Respiratory Medicine

R Fergusson, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK; A Hill, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; N Hirani, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; P Reid, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK; R Riah, Department of Sleep Medicine, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

PART I: Asthma; 1. Epidemiology and disease causation; 2. Clinical expression of asthma; 3. Management of asthma; PART II: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); 4. Exacerbations of COPD and their management; 5. COPD as a systemic disease; PART III: Respiratory infections; 6. Tuberculosis; 7. Community acquired pneumonia; 8. Ventilator associated pneumonia; PART IV: Thoracic Malignancy; 9. Diagnosis and staging techniques of lung cancer; 10. Treatment of lung cancer; PART V: Obstructive sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome; 11. Diagnosis; 12. Emerging concepts linking OSAHS with vascular endothelial dysfunction; 13. Does sleep apnoea therapy improve sleep apnoea comorbidities; PART VI: Pulmonary Fibrosis; Recent developments in diagnosis and management of pulmonary fibrosis; Acronyms/ abbreviations; Index of papers reviewed; General Index.