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Title

Pulmonary infection in the immunocompromised patient : strategies for management / editors, Carlos Agusti and Antoni Torres.

Publication

Chichester, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Agustí, Carlos.
• Torres Martí, A. (Antoni)

Description

xiii, 443 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

• Immunosuppression > Complications
• Lungs > Infections
• Immunocompromised Host
• Respiratory infections
• Lung Diseases > therapy
• Opportunistic Infections > therapy
• Lung Diseases > complications
• Opportunistic Infections > complications

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Lung immune defences in the immunosuppressed patient / Naimish Patel, Henry Koziel -- Microbiological diagnosis of respiratory infections in the immunocompromised / Margareta Ieven -- Diagnosis of pneumonia in immunocompromised patients / Robert P. Baughman, Elyse E. Lower -- Pulmonary imaging in immunocompromised patients / Tomás Franquet -- Pulmonary infections in HIV patients in the highly active antiretroviral therapy era / Natividad Benito, Asunción Moreno-Camacho -- Neutropenia / Maria J. Rüping, Jörg J. Vehreschild, Santiago Ewig, Oliver A. Cornely -- General management of suspected pneumonia in the solid organ transplant paitent / Andrew F. Shorr -- Respiratory infections following haematopoietic stem cell transplantation / Ayman O. Soubani --
• Chronic non-infectious pulmonary complications in haematopoietic stem cell transplantation / Bekele Afessa, Steve G. Peters -- Pulmonary infections in patients on chronic glucocorticoid treatment / Ana Rañó, Carlos Agusti ́-- Intensive care management in the immunocompromised patient with pulmonary infiltrates / Gilles Hilbert, Didier Gruson, Frederic Vargas -- Current strategies and future directions in antibacterial treatment / Jan Jelrik Oosterheert, Andy I.M. Hoepelman -- Current strategies in the treatment of fungal infections in the intensive care unit setting / Mitchell Goldman, George A. Sarosi -- Current strategies and future directions in cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonitis / Julio C. Medina, José M. Aguado -- Antiviral agents against respiratory viruses / Michael G. Ison.

ISBN

• 0470319577 (hbk.)
• 9780470319574 (hbk.)

LCCN

2008036179

OCLC

• ocn244177258
• 244177258
• SCSB-5473986

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries