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Childhood asthma
- Title
- Childhood asthma / edited by Stanley J. Szefler, Søren Pederson.
- Publication
- New York : Taylor & Francis, 2006.
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- Description
- xxiii, 703 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This reference collects the latest studies on the development, diagnosis, and treatment of childhood asthma and offers current perspectives on new technologies that will shape the management of pediatric asthma in the forthcoming decade - illustrating how advances in pulmonary function measurement, inflammatory markers, imaging, and pharmacogenetics will enhance the diagnosis and monitoring of asthma in years to come."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Lung biology in health and disease ; v. 209
- Uniform Title
- Lung biology in health and disease ; v. 209.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Claude Lenfant -- 1. The epidemiology and burden of pediatric asthma / David A. Stempel -- 2. Developmental regulation of immune functions and risk for allergy and asthma / Susan L. Prescott and Patrick G. Holt -- 3. Origins of asthma / J. O. Warner -- 4. Developmental features of airway remodeling / Meri K. Tulic, Celine Bergeron, Patrick Daigneault and Qutayba Hamid -- 5. Asthma in children and adults - natural course of the disease / Ronina Covar and Joseph D. Spahn -- 6. Growth and development of the child with asthma / David B. Allen -- 7. Viral respiratory infections and asthma / James E. Gern and Robert F. Lemanske -- 8. Controlling the environment of asthmatic children : benefits and limitations / Andrea J. Apter and Peyton A. Eggleston -- 9. Early pharmacologic intervention of asthma : how early and what treatment? / Soren Pedersen -- 10. Measuring pulmonary function in young children / Wayne Morgan, Theresa Guilbert and Gary L. Larsen -- 11. Inflammatory mediators of asthma in children / Peter G. Gibson and Jodie L. Simpson -- 12. Imaging in pediatric asthma / Talissa A. Altes and Alan S. Brody -- 13. Pharmacogenetics : will it have a place in managing childhood asthma? / Scott T. Weiss, Kelan G. Tantisira, Eric Silverman, Edwin K. Silverman, Stephen Lake, Brent Richter and Ross Lazarus -- 14. Asthma education : translating knowledge into action / James Y. Paton -- 15. Managing childhood asthma : evolving guidelines / Allan Becker -- 16. Choosing the appropriate asthma medication delivery device / Myrna B. Dolovich -- 17. Anticipating and managing variable response to asthma therapy / Stanley J. Szefler and Glenn Whelan -- 18. Role of allergen-specific immunotherapy in childhood asthma / Andrew H. Liu and Harold S. Nelson -- 19. Inner-city asthma / Meyer Kattan -- 20. Asthma in adolescence / Robert C. Strunk, Leonard B. Bacharier and Gordon R. Bloomberg -- 21. Exercise-induced asthma in the competitive athlete / Henry Milgrom -- 22. Comorbid illness associated with childhood asthma / Gail G. Shapiro -- 23. Improving asthma medication adherence / Bruce G. Bender, Cynthia Rand and Frederick S. Wamboldt -- 24. Potential applications of new drugs in the management of childhood asthma / Peter J. Barnes -- 25. Difficult-to-control asthma / John F. Price -- 26. Childhood asthma management in the next 10 years / Stanley J. Szefler and Soren Pedersen.
- ISBN
- 0824727355 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0849392055
- LCCN
- 2005052894
- 9780824727352
- 9780849392054
- OCLC
- ocm61285730
- SCSB-5214671
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries