This third edition of Gershwin and Halpern's classic text,
Bronchial Asthma, has been completely rewritten and expanded to
include, from a variety of disciplines, the latest techniques and
developments in the clinical diagnosis and treatment of asthma.
With its new patient-oriented chapters on living with asthma, the
book will empower the internist, the family practitioner, and the
specialist in their struggle to reverse the current trend of
increasing asthma mortality and to improve the quality of life of
their patients and their families. The editors have selected
authoritative contributors to Bronchial Asthma, organizing it into
four comprehensive parts: I. Definitions and Host Responses to
Bronchospasm defines asthma by analyzing its epidemiology,
pathogenesis, and genetic roots, and illuminates the roles of mast
cells and eosinophils. Chapters also cover the use of the pulmonary
function laboratory and the differential diagnosis of asthma in
children and adults. II. Patient Management introduces the latest
thinking and techniques about treatment and management of patients,
including allergic evaluation, radiological treatment, the role of
immunotherapy, the differential management of status asthmaticus,
the management of pregnant asthmatics, and an evaluation of
unconventional therapies. III. Special Clinical Problems explores
respiratory tract infections, the roles of anti-inflammatory
agents, food additives, air pollution, aspergillosis, and
occupational asthma. Four new chapters analyze exercise-induced
asthma, asthma's relationship with chronic sinus disease, and the
cross-cultural treatment of asthma in Europe and Japan. IV. Living
with Asthma, an entirely new section, examines asthma in school
children, athletes and asthma, legal issues for asthmatics, the
psychology of asthma, and the use of prospective disease
management.
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