Handbook of Pulmonary Diseases

Preface; Novel Trends in the Treatment of Meconium-Induced Pneumonia in New-borns; Non-Invasive Monitoring of Airway Inflammation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Induced Sputum & Exhaled Air Analysis (ENO, Exhaled Breath Condensate-EBC); Bronchitis: Causes & Treatment; Bronchiectasis: Epidemiology & Pathogenesis; Theoretical Models for the Simulation of Particle Deposition & Tracheobronchial Clearance in Lungs of Patients with Chronic Bronchitis; Is Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Therapy Always Required for Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia?; A Practical Approach to Parapneumonic Effusions; Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics(PK/PD) in Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia; The Role of Endothelin in Regulating Neutrophil Recruitment to the Lung: Therapeutic Implications for Bacterial Pneumonia; Effects of Pranayama Breathing Patterns on Nasobronchial Diseases: The Power of Breath; Treatment of Diffuse Pulmonary Emphysema with Volume Reduction; Commentary: Phenotypes of COPD; Management & Prevention of Chronic Bronchitis at the Primary Level of Health Care in India; Mediastinal End Subcutaneous Emphysema as a Complication of Labor; Chronic Bronchitis & Primary Humoral Immunodeficiency in Children; Index.