Drugs for the Treatment of Respiratory Diseases - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521773210 ISBN 13: 9780521773218

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Millions of people are affected by these diseases, and the re-emergence of tuberculosis and increase in asthma in certain populations underline the importance of finding effective treatments. The demographice make this a critical time to identify novel strategies to prevent and treat these increasingly common diseases. The volume surveys and evaluates the drug treatments available for the main categories of lung diseases, including asthma, tuberculosis, smoking disorders, lung cancer, and respiratory infections.

About this title

Book Description:

This comprehensive account of drug treatment of respiratory diseases provides a timely reminder that this group of diseases remains a considerable health burden. The volume surveys and evaluates the drug treatments available for the main categories of lung diseases including asthma, tuberculosis, smoking disorders such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, and respiratory infections. This publication, the first single comprehensive volume to survey current and novel drug treatments for these diseases, is bound to establish itself as an essential source of reference respiratory physicians, clinicians and clinical pharmacologists.

Review:

"...a welcome addition to any pulmonologist's reference library." Respiratory Care

"There are very few similar textbooks on this topic that provide this degree of depth and a current view of drug therapy of respiratory diseases...this is a very good text, most appropriate for sophisticated clinicians and researchers who seek to achieve great depth in their understanding of the basic and clinical pharmacology of drugs used in the treatment of respiratory diseases." Annals of Pharmacotherapy

"[T]his book is clearly written and produced and unusually well illustrated...extremely useful..." Pharmaceutical Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0521773210
• ISBN 13: 9780521773218
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 612
• Editor: Spina Domenico, Page Clive P., Metzger William J., O'Connor Brian J.