Hardcover: 360 pages
Publisher: Old City Publishing (December 1, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1904097464
ISBN-13: 978-1904097464

Product Description
Paediatric medecine is a growing and continuously changing field with an increasing impact for many adult respiratory diseases. With increasing pollution and a particular susceptibility of children to these environmental toxins, as well as changing lifestyles in the Western world, lung problems in children have become a major health issue. This monograph from the Journal of Respiratory Emergencies focuses on the most recent fundamental dvelopments in the field, current models and concepts of the pathological mechanisms, the related diseases and the treatment strategies.

Contents:

• Preface
• Epidemiology of respiratory diseases in infants and children
• Lung development from infancy to adulthood
• Assessing lung growth and function in infants and young children
• Remodelling in paediatric respiratory disease and impact on growth and development
• Immunology and defence mechanism of the developing lung
• Allergy and the paediatric lung during development
• Impact of genetic factors on lung development in health and disease
• Geneenvironment interaction and respiratory disease in children
• Clinically relevant early functional and diagnostic markers of lung disease in children
• Clinically relevant early functional and diagnostic markers of lung disease in the paediatric intensive care unit
• Wheezing disorders in young children: one disease or several phenotypes?
• Bronchiolitis in infants and children
• Asthma in school-aged children and adolescents
• Bronchopulmonary dysplasia: current models and concepts
• Cystic fibrosis
• Current issues in the basic mechanisms, pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of primary ciliary dyskinesia
• Adipositas in infants and children: a new disease on the horizon
• New approaches to the understanding of complex chronic lung diseases