face the challenge of diagnosis and management in every variety of patient subpopulation. Clinical Definitions The...
Springer, 2010. — 347 p. — e-ISBN: 978-0-387-78285-0 More is spent per person on health care in the United States than in any other nation in the world. Healthcare spending is twice as great in the United Sates as compared to any other country on the planet, and accounts for roughly 15% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product. Despite the reach and tangle of healthcare...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 262 p. Asthma is a common chronic inflammatory condition affecting the airways and displays a varied phenotypic picture. It is becoming increasingly recognized by healthcare workers and epidemiological studies suggest that along with other atopic diseases, its prevalence is rising. The precise etiology of asthma remains uncertain, but genetic...
Humana, 2020. — 334 p. This book provides a practical, stepwise, evidence-based approach to effective management of patients with difficult to treat asthma. The impact of asthma on morbidity and healthcare utilization increases exponentially with severity. Severe refractory asthma accounts for less than 5% of all asthma. Its prevalence, however, is often overestimated as there...
Arnold, 2002. — 176 p. Clinicians' Guide to Asthma puts the care of patients with asthma into context for the GP / Primary care specialist and general hospital physician, presenting the current knowledge regarding asthma and its treatment in an accessible manner. Topics covered include epidemiology, socio-economic costs, causes and pathophysiology, mechanisms, pharmacologic...
Greenhaven Publishing LLC, 2018. — 104 p. Asthma is a long-lasting, incurable disease that affects over 300 million people, and that number continues to grow. As readers explore the science and current research behind asthma, they learn about the dangers of this disease and how everyday things in our world can greatly affect asthmatics. Readers also discover the tremendous...
Springer, 2018. — 135 p. This book presents state of the art knowledge on severe asthma with the aim of providing readers with a clear understanding of, first, the heterogeneity of the condition and of patients’ symptom profiles and responses to therapy and, second, the future implications of this heterogeneity for individualized patient care. After an opening section that...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 513 p. — ISBN10: 0199918066, ISBN13: 978-0199918065. Asthma sufferers number approximately 200 million worldwide, with 15-20 million of those in the United States. Multiple comorbid conditions occur with asthma, including rhinitis, rhinosinusitis, gastroesophageal reflux disease, sleep apnea, vocal cord dysfunction syndrome, obesity, and chronic...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 1036 p. Aimed at specialists in respiratory medicine, this new book comprehensively reviews the variety of agents currently available for treatment of asthma, COPD, and other airway diseases and covers practical guidelines as well as challenges and complications in their use. Advances in Combination Therapy for Asthma and COPD is the first book to...
Springer, 2017. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-52173-2. In 2004 we edited Volume 161 on the Pharmacology and Therapeutics of Asthma and COPD as part of this prestigious series. Over the last decade there have been substantial increases in our understanding of the mechanisms underlying asthma and COPD, as well as in the treatment of these important diseases. We have brought together...
6th edition. — Wiley, 2010. — 105 p. Asthma is a common condition with increasing prevalence. This new edition of the highly regarded ABC of Asthma has been thoroughly revised with reference to the latest British Thoracic Society guidelines on the management of asthma in children and adults. It covers the advances in practice and methods, with a new emphasis on delivery...
Marcel Dekker, 2001. — 337 p. Performing a thorough and detailed study of one of the most common yet less accurately understood causes of human illness, this all-inclusive reference examines the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and future treatment options for asthma and respiratory infections. Contains up-to-date results from clinical trials of antiviral agents that explore new...
Springer, 2018. - 390 p. - Volume 12 of Translational Bioinformatics. This volume in the series, Translational Bioinformatics, provides an up-to-date overview of genomic approaches to asthma. By applying unbiased “-omics” combined with disease-focused and hypothesis-driven approaches, it enhances readers’ understanding of the asthma endotype. Furthermore, it elucidates how...
A Pocket Guide for Health Professionals. — Global Initiative for Asthma, 2016. — 28 p. The Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention was extensively revised in 2014 to provide a comprehensive and integrated approach to asthma management that can be adapted for local conditions and for individual patients. It focuses not only on the existing strong evidence base, but...
Springer, 2019. — 189 p. This book provides discussions on bronchial asthma from a clinical perspective, focusing on the recent studies on its pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment. It also explores the lastest findings regarding the phenotypes and endotypes of asthmatic patients, making it of particular interest to those involved with non-eosinophilic asthma and...
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