Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease : A Systemic Inflammatory Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nakamura, Hiroyuki (Editor), Aoshiba, Kazutetsu (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Respiratory Disease Series: Diagnostic Tools and Disease Managements,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9789811008399
• ISSN: 2509-5552
• DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-0839-9
• Physical Description: XI, 352 p. 64 illus., 27 illus. in color. online resource.

This book considers chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) not as a simple inflammation of the lung but as a systemic inflammatory disease. Beginning with epidemiological studies, etiology, diagnosis and treatment, it elaborates further, illustrating some comorbidities and associations with ot...