Drugs for the Treatment of Respiratory Diseases
Contributors: Domenico Spina (Editor); Clive P. Page (Editor); William J. Metzger (Editor); Brian J. O'Connor (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 24, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780521773218
Subjects: Pharmacy / dispensing; Respiratory medicine; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Lungs; Chemotherapy; drug therapy; Medical / Nursing; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Medical; Pharmacology; Emergency Medicine; Medical / Emergency Medicine; Respiratory agents; Diseases
First sentence: It is widely recognized that neither asthma nor COPD are disease entities but rather each is a complex of inflammatory conditions that have in common airflow limitation (syn. obstruction) whose reversibility varies (Fig. 1.1).