COPD Clinical Perspectives

Overview & Synopsis

This book brings together an
international group of experts in COPD to provide in depth reviews of clinical
perspectives into COPD. Topics range from the diagnosis of airflow limitation by
spirometry, distinguishing COPD from another common obstructive lung disease,
asthma, alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency and opportunities to diagnose this most
common hereditary cause of COPD and as a paradigm for the development of novel
therapeutics, the overlap syndrome - the concurrence of two epidemic disorders:
COPD and obstructive sleep apnea, and pulmonary rehabilitation, one of the most
effective treatments for COPD.