
- 372 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Respiratory disorders in infants and children are challenging problems for every clinician involved in the management of these patients. This book summarises recent advances in paediatric pulmonology. The scholarly contributions of the distinguished contributors represent a careful and comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge in pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Guest editors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Epidemiology of respiratory diseases in infants and children
- Chapter 2 - Lung development from infancy to adulthood
- Chapter 3 - Assessing lung growth and function in infants and young children
- Chapter 4 - Remodelling in paediatric respiratory disease and impact on growth and development
- Chapter 5 - Immunology and defence mechanism of the developing lung
- Chapter 6 - Allergy and the paediatric lung during development
- Chapter 7 - Impact of genetic factors on lung development in health and disease
- Chapter 8 - Gene-environment interaction and respiratory disease in children
- Chapter 9 - Clinically relevant early functional and diagnostic markers of lung disease in children
- Chapter 10 - Clinically relevant early functional and diagnostic markers of lung disease in the paediatric intensive care unit
- Chapter 11 - Wheezing disorders in young children: one disease or several phenotypes?
- Chapter 12 - Bronchiolitis in infants and children
- Chapter 13 - Asthma in school-aged children and adolescents
- Chapter 14 - Bronchopulmonary dysplasia: current models and concepts
- Chapter 15 - Cystic fibrosis
- Chapter 16 - Current issues in the basic mechanisms, pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of primary ciliary dyskinesia
- Chapter 17 - Adipositas in infants and children: a new disease on the horizon
- Chapter 18 - New approaches to the understanding of complex chronic lung diseases
- Previously published
- Instructions to authors