Pulmonary Diseases, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America

1st Edition, Volume 106-6 - October 28, 2022
Editor: Daniel M. Goodenberger
Language: English
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In this issue of Medical Clinics, guest editor Daniel M. Goodenberger brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Pulmonary Diseases.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
CME Accreditation Page
Forthcoming Issues
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Testing and Treating Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection
Key points
Introduction
Future perspectives
Care of the Seriously Ill Patient with SARS-CoV-2
Key points
Introduction
Supportive care
COVID-19–specific therapies
Critical shortages
Complications
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosure
The Role of Long-Term Noninvasive Ventilation in Chronic Stable Hypercapnic Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Key points
Introduction
Nature of the problem
A brief description of how noninvasive ventilation works
Current clinical practice guidelines
Common clinical questions
Summary
Clinics care points
Funding acknowledgment
Advances in Evaluation and Treatment of Severe Asthma (Part One)
Key points
Definition
Differential diagnosis
Approach to the patient with difficult-to-control asthma
“Asthma plus”
Diagnostic testing in severe, refractory asthma
Summary
Clinics care points
Advances in Evaluation and Treatment of Severe Asthma (Part Two)
Key points
Conventional drug therapies
Targeted monoclonal antibodies
Protection against life-threatening asthma attacks
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosure
Cystic Fibrosis: Highly Effective Targeted Therapeutics and the Impact on Sex and Racial Disparities
Key points
Introduction
Pathophysiology and epidemiology of cystic fibrosis
Therapeutic advances in cystic fibrosis
Factors known to affect survival in cystic fibrosis
Racial and ethnic disparities in people with cystic fibrosis
Summary and future care considerations in people with cystic fibrosis
Clinics care points
Disclosure
Advances in Surgical and Mechanical Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Key points
Introduction
Rationale for mechanical or surgical intervention in severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Mechanical management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Surgical treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Summary
Clinics care points
Disparities in Disease Burden and Treatment of Patients Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Key points
Introduction
Asthma
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Summary
Clinics care points
Lung Cancer Screening
Key points
Introduction
Evidence base for lung cancer screening
Program structure
Who to screen
Shared decision-making
Performing and reporting low-dose computed tomography
Management of screen-detected lung nodules
Non-lung nodule findings
Integration of smoking-cessation interventions
Cleveland clinic lung cancer screening program
Clinics care points
Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis: An Updated Diagnostic Guide for Internists
Key points
Introduction
Definitions and terminology
Classification
Clinical presentation
Epidemiology
Pathophysiology
Radiographic presentation
Adjunctive Testing
Histopathology
Diagnostic steps
Summary
Clinics care points
Initiating Pharmacologic Treatment in Tobacco-Dependent Adults
Key points
Introduction
The biology of nicotine addiction
Pharmacotherapy for nicotine addiction and tobacco dependence
Considerations in specific populations
Future directions
Summary
Clinics care points
Electronic Cigarette Use, Misuse, and Harm
Key points
Introduction
Health effects of e-cigarettes
Is there a role for e-cigarettes to promote smoking cessation?
Discussion
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosure
Marijuana and the Lung: Evolving Understandings
Key points
Introduction
Effects of short-term and long-term marijuana smoking on lung function
Respiratory symptoms in marijuana smokers
Marijuana and lung cancer
Emphysematous bullae, barotrauma (pneumothorax), and interstitial lung disease in marijuana smokers?
Medicinal use and nonpulmonary adverse effects of marijuana
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosure
The Survival of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign
Key points
Introduction
Historical perspective of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign
The Surviving Sepsis Campaign: a problematic protocol
What lies beyond the Surviving Sepsis Campaign treatment bundles?
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosure

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