Pulmonary Involvement in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, by Andrea Doria, Paolo Pauletto, Ronald Asherson

By Andrea Doria, Paolo Pauletto, Ronald Asherson

During this e-book is located the data necessary to diagnosing, dealing with and treating the lung problems of connective tissue ailments. it is a notoriously tough sector, which maintains to puzzle clinicians, even though those issues are more and more common (as due to the longer survival in connective tissue disease). In separate chapters, the main connective tissue ailments are reviewed, with particular dialogue of quite a few lung abnormalities, together with pleural sickness, parenchymal lung disorder and pulmonary vascular illness. There also are important overviews of lung histological and CT appearances in those problems, and a deeply insightful bankruptcy on drug-induced lung ailment in connective tissue illness. The emphasis during this booklet is on accuracy of review and the development of a logical administration plan, according to affliction severity and intrinsic progressiveness.

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