Chronic Obstructive Lung Diseases

Norbert F. Voelkel, MD Professor of Medicine, Director, Victoria Johnson Center for Emphysema Research Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Medicine Virginia. William MacNee, MBChB, MD, FRCPC, FRCPE Professor of Respiratory and Environmental Medicine Honorary Consultant Physician Patient Services Director, Respiratory Medicine University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place Edinburgh, Scotland.

1: Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema: Historical Overview
2: Lung Growth and Development
3: The Airway Epithelium
4: Epidemiology of COPD
5: Genetic Susceptibility and Development of Emphysema
6: Pediatric Obstructive Disease
7: Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
8: Pathobiology of Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema
9: Inflammation in the Pathogenesis of COPD
10: COPD - The Dutch Hypothesis
11: Environmental Factors of COPD
12: Hypersecretion
13: Surfactant and Small Airway Diseases
14: Diffuse Parenchymal Interstitial Lung in Small Airways
15: Other Large Airway Disease which Limit Airflow
16: Bacterial Infections and COPD
17: Viral Infections and COPD
18: Animal Models of Emphysema
19: The Physiology and Lung Function Analysis of Chronic Obstructive Airway Diseases
20: Imaging, Chest X-Ray, CT Scanning of Chronic Obstructive Lung Diseases
21: Bronchoscopy and Bronchography of Acute and Chronic Bronchitis
22: Ventilation/Perfusion Mismatch in COPD
23: Pulmonary Hypertension and Cor Pulmonale in COPD
24: The Clinical Management of Patients with COPD
25: Pharmacotherapy of COPD
26: Smoking Cessation
27: Respiratory Muscles in COPD
28: The "Acute Exacerbation" of COPD
29: COPD: A Wasting Disease
30: Surgical Treatment and Lung Transplantation in COPD
31: From COPD to Lung Cancer