Molecular Basis of Pulmonary Disease Insights from Rare Lung Disorders /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: McCormack, Francis X. (Editor), Panos, Ralph J. (Editor), Trapnell, Bruce C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2010.
• Series: Respiratory Medicine
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pneumology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-384-4

The study of rare lung disorders enhances our understanding of common pulmonary diseases such as fibrosis and emphysema. Molecular Basis of Pulmonary Disease: Insights from Rare Lung Disorders brings together a panel of distinguished clinicians and molecular scientists who are experts in a range of...

Table of Contents:

• A Clinical Approach to Rare Lung Diseases
• Clinical Trials for Rare Lung Diseases
• Idiopathic and Familial Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
• Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
• Autoimmune Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
• Mutations in Surfactant Protein C and Interstitial Lung Disease
• Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
• Hermansky Pudlak Syndrome
• Alpha One Antitrypsin Deficiency
• The Marfan Syndrome
• Surfactant Deficiency Disorders SP-B and ABCA3
• Pulmonary Capillary Hemangiomatosis
• Goodpastures Syndrome
• Primary Ciliary Diskinesia
• Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis
• Sarcoidosis
• Scleroderma Lung Disease.