Surgery for Non-Neoplastic Disorders of the Chest

• Verlag: European Respiratory Society
• Jahr: 2004
• ISBN:
  9781904097914
• Thema: Medicine
• Thema: Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine

Diseases of the chest are numerous and a multidisciplinary approach by the chest physician and thoracic surgeon is often required, not only in the management of chest malignancies, but also in the treatment of non-neoplastic disorders of the chest. The role of surgery in many of thesedisorders is extensively discussed in this book.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• Guest editors
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 - Chronic lung allograft rejection: prevalence, pathology, risk factors and pathophysiology
• Chapter 2 - Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome after lung transplantation: diagnosis and treatment
• Chapter 3 - Infection and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome in lung transplant recipients
• Chapter 4 - Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome and bronchiolitis obliterans in lung transplantation: will a pathologist and a physician ever meet?
• Chapter 5 - Strategies in the prevention and the treatment of ischaemia-reperfusion injury after lung transplantation
• Chapter 6 - Alternatives to lung donor shortage
• Chapter 7 - Surgery for emphysema: surgical aspects
• Chapter 8 - Surgery for emphysema: medical aspects
• Chapter 9 - Surgery for emphysema and prospects for the future
• Chapter 10 - Extrapulmonary function-improving surgery
• Chapter 11 - Treatment of suppurative lung disease
• Chapter 12 - Surgical treatment of pleural infections: the surgeon's point of view
• Chapter 13 - Treatment of parapneumonic pleural effusion and empyema: conservative view
• Chapter 14 - Congenital bronchopulmonary malformations in adults
• Chapter 15 - Tracheobronchial ruptures in blunt trauma of the thorax: diagnosis and treatment
• Chapter 16 - Airway injury and sequelae: conservative view
• Instructions to authors