The European Respiratory Society (ERS) offers a range of publications to promote knowledge and research in respiratory health. The ERS Monograph is the quarterly book series from the European Respiratory Society. Each Monograph covers a specific area of respiratory medicine, providing in-depth reviews that give clinicians at all levels a concise, comprehensive guide to symptoms, diagnosis and treatment. Check out the recent one edited by Thomas Wagner, Marc Humbert, Marlies Wijsenbeek-Lourens, Michael Kreuter and Helge Hebestreit with the following content list:
Contents list (subject to change)
1. How to identify rare diseases of the respiratory system
2. Differential diagnosis of lung diseases, including pseudo-tumours and reciprocal mimics of neoplastic and non-neoplastic pulmonary disorders
Rare diseases of the lung interstitium
4. Interstitial lung diseases
5. Rare interstitial lung diseases of environmental origin, including hypersensitivity pneumonitis and occupational exposures
6. Amyloidosis and the lung
7. Multiple cystic lung diseases including lymphangioleiomyomatosis
Rare diseases of the airways or alveoli
8. Bronchiolitis
9. Alveolar proteinosis
10. Primary ciliary dyskinesia
11. Cystic fibrosis and other ion channel related diseases
12. Non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis
13. Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency and other rare forms of emphysema
Pulmonary vascular diseases
14. Pulmonary arterial hypertension
15. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
16. Pulmonary hypertension in orphan lung diseases
17. Hepatopulmonary syndrome: a liver-induced oxygenation defect
Rare lung diseases in systemic inflammatory disorders
18. Systemic inflammatory diseases with rare lung involvement (including Behçet’s disease and Takayasu’s arteriitis)
19. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis and other pulmonary haemorrhage syndromes
20. Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis and other vasculitis
21. Idiopathic eosinophilic pneumonias
22. Sarcoidosis
23. Granulomatous lymphocytic interstitial lung disease
Other rare lung diseases
24. Thoracic endometriosis and catamenial pneumothorax
25. Chronic lung allograft dysfunction
26. Malformations and idiopathic tracheopathies
27. Rare diseases of the respiratory drive
28. Mesothelioma and other rare tumours of the respiratory system
ISBN: 9781849841665
