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Title

Surfactant therapy for lung disease / edited by Bengt Robertson, H. William Taeusch.

Publication

New York : M. Dekker, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Robertson, Bengt, 1935-
• Taeusch, H. William

Description

xxvi, 686 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Lung biology in health and disease ; v. 84

Uniform Title

Lung biology in health and disease ; v. 84.

Subjects

• Pulmonary surfactant > Therapeutic use
• Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult > therapy
• Lung Diseases > therapy
• Respiratory distress syndrome > Chemotherapy
• Pulmonary Surfactants > therapeutic use
• Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult > physiopathology
• Pulmonary Surfactants > physiology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction / Claude Lenfant -- Foreword / Mary Ellen Avery and John A. Clements -- 1. Biophysical Aspects in the Design of a Therapeutic Surfactant / Samuel Schurch and Hans Bachofen -- 2. Surfactant and Lung Fluid Balance / David P. Carlton and Richard D. Bland -- 3. Biosynthesis, Secretion, and Recycling of Surfactant Components / Joseph J. Batenberg -- 4. Pulmonary Surfactant and Lung Defense: Interactions of Surfactant Proteins with Phagocytic Cells and Pathogens / J. Freek van Iwaarden and Lambert M. G. van Golde -- 5. Genetics of Neonatal Lung Disease in Relation to the Surfactant Protein Genes / Joanna Floros and Anne M. Karinch -- 6. A Stable Microbubble Test for Antenatal and Early Neonatal Diagnosis of Surfactant Deficiency / Shoichi Chida -- 7. Lung Mechanics in Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Robert B. Cotton and Torsten Olsson -- 8. Radiological Diagnosis of Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Related Disorders / William H. Northway, Jr. --
• 9. The Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Pathophysiological Concepts Related to the Pulmonary Surfactant System / Ulrich Pison, Johannes C. Bock, Sylvia Pietschmann, Siegfried Veit and Klaus Slama -- 10. Evaluation of Lung Permeability in Neonatal and Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Per Wollmer, Bjorn Jonson and Burkhard Lachmann -- 11. Essential and Nonessential Constituents of Exogenous Surfactants / Pinar Boncuk-Dayanikli and H. William Taeusch -- 12. Experimental Models for Evaluation of Exogenous Surfactants / Bengt Robertson -- 13. Resistance to Surfactant Inactivation / Andreas Gunther and Werner Seeger -- 14. Antigenicity of Surfactant Proteins A, B, and C / Timothy E. Weaver and Jeffrey A. Whitsett -- 15. Techniques for Administering Surfactant / Alan H. Jobe -- 16. Biochemical Prediction of Response to Surfactant Therapy in the Newborn Infant / Mikko Hallman, Jack Sills, Kristina Bry and T. Allen Merritt --
• 17. Prediction of Mechanical Responses to Surfactant Therapy / Jon Goerke -- 18. Augmentation of Exogenous Surfactant Treatments with Lung Maturational Agents / Steven R. Seidner -- 19. Clinical Trials of Surfactant Therapy in the Newborn / Roger F. Soll -- 20. Strategies for Surfactant Therapy in Established Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Henry L. Halliday and Christian P. Speer -- 21. Surfactant Therapy for Neonatal Lung Disorders Other than Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Frans J. Walther -- 22. Effects of Surfactant Replacement on Lung Mechanics / Nils W. Svenningsen -- 23. Ventilation Strategies in Relation to Surfactant Replacement / Robert A. deLemos, Rangasamy Ramanathan and Jacqueline J. Coalson -- 24. Radiographic Evaluation of the Therapeutic Response / David K. Edwards III -- 25. Cardiovascular Effects of Surfactant Replacement with Special Reference to the Patent Ductus Arteriosus / Gad Alpan and Ronald I. Clyman --
• 26. Effects of Surfactant Replacement on Cerebral Hemodynamics and Oxygenation / E. Osmund, R. Reynolds, Anthony David Edwards and David C. McCormick -- 27. Reoxygenation Effects of Surfactant Replacement Therapy / Ola Didrik Saugstad -- 28. Surfactant Therapy for Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Francis X. McCormack and Robert J. Mason -- 29. Outcomes of Surfactant-Treated Infants: Analysis of Developmental Outcome and the Economic Impact of Surfactant Therapy / T. Allen Merritt, Terry Turner, Yvonne Vaucher, Mikko Hallman and Mary Jesse Wilson -- 30. Postscript: Perspectives for the Future / Bengt Robertson and H. William Taeusch.

ISBN

0824795024 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

95022122

OCLC

• ocm32628220
• SCSB-4778756

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries