Chest Medicine

Part 1: Asthma. Part 2 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: management of cor pulmonale; sleep apnoea. Part 3 Bronchiectasis. Part 4 Fibrosing lung disease: granulomatous - extrinsic allergic alveolitis, sarcoidosis, tuberculosis; non-granulomatous - cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis, connective tissue disorders, occupational lung fibrosis. Part 5 Pulmonary eosinophilia: bronchopulmonary aspergillosis; connective tissue disorders; Loeffler's syndrome. Part 6 Infections of the respiratory tract: bacterial; viral pneumonia; fungal; atypical pneumonia. Part 7 Tuberculosis. Part 8 Bronchial neoplasm: including metastatic and non-metastatic complications. Part 9 Occupational lung disease. Part 10 Drug toxicity and the lung. Part 11 Diseases of the pleura and chest wall: pleural diseases - pneumothorax, pleural malignancy; diseases of the chest wall. Part 12 Pulmonary vascular disease: primary pulmonary hypertension; secondary pulmonary hypertension - cor pulmonale, pulmonary embolic disease; pulmonary haemosiderosis; Goodpasture's syndrome; adult respiratory distress syndrome. Appendix 1: mediastinal lesions. Appendix 2 Respiratory function tests: airway function; lung volumes; gas transfer; compliance. Appendix 3: normal lung.