Inherited Diseases of the Lung

This useful volume reviews the inherited diseases that clearly affect the lungs and are capable of initiating chronic lung disease in adult patients. Stresses the common characteristics of those inherited lung diseases that should raise suspicion, to alert the physician to the earliest possible diagnosis. Offers a basic overview of the chemical and physical mechanisms of inheritance; discusses the association of three inherited lung diseases with male sterility; reviews the immotile cilia syndrome, cystic fibrosis, and Young's syndrome; more.