PULMONARY CIRCULATION: DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT, 4TH EDITION. BOOK + EBOOK

• Provides comprehensive coverage from diagnosis and clinical evaluation of pulmonary hypertension to imaging techniques, disorders and treatment
• Contains the contributions of a truly global team of experts, plus key opinion leaders provide a wealth of detail on the latest developments and issues
• Adds new chapters on right ventricular biology, drug, non-drug therapy and trial design, classification, lung transplantation, pulmonary vascular tumors, pediatrics and phenotyping
• Increases the use of color throughout the book
• Gives access to further information, animations and videos through an available eBook

This book remains an essential resource for pulmonary hypertension specialists. It is considered to be in the vanguard of its type in the field of pulmonary circulation, providing a balance between scientific review and clinically relevant comprehensive guidelines for the busy practicing physician. This new edition builds on the success of the previous three and should prove invaluable in providing practicing pulmonologists with a highly-ordered, unique reference work on the structure, function and pathophysiology of pulmonary circulation.

Table of Contents
Foreword.
Preface.
Physiology and Pathophysiology of pulmonary circulation and Right heart.
Pathobiology of Pulmonary Vascular Disease and right ventricular failure.
Clinical Assessment of Pulmonary Hypertension.
Group 1 Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.
Drug and non-drug Treatment of Group 1 Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.
Group 2 Pulmonary hypertension associated with Left heart conditions.
Group 3 Pulmonary hypertension associated with Hypoxia, hypoventilation and lung disease.
Group 4 Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.
Group 5 Pulmonary hypertension with unclear and/or multifactorial mechanisms.
Acute Pulmonary Embolism.
Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension.
Pulmonary Circulation in Critical Care.
Pulmonary Circulation in environmental stress.
Pulmonary arterio-venous malformations and shunts.
Pulmonary vascular Tumors and Pulmonary Vasculitis.