Orphan Lung Diseases

• Publisher: European Respiratory Society
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9781849840149
• Topic: Medicina
• Subtopic: Malattie e allergie

Orphan lung diseases differ from the more common pulmonary disorders, due to the fact that the respiratory physician will only see a few of them each year or even during their career. However, as a specialist, it is necessary to identify and confirm such a diagnosis in a patient. This Monograph comprehensively covers the most common and/or complex of these orphan lung diseases.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Guest Editor
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's)
• Chapter 2 Alveolar haemorrhage syndromes
• Chapter 3 Pulmonary involvement in Bechcet's disease and Takayasu's arteritis
• Chapter 4 Multiple cystic lung diseases
• Chapter 5 Bronchiolitis
• Chapter 6 Interstitial lung diseases with autoimmune features
• Chapter 7 Idiopathic eosinophilic pneumonias
• Chapter 8 Churg-Strauss syndrome
• Chapter 9 Amyloidosis and the lung
• Chapter 10 Alveolar lipoproteinosis syndromes
• Chapter 11 Idiopathic tracheopathies
• Chapter 12 primary ciliary dyskinesia
• Chapter 13 Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations and other pulmonary aspects ofHHT
• Chapter 14 Hepatopulmonary syndrome: a liver-induced oxygenation defect
• Chapter 15 Thoracic endometriosis and catamenial pneumothorax
• Chapter 16 Smoking-related interstitial lung disease
• Chapter 17 Rare interstitial lung diseases of environmental origin
• Chapter 18 Pulmonary hypertension in orphan lung diseases
• Chapter 19 Rare indications for lung transplantation
• Chapter 20 Pseudo-tumours and reciprocal mimics of neoplastic and non-neoplastic pulmonary disorders