European Respiratory Society Monograph, Vol. 29. 2004
ISBN: 978-1-904097-91-4
DOI: 10.1183/1025448x.erm2904
Diseases of the chest are numerous and a multidisciplinary approach by the chest physician and thoracic surgeon is often required, not only in the management of chest malignancies, but also in the treatment of non-neoplastic disorders of the chest. Furthermore, many advances and improvements are put forward in the overall management of patients with advanced lung disease; besides lung transplantation, volume reduction surgery is reported as an alternative surgical option for emphysema patients which may delay, or even preclude the need for transplant. Management of suppurative lung and pleural infections is a challenging problem in clinical practice; classical surgery stands besides thoracoscopic treatment. The frequency of thoracic injuries in trauma victims forms another challenge for the chest physician and thoracic surgeon considering that trauma ranks, at present, only behind cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Preface
E.F.M. Wouters
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Introduction
G. Verleden, D. Van Raemdonck, T. Lerut, M. Demedts
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Chronic lung allograft rejection: prevalence, pathology, risk factors and pathophysiology
G.M. Verleden, J. Egan, D. Israel-Biet, T. Lerut, J. Lordan, M. Reynaud-Gaubert, G.C. Riise, L. Sharples, S. Stewart, B. Vanaudenaerde, W. van der Bij, W. Wuyts, and other co-authors of Working Group 1
Eur Respir Mon; 2004: 29: 1–18 | |
Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome after lung transplantation: diagnosis and treatment
G.M. Verleden, A. Bankier, A. Boehler, P. Corris, L. Dupont, M. Estenne, S. Fischer, T. Lerut, H. Reichenspurner, and other co-authors of Working Group 1
Eur Respir Mon; 2004: 29: 19–43 | |
Infection and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome in lung transplant recipients
C.W. Ward, T. DeSouza, D.T. Keating, J. Lordan, J.J. Egan
Eur Respir Mon; 2004: 29: 44–54 | |
Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome and bronchiolitis obliterans in lung transplantation: will a pathologist and a physician ever meet?
E.K. Verbeken, S. Stewart
Eur Respir Mon; 2004: 29: 55–65 | |
Strategies in the prevention and the treatment of ischaemia-reperfusion injury after lung transplantation
D. Van Raemdonck, M. Strüber, F. Venuta, D. Vlasselaers, W. Wisser, M.E. Erasmus, and other co-authors of Working Group 2
Eur Respir Mon; 2004: 29: 66–88 | |
Alternatives to lung donor shortage
D. Van Raemdonck, W. Coosemans, W. Klepetko, J.H. Dark, S. Steen, F. Rega, and the co-authors of Working Group 2
Eur Respir Mon; 2004: 29: 89–112 | |
Surgery for emphysema: surgical aspects
T.C. Mineo, E. Pompeo, H.B. Ris, W. Weder, P. Evrard, G. Massard, N. Konietzko
Eur Respir Mon; 2004: 29: 113–128 | |
Surgery for emphysema: medical aspects
E.W. Russi, W. De Wever, M. Decramer
Eur Respir Mon; 2004: 29: 129–138 | |
Surgery for emphysema and prospects for the future
F. Venuta, A.M. Ciccone, G.F. Coloni
Eur Respir Mon; 2004: 29: 139–155 | |
Extrapulmonary function-improving surgery
N. Konietzko, R. Meister
Eur Respir Mon; 2004: 29: 156–167 | |
Treatment of suppurative lung disease
G. Massard
Eur Respir Mon; 2004: 29: 168–180 | |
Surgical treatment of pleural infections: the surgeon's point of view
H.B. Ris, E. Pezzetta, T. Krueger, D. Lardinois
Eur Respir Mon; 2004: 29: 181–198 | |
Treatment of parapneumonic pleural effusion and empyema: conservative view
R. Loddenkemper, D. Kaiser, W. Frank
Eur Respir Mon; 2004: 29: 199–207 | |
Congenital bronchopulmonary malformations in adults
J. Hasse
Eur Respir Mon; 2004: 29: 208–222 | |
Tracheobronchial ruptures in blunt trauma of the thorax: diagnosis and treatment
P. De Leyn, J. Jougon, J-F. Velly
Eur Respir Mon; 2004: 29: 223–233 | |
Airway injury and sequelae: conservative view
M. Noppen
Eur Respir Mon; 2004: 29: 234–245 | |