Respiratory medicine : an Asian perspective

Contents Foreword ix Preface xi Contributors xiii Part I. Airway Diseases 1 1. Asthma Epidemiology 3 Gary W K Wong and Moira Chan-Yeung 2. Asthma Management 25 Mary Ip and Moira Chan-Yeung 3. Bronchiectasis 43 Kenneth Tsang, Clara Ooi and Mary Ip 4. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Epidemiology 61 Wan Cheng Tan 5. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Pharmacological Treatment 73 Wan Cheng Tan 6. Non-invasive Mechanical Ventilation in COPD 83 Rong Chang Chen and Nan Shan Zhong 7. Pulmonary Rehabilitation 93 Teresita de Guia and Percival Punzal vi Contents 8. Lung Volume Reduction Surgery 103 Wataru Hida , Yoshimochi Kurokawa and Hajime Kurosawa 9. Diffuse Panbronchiolitis 123 Young Whan Kim and Yukihiko Sugiyama 10. Obstructive Sleep Apnea 135 Mary Ip and C G Guilleminault Part II. Infections 159 11. Community Acquired Pneumonia x 161 Amita V Doshi and Zarir F Udwadia 12. AIDS and the Lungs 179 Cham Kiatboonsri and Chaicharn Pothirat 13. Influenza 209 Joseph S M Peiris and Kwok Yung Yuen 14. Tropical Infections and the Lungs 223 Chaicharn Pothirat and Suchai Charoenratanakul 15. Tuberculosis: Epidemiology and Surveillance 259 Donald Enarson, Li Xing Zhang and Cheuk Ming Tarn 16. Tuberculosis: Clinical Features in Adults 273 S K Jindal and V K Vijayan 17. Tuberculosis: Diagnosis and Drug Treatment 283 Wing Wai Yew 18. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome 307 Wah Kit Lam, Kenneth Tsang, Clara Ooi, Mary Ip and Moira Chan-Yeung Part III. Environmental and Occupational Lung Diseases 325 19. Air Pollution and Lung Health 327 Michael Brauer and Moira Chan-Yeung 20. Smoking and Lung Health 347 Somchai Bovornkitti, Wah Kit Lam and Moira Chan-Yeung 21. Occupational Airway Diseases 365 Moira Chan-Yeung and Tze Pin Ng Contents vh 22. Pneumoconiosis 379 Moria Chan-Yeung and Tze Pin Ng Part IV. Neoplasms 401 23. Lung Cancer: Epidemiology and Risk Factors 403 Wah Kit Lam and Mei Lin Liao 24. Lung Cancer: Diagnosis and Staging 423 Wah Kit Lam and Pan Chyr Yang 25. Lung Cancer: Treatment 437 Reury-Perng Perng and Yuh Min Chen Part V. Procedures 455 26. Lung Transplantation 457 Pantpis Sakornpant and Shui Wah Chiu 27. Minimal Access Thoracic Surgery 467 Anthony P C Yim, C Peter Clarke and Hui Ping Liu 28. Pulmonary Function Testing in Asians 477 Jin Ping Zheng and Nan Shan Zhong Index