Diseases of the Central Airways A Clinical Guide
This book explores the non-interventional aspects of interventional pulmonology, focusing on diseases of the central airways. As the field of bronchology and interventional pulmonology expands, newer conditions involving the central airways are being reco
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Atul C. Mehta Prasoon Jain Thomas R. Gildea Editors
Diseases of the Central Airways A Clinical Guide
Respiratory Medicine Series editor Sharon I.S. Rounds, Providence, RI, USA
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Atul C. Mehta Prasoon Jain Thomas R. Gildea •
Editors
Diseases of the Central Airways A Clinical Guide
Editors Atul C. Mehta, MD, FACP, FCCP Professor of Medicine Lerner College of Medicine Buoncore Family Endowed Chair in Lung Transplantation Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH USA
Thomas R. Gildea, MD, MS, FCCP, FACP Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care Medicine and Transplant Center Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH USA
Prasoon Jain, MBBS, MD, FCCP Pulmonary and Critical Care Louis A Johnson VA Medical Center Clarksburg, WV USA
ISSN 2197-7372 Respiratory Medicine ISBN 978-3-319-29828-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-29830-6
ISSN 2197-7380
(electronic)
ISBN 978-3-319-29830-6
(eBook)
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To my teachers who taught me how to hold the bronchoscope —Atul C. Mehta
To my mother and father —Prasoon Jain
To my patients —Thomas R. Gildea
Foreword
Open up one of the major textbooks of pulmonary medicine, and it readily becomes apparent that the central airways of the lung garner little attention beyond an obligatory chapter. Comprised of the trachea and proximal bronchi, the central airways are viewed largely as a conduit for airflow. As such, they tend to become clinically relevant when there is critical narrowing, as occurs in the setting of neoplastic disease or iatrogenic strictures from prior endotracheal or tracheostomy tubes. Those most familiar with the central airways are members of t
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