Drawing on the expertise of a stellar team of renowned experts in the field, this updated pocket reference provides concise coverage of all aspects of pulmonary disorders, including pathophysiology, differential diagnoses, and the latest evidence-based treatments for pulmonary illness.

1. Radiographic evaluation of lung disease -- 2. Radioisotopic techniques -- 3. Pulmonary function testing -- 4. Exercise -- 5. Evaluation of arterial blood gases and acid-base homeostasis -- 6. Thoracic ultrasound uses in pulmonary medicine -- 7. Interventional pulmonology : advanced diagnostic procedures -- 8. Preoperative pulmonary evaluation -- 9. Pharmacotherapy -- 10. Pulmonary rehabilitation -- 11. Interventional pulmonology therapeutic procedures -- 12. Pulmonary therapeutics -- 13. Tobacco control -- 14. Disaster management by the pulmonologist -- 15. Mechanical ventilation : devices and methods -- 16. Mechanical ventilation : complications and discontinuation -- 17. Protocol-driven care in respiratory therapy -- 18. Techniques for clinical quality improvement and error reduction techniques -- 19. Disability and medicolegal evaluation -- 20. Air travel and high-altitude medicine -- 21. Dyspnea -- 22. Approach to pulmonary vascular disease -- 23. Chronic cough -- 24. Pleural effusion -- 25. Hemoptysis -- 26. Complications of pulmonary resections -- 27. Pneumothorax -- 28. Aspiration -- 29. The lung in pregnancy -- 30. Lung disease in the immunocompromised patient -- 31. The lung in drug abuse -- 32. Pneumonia : general considerations -- 33. Airway obstruction -- 34. Acute hypercapnic respiratory failure -- 35. Bronchiectasis -- 36. The difficult airway -- 37. Occupational-environmental lung disease -- 38. Solitary pulmonary nodule -- 39. Mediastinal masses -- 40. Eosinophilic lung disease -- 41. Pneumococcal pneumonia -- 42. Staphylococcal and streptococcal pneumonias -- 43. Haemophilus influenzae infections -- 44. Klebsiella pneumonia -- 45. Other gram-negative pneumonias : pseudomonas aeruginosa, escherichia coli, proteus, serratia, enterobacter, and acinetobacter -- 46. Anaerobic lung infections -- 47. Atypical pneumonias : mycoplasma, chlamydophila (chlamydia), Q fever, and legionella -- 48. Viral pneumonia -- 49. Tuberculosis : epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of latent infection -- 50. Tuberculosis : clinical manifestations and diagnosis of disease -- 51. Tuberculosis : treatment of disease -- 52. Nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary infections -- 53. Coccidioidomycosis -- 54. Histoplasmosis -- 55. Blastomycosis -- 56. Aspergillus lung disease -- 57. Nocardiosis and actinomycosis -- 58. Cryptococcosis -- 59. Nematode and trematode diseases of the lung -- 60. Amebiasis and echinococcal diseases of the lung -- 61. Pulmonary infections and complications in HIV-infected patients -- 62. Hospital-acquired pneumonia -- 63. Asthma -- 64. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease : definition and epidemiology -- 65. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease : clinical and laboratory manifestations, pathophysiology, and prognosis -- 66. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease : management -- 67. The acute respiratory distress syndrome -- 68. Thromboembolic disease : epidemiology, natural history, and diagnosis -- 69. Thromboembolic disease : prophylaxis -- 70. Thromboembolic disease : therapy -- 71. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension -- 72. Unusual forms of embolism -- 73. Pulmonary hypertension : pathogenesis and etiology -- 74. Pulmonary hypertension : diagnosis and treatment -- 75. Lung transplantation -- 76. Pulmonary manifestations of sickle cell disease -- 77. Cystic fibrosis -- 78. Disorders of the thoracic spine -- 79. Disorders of the diaphragm -- 80. Neuromuscular diseases and spinal cord injury -- 81. Sleep apnea, alveolar hypoventilation, and obesity-hypoventilation -- 82. Silicosis -- 83. Coal workers' pneumoconiosis -- 84. Asbestos-related disease -- 85. Work-related asthma -- 86. Pulmonary injury in burn patients -- 87. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis -- 88. Drowning and diving accidents -- 89. Radiation-induced lung disease -- 90. Sarcoidosis -- 91. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (wegener granulomatosis) -- 92. Goodpasture syndrome -- 93. Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis -- 94. Idiopathic interstitial pneumonias -- 95. Pulmonary manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis -- 96. The lungs in systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, polymyositis, dermatomyositis, and mixed connective tissue disease -- 97. Pulmonary langerhans cell histiocytosis -- 98. Neurofibromatosis, lymphangioleiomyomatosis, and tuberous sclerosis -- 99. Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis -- 100. Bronchial carcinoids and benign neoplasms of the lung -- 101. Lung cancer : diagnosis, staging, and prognosis -- 102. Lung cancer : classification, epidemiology, and screening -- 103. Lung cancer : treatment -- 104. Extrathoracic and endocrine manifestations of lung cancer -- 105. Neoplastic disease of the pleura.