Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease : pathogenesis to treatment.
Current treatment can offer some marginal symptomatic relief but does not address the underlying disease process. Indeed, smoking cessation is the only intervention known to alter the rate of disease progression. There is clearly great need, and potential, for the development of superior therapies f...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester ; New York :
Wiley,
©2001.
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| Series: | Novartis Foundation symposium ;
234. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Current treatment can offer some marginal symptomatic relief but does not address the underlying disease process. Indeed, smoking cessation is the only intervention known to alter the rate of disease progression. There is clearly great need, and potential, for the development of superior therapies for symptomatic relief and disease modification. This book brings together leading researchers and physicians to discuss the most recent advances in our understanding of COPD, and draws together basic and clinical aspects relevant to the topic. Coverage includes the basic pathology, current and potential therapies, and detailed consideration of the major theories for the pathogenesis of COPD. |
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| Item Description: | Edited by Derek Chadwick and Jamie A. Goode. Based on a symposium held at the Novartis Foundation, London, 25-27 January 2000. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 286 pages : : illustrations.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780470868676 (electronic bk.) 0470868678 (electronic bk.) |