Pleural Disease, Second Edition (Lung Biology in Health and Disease)

Updated to reflect the latest scientific advances and technologies in the diagnosis and treatment of pleural diseases, this new Second Edition explores the structure and function of these diseases and malignancies, from tuberculosis and asbestos to pleurisy and pneumothorax. Edited by leading international authorities in pulmonary medicine, this comprehensive guide is an invaluable resource for pulmonologists, radiologists, and critical care physicians. Pleural Disease, Second Edition highlights: molecular and diagnostic approaches interventional applications, including pleural thoracentesis and closed biopsy, chest tube insertion, pleural lavage, medical thoracoscopy, and VATS biomarkers and proteomics translational medicine approaches, new treatment methodologies, and clinical manifestations various diagnostic tests and the importance of clinical evaluation in the differential diagnosis of a pleural effusion new surgical and non-surgical techniques to identify and diagnose pleural diseases, including: medical thoracoscopy, pleural lavage, intrapleural fibrinolytics, image-guided small bore catheters, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), pleuroperitoneal shunt, and extrapleural pneumonectomy

Updated to reflect the latest scientific advances and technologies in the diagnosis and treatment of pleural diseases, this new Second Edition explores the structure and function of these diseases and malignancies, from tuberculosis and asbestos to pleurisy and pneumothorax. Edited by leading international authorities in pulmonary medicine, this comprehensive guide is an invaluable resource for pulmonologists, radiologists, and critical care physicians.

Pleural Disease, Second Edition highlights:

• molecular and diagnostic approaches
• interventional applications, including pleural thoracentesis and closed biopsy, chest tube insertion, pleural lavage, medical thoracoscopy, and VATS
• biomarkers and proteomics
• translational medicine approaches, new treatment methodologies, and clinical manifestations
• various diagnostic tests and the importance of clinical evaluation in the differential diagnosis of a pleural effusion
• new surgical and non-surgical techniques to identify and diagnose pleural diseases, including: medical thoracoscopy, pleural lavage, intrapleural fibrinolytics, image-guided
• small bore catheters, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), pleuroperitoneal shunt, and extrapleural pneumonectomy

Introduction 8 Preface 10 Contributors 12 Contents 18 Chapter 1 22 Chapter 2 30 Chapter 3 39 Chapter 4 51 Chapter 5 86 Chapter 6 95 Chapter 7 113 Chapter 8 129 Chapter 9 140 Chapter 10 166 Chapter 11 186 Chapter 12 203 Chapter 13 219 Chapter 14 238 Chapter 15 253 Chapter 16 273 Chapter 17 288 Chapter 18 329 Chapter 19 360 Chapter 20 366 Chapter 21 378 Chapter 22 388 Chapter 23 410 Chapter 24 423 Chapter 25 448 Chapter 26 469 Chapter 27 489 Chapter 28 513 Chapter 29 525 Chapter 30 546 Chapter 31 570 Chapter 32 595 Chapter 33 614 Chapter 34 634 Chapter 35 648 Chapter 36 665 Chapter 37 679 Chapter 38 703 Chapter 39 722 Chapter 40 741 Chapter 41 754 Chapter 42 766 Chapter 43 777 Chapter 44 812 Chapter 45 825 Index 842 1420077384,9781420077384 The Second Edition of Pleural Disease delivers essential updates on frequent, but often neglected, diseases of everyday clinical practice. This new edition features the current molecular approaches, interventional applications, biomarkers, proteomics, translational medicine, pleural malignancies, new diagnostic approaches, clinical manifestations, and treatment methodologies of different types of pleural diseases