Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (eBook)

Professor Robert Stockley is the Head of Department at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. He is a respiratory physician working in the field of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Professor Stephen Rennard is Larson Professor of Medicine in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. He is the North American Editor for Respiratory Medicine and Associate Editor for COPD for the European Respiratory Journal. Professor Klaus Rabe is Professor of Pulmonary Medicine and Chairman for the Department of Pneumology in the University of Leiden. He has been active in various fields of respiratory medicine in Europe and was the first European Associate Editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. He is co-Chief Editor of the European Respiratory Journal. Dr Bart Celli is Professor of Medicine at Tufts University in Boston and Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the St Elizabeth's Medical Center at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is the author of more than 120 publications on COPD and is the co-editor of Baum's Textbook of Pulmonary Diseases and Hodgkin's Textbook in Pulmonary Rehabilitation.

"Appropriate to the intense proliferation of research and
publications in the last few decades for this major health problem,
the editors of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease have
produced a comprehensive textbook that spans the basic and clinical
science of COPD. This substantial tome includes 912 pages, 243
illustrations, and 70 chapters authored by an international cadre
of contributors...

The succinct writing style, judicious use of complementary
illustrations, and well-focused references achieve the desired
breadth without compromising sufficient depth or
readability...

Section 3 focuses on cellular physiology and inflammation. This
section exemplifies the strength of this textbook, digesting a
large body of developing science into comprehensible synopses of
the disease processes that form the basis for therapeutic
opportunities...

In summary, the editors and authors of Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease have achieved their goal by creating a
current textbook covering many facets of this complex disorder. In
parallel with the field of COPD, the textbook has its strength in
the scientific underpinnings of airway and lung physiology and
advances in the understanding of cellular and physiological
derangements." - Richard A. Mularski (MD, MSHS, MRC), JAMA,
September 2007

"The strength of the book lies in the more than 100
authors...recognized worldwide. Most of the chapters are
excellent reviews and are carefully referenced."

New England Journal of Medicine

"...In summary, the editors and authors of Chronic
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease have achieved their goal by
creating a current textbook covering many facets of this complex
disorder. In parallel with the field of COPD, the textbook has its
strength in the scientific underpinnings of airway and lung
physiology and advances in the understanding of cellular and
physiological derangements"Richard A. Mularski for John
L. Zeller, MD, PhD, Fishbein Fellow Books and Media Reviews Section
Editor, JAMA

"This book does an outstanding job of outlining the major
aspects of COPD. Topics are organized logically and each chapter
has ample references...highlighting important concepts."

Doodys Reviews