Clinical Respiratory Medicine

Farohk Erach Udwadia is Emeritus Professor, Medicine, Grant Medical College; Head, Intensive Care Unit, Breach Candy Hospital. Zarir Farokh Udwadia is Consultant Physician, Respiratory Physician to P D Hinduja National Hospital, Breach Candy Hospital, B D Petit Parsee General Hospital, Mumbai. Anirudh F. Kohli is Consultant Radiologist, Director-in-Charge of the Imaging Unit, Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai.

PREFACE ; SECTION I: IMAGING TECHNIQUES ; 1. Anatomy and Imaging of the Lung ; SECTION II: LUNG PHYSIOLOGY ; 2. Mechanics of Ventilation ; 3. Gas Exchange in the Lung ; 4. Acid-base Balance and Control of Ventilation ; 5. Pulmonary Circulation ; 6. Respiratory Muscle Function Testing ; 7. Pulmonary Function Tests ; SECTION III: DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURES ; 8. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures ; SECTION IV: CLINICAL APPROACH TO RESPIRATORY DISEASE- SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS ; 9. Cough ; 10. Hemoptysis ; 11. Dyspnoea ; 12. Chest Pain or Discomfort ; 13. Clinical Examination of the Respiratory System ; SECTION V: PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS ; 14. Introduction, History and Epidemiology ; 15. Clinical Features, Diagnosis and Treatment ; 16. MDR and XDR- TUBERCULOSIS ; 17. HIV-TB Co-Infection ; 18. Newer Diagnostics and Future Needs ; SECTION VI: INFECTIOUS DISEASES ; 19. Community Acquired Pneumonia ; 20. Non-Bacterial Pneumonia ; 21. Pneumonia in the Non-HIV Immunocompromised Patient ; 22. Nosocomial Pneumonia ; 23. Non-tuberculous Mycobacterial Infections ; 24. Bronchectasis ; 25. Lung Abscess ; 26. Upper Respiratory Tract Infections ; SECTION VII: ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE AND ITS MANAGEMENT ; 27. Antibiotics Resistance and its Management, Section VIII: HIV AND THE LUNG ; 28. HIV and the Lung ; SECTION IX: TROPICAL INFECTIONS INVOLVING THE LUNG ; 29. Helminthic Lung Diseases ; 30. Pulmonary Manifestations of Protozoal Infection ; 31. Pulmonary Involvement in Systemic Tropical Infections ; SECTION X: AIRWAY DISEASES ; 32. Asthma: Introduction, Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis ; 33. Asthma: Clinical features, Diagnosis ; 34. Asthma: Management ; 35. Asthma: Special Types ; 36. COPD: Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Cclinical Features, Diagnosis and Imaging ; 37. Acute exacerbation of COPD ; 28. COPD: Management ; 39. Cystic Fibrosis ; 40. Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis ; 41. Diffuse Panbronchiolitis and Bronchiolitis ; 42. Oxygen Therapy ; SECTION XI: LUNG TUMOURS ; 43. Lung Cancer and Other Lung Tumours ; SECTION XII: INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASES AND OTHER DIFFUSE LUNG DISEASES ; 44. Interstitial Lung Disease- Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia ; 45. Sarcoidosis ; 46. Langerhan's Cell Histiocytosis ; 47. LAM and other Rare Diffuse Lung Diseases ; 48. Extrinsic Allergic Alveolitis ; 49. Eosinophilic Pneumonia ; SECTION XIII: PULMONARY VASCULAR DISORDERS ; 50. Pulmonary Vasculitides ; 51. Pulmonary Hypertension ; 52. Pulmonary Embolism ; SECTION XIV: PRINCIPLES OF RESPIRATORY CARE ; 53. Acute Respiratory Failure in Adults ; 54. Airway Management ; 55. Mechanical Ventilation ; SECTION XV: ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME ; 56. ARDS ; SECTION XVI: PULMONARY MANIFESTATIONS OF SYSTEMIC DISEASES ; 57. Connective Tissue Disorders ; 58. Hepatobiliary Disease ; 59. Renal Disease ; 60. Inflammatory Bowel Disease ; 61. Obstetric and Gynecological Conditions ; SECTION XVII: DISEASES OF THE PLEURA ; 62. Pleural effusions, Empyema ; 63. Pneumothorax ; 64. Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma ; SECTION XVIII: DISEASES OF THE MEDIASTINUM ; 65. Diseases of the Mediastinum ; SECTION XIX: OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL LUNG DISEASE ; 66. Pneumoconiosis-Silicosis and Coal worker's Pneumoconiosis ; 67. Asbestosis ; 68. Occupational Asthma ; 69. Environmental Pollution and Inhalational Lung Injury ; SECTION XX: DRUG INDUCED LUNG INJURIES ; 70. Drugs and the Lung ; SECTION XXI: TRAUMA AND CHEST WALL DISORDERS ; 71. Trauma to the Chest, 72. Chest Wall Disorders ; SECTION XXII: SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING ; 72. Obstructive Sleep Apnoea ; 73. Central Sleep Apnoea and Other Forms of Sleep Related Disorders