Problems in Respiratory Medicine

Problems in Respiratory Medicine by E. Forgacs.

The topics chosen for discussion represent the most common problems referred by family doctors to chest clinics. It was taken for granted that the reader will be familiar with the symptoms, signs, and natural history of respiratory diseases, so that the stress is on differential diagnosis and treatm...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Forgacs, E. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1981.
Edition:1st ed. 1981.
Series:Problems in Practice ; 2
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
General practice (Medicine).
Respiratory organs—Diseases.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Symptoms, clinical signs and breathing tests
  • Cough
  • Sputum
  • Haemoptysis
  • Dyspnoea
  • Pain
  • Percussion
  • Auscultation
  • Clubbing of the fingers-Cyanosis
  • Pursed-lip breathing
  • 2 Pneumonia
  • Defences of the lung-Factors predisposing to infection
  • Classification
  • Clinicalfeatures
  • Investigations
  • Complications
  • Recurrent pneumonia
  • Differential diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • 3 Chronic bronchitis
  • Prevalence
  • Pathology
  • Clinicalfeatures
  • Investigations
  • Differential diagnosis
  • Complications
  • Treatment
  • 4 Asthma
  • Pathogenesis
  • Classification
  • Clinicalfeatures
  • Investigations
  • Differential diagnosis
  • Prognosis
  • Treatment
  • 5 Tuberculosis
  • Mortality
  • Natural history
  • Presentation
  • Diagnostic tests
  • Investigation of contacts
  • Prevention
  • Treatment
  • 6 Cancer of the lung
  • Mortality
  • Aetiology
  • Classification
  • Presentation
  • Clinicalsigns
  • Progress
  • Investigations
  • Differential diagnosis
  • Prevention
  • Treatment
  • 7 Pleural effusions
  • Aetiology
  • Investigations
  • Differential diagnosis
  • Tumours of the pleura
  • Complications
  • Treatment
  • 8 Recurrent respiratory illness in children
  • Viral infections
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Immune deficiencies
  • Bronchiectasis
  • 9 Fibrosing alveolitis
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • 10 Spontaneous pneumothorax
  • Pathogenesis
  • Symptoms and signs
  • Treatment
  • 11 Pulmonary sarcoidosis
  • Natural history
  • Treatment
  • Further reading.

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