Lung volume reduction surgery for emphysema /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Marcel Dekker,
2004.
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| Series: | Lung biology in health and disease ;
184. |
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Table of Contents:
- Epidemiology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Pathology of emphysema
- Physiology of airflow limitation in emphysema
- Cardiovascular effects of emphysema and lung volume reduction surgery
- Medical therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and emphysema
- Pulmonary rehabilitation and lung volume reduction surgery
- Evaluation of patients considering lung volume reduction surgery
- Radiological evaluation for lung volume reduction surgery
- The interface of lung volume reduction surgery and lung transplantation
- Anesthetic considerations for lung volume reduction surgery
- Technique of lung volume reduction surgery by median sternotomy
- Thoracoscopic approach for lung volume reduction surgery
- Perioperative complications and their management
- Surgical controversies in lung volume reduction
- Giant bullectomy
- Outcomes from lung volume reduction surgery : short-term and long-term results
- Mechanisms of improvement following lung volume reduction surgery
- Lung volume reduction surgery in unique patient populations
- Financial aspects of emphysema and emphysema surgery
- Not the final chapter : the national emphysema treatment trial