Pulmonary Dysfunction and Disease

✍ Scribed by Mieczyslaw Pokorski (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 101
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 934
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Lung ventilation is driven by a complex neural regulatory network, and apart from conditions typically observed during a disease state, it is sensitive to functional dysregulation. This book focuses on a wide variety of pulmonary topics including inflammation, infection, cancerogenesis, hypoxia, and stress. The chapters deal with the pathophysiologic background of processes and mechanisms whereby abnormal or undesired conditions develop and progress. The exemplary topics concern the genotyping of mutations involved in the development of lung cancer, which helps target molecular anticancer therapy, or the advances in computed tomography technology employed in pulmonary diagnostics. Functional cardio-respiratory changes associated with a particular disease or resulting from disease, or dysautonomic state due to affective disorder or hypokinesia of spaceflight microgravity also are tackled. The book is intended for medical researchers and clinicians, notably pulmonologists, internists, family doctors, and all interested in this exciting area of science.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Adiponectin and Mortality in Smokers and Non-Smokers of the Ludwigshafen Risk and Cardiovascular Health (LURIC) Study....Pages 1-8
Heart Rate Variability and Arrhythmic Burden in Pulmonary Hypertension....Pages 9-22
Cardiac Vagal Control and Depressive Symptoms in Response to Negative Emotional Stress....Pages 23-30
Effect of Simulated Microgravity and Lunar Gravity on Human Inspiratory Muscle Function: ‘Selena-T’ 2015 Study....Pages 31-40
Airway Evaluation with Multidetector Computed Tomography Post-Processing Methods in Asthmatic Patients....Pages 41-47
Genotyping of EGFR Mutations from Bronchial Cytological Specimens in Slovakian Lung Cancer Patients....Pages 49-61
Antiinflammatory Effect of N-Acetylcysteine Combined with Exogenous Surfactant in Meconium-Induced Lung Injury....Pages 63-75
Pertussis: History of the Disease and Current Prevention Failure....Pages 77-82
Awareness of Influenza and Attitude Toward Influenza Vaccination Among Medical Students....Pages 83-88
Pathogens Causing Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Outpatients....Pages 89-93
Back Matter....Pages 95-96

✦ Subjects

Pneumology/Respiratory System;Gene Function;Bacteriology