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ASTHMA AND COPD
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Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Management
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Second Edition
Edited By
Peter Barnes, Imperial College, London, UK
Jeffrey Drazen, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Stephen Rennard, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA
Neil Thomson, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, Scotland
Reviews
"...textbooks, such as the one discussed here, are all essential in shaping a necessary way forward to fight chronic respiratory diseases
worldwide...At first it was a surprise to see that this impressive textbook covered both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD) in one volume. Asthma and COPD: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Management is edited and written by prominent individuals who have
done everything possible in the past to convey the message that asthma and COPD are two different diseases: that they are characterised
by different risk factors; have a different pathophysiology; are characterised by clinical phenotypes that are distinctly different;
require different therapeutic strategies; and probably pose very different challenges to the health-care system. Yet in this textbook
they now provide a truly novel approach towards our understanding and perception of asthma and COPD...the combined approach set out in
this book towards asthma and COPD is not so much the Dutch hypothesis revisited, rather it is a more than sensible approach to understanding
the nature and the challenges of chronic respiratory diseases in general.
Asthma and COPD provides a superb synthesis of the most
up-to-date knowledge on obstructive airways diseases by leading experts in the field...The description of basic mechanisms is a particularly
strong feature, but the reader also finds excellent chapters on the pathogenic mechanisms of asthma and COPD, a description of risk factors
and triggers, and a clinically useful description of the clinical assessment of these frequent conditions...this textbook is a joy to
browse through and to read; it is very well illustrated, and the tabulated material is truly educational...I hope that this book will
become one of the major reference sources for information on asthma and COPD and that it might have the potential to serve a much wider
medical community than respiratory textbooks usually do."
--Klaus F. Rabe, The Lancet
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