Asthma: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Management - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0120790270 ISBN 13: 9780120790272

Casa editrice: Academic Pr, 1998

Riassunto

Now available in its Third Edition, Asthma: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Management has becomethe reference text in asthma. This highly successful text sheds new light on the basic physiological and molecular mechanisms of asthma, how current treatments work, and how best to apply the latest knowledge to control this important disease. The Third Edition has undergone radical revision and includes several new chapters. It retains the virtues of the previous volumes by bringing together all of the recent research findings by internationally recognized experts on the causative mechanisms of asthma, including in-depth clinical aspects and therapy. The book presents an integrated approach toward the treatment of this disease with new concepts, changes in asthma management, and the development of new therapeutic agents.Asthma provides extensive references for researchers and clinicians who need to keep abreast of recent developments in this rapidly expanding field.

Key Features
* Comprehensive coverage of both basic science and clinical aspects of asthma
* Extensively referenced throughout

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Informazioni sugli autori

Peter Barnes is Professor of Thoracic Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Head of Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College and Honorary Consultant Physician at Royal Brompton Hospital, London. He qualified at Cambridge and Oxford Universities was appointed to his present post in 1987. He has published over 1000 peer-review papers on asthma, COPD and related topics and has edited over 40 books. He is also amongst the top 50 most highly cited researchers in the world and has been the most highly cited clinical scientist in the UK and the most highly cited respiratory researcher in the world over the last 20 years. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007, the first respiratory researcher for over 150 years. He is currently a member of the Scientific Committee of the WHO/NIH global guidelines on asthma (GINA) and COPD (GOLD). He also serves on the Editorial Board of over 30 journals and is currently an Associate Editor of Chest and respiratory Editor of PLoS Medicine. He has given several prestigious lectures, including the Amberson Lecture at the American Thoracic Society and the Sadoul Lecture at the European Respiratory Society.

Neil Thomson is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Glasgow, Head of Respiratory Medicine within the Division of Immunology, Infection & Inflammation and Honorary Consultant at Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow. He graduated from the University of Glasgow and undertook postgraduate training in Glasgow, London and McMaster University, Canada. He is a former member of the Committee for Safety of Medicine and former Chair of the Scientific Committee of the British Lung Foundation. He has co-edited several textbooks on asthma and COPD and published over 150 peer-reviewed papers on asthma. His current research interests include corticosteroid insensitivity in smokers with asthma, biomarkers in asthma and COPD and assessment of novel treatments for asthma.

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Asthma continues to be a major health problem throughout the world and affects over 5% of the population in industrialised countries. Knowledge about asthma has continued to advance very rapidly, with new concepts, changes in asthma management and the development of new therapeutic agents. There is an increasing need to understand how current treatment for asthma works and how best to apply it to control this important disease.
This timely Third Edition of Asthma, Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Management edited by Barnes, Rodger and Thomson, has undergone radical revision and includes several new chapters. It brings together all the recent information on basic mechanisms of asthma and also covers in depth clinical aspects and therapy. This integrated approach should appeal to researchers and also clinicians who need to keep abreast of recent developments in this rapidly expanding field.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Academic Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0120790270
• ISBN 13: 9780120790272
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 942
• Redattore: Barnes Peter J., Rodger Ian W., Thomson Neil C.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile