Pharmacotherapy in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
By: edited by Bartolome R. Celli.
Contributors: Celli, Bartolome R.
Series: Lung biology in health and disease -- v. 182
Publisher: Marcel Dekker
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive -- drug therapy.; Drug Evaluation.; Lungs -- Diseases, Obstructive -- Chemotherapy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Providing evidence of therapeutic benefit in clinical drug development / Steven Kesten and Theodore J. Witek; title: Use of expiratory airflows and lung volumes to assess outcomes in COPD / Gary T. Ferguson; title: Exercise testing / Denis E. O'Donnell and Katherine A. Webb; title: Sleep-related breathing disturbances in COPD / Walter T. McNicholas; title: Airway and alveolar determinants of airflow limitation in COPD / Noe Zamel; title: Gas exchange / Antoni Ferrer, Joan Albert Barberá, and Roberto Rodriguez-Roisin; title: Genetics of COPD / Jian-Quing He, Ikuma Kasuga, and Peter D. Paré; title: Dyspnea / Donald A. Mahler; title: Exacerbations of COPD / Jadwiga A. Wedzicha; title: Health status measurement in COPD / Paul W. Jones; title: Health resource utilization / Mitchell Friedman; title: Anticholinergics / Peter J. Barnes; title: gbs-adrenergic receptor agonist bronchodilators in the treatment of COPD / Stephen I. Rennard; title: Theophylline and phosphodiesterase inhibitors in COPD / Alicia R. ZuWallack and Richard L. ZuWallack; title: Corticosteroids in COPD / Mario Cazzola, Maria Gabriella Matera, and Romain Pauwels; title: Antioxidants and protease inhibitors / Mario Cazzola and Maria Gabriella Matera; title: An integrated approach to the pharmacological therapy of COPD / Bartolome R. Celli.