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COPD Clinical Perspectives

COPD Clinical Perspectives

COPD Clinical Perspectives

This book brings together an international group of experts in COPD to provide in depth reviews of clinical perspectives into COPD. Topics range from the diagnosis of airflow limitation by spirometry, distinguishing COPD from another common obstructive lung disease, asthma, alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency and opportunities to diagnose this most common hereditary cause of COPD and as a paradigm for the development of novel therapeutics, the overlap syndrome - the concurrence of two epidemic disorders: COPD and obstructive sleep apnea, and pulmonary rehabilitation, one of the most effective treatments for COPD.

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