Pulmonary physiology

Levitsky, M.G., Pulmonary Physiology, 5th ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1999. 

West, J.B., Pulmonary Physiology and Pathophysiology, an Integrated, Case-Based Approach, Lippincott/Williams Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2001. 

Landy, T.D., Ramsey, J.C. and McKenna, M.J. (1983). Pulmonary physiology and inhalation dosimetry in rats Development of a method and two examples. Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 

Some of the most supportive research includes studies of pulmonary physiology and response to respiratory challenges. Evidence exists that proximal socioenvironmental factors may interact with an underlying respiratory abnormality. From a developmental perspective, the evidence suggests that social separation may be one particularly important environmental factor in this regard. 

Tashkin, D.P., Shapiro, B.J., and Frank, I.M. Acute pulmonary physiologic effects of smoked marijuana and oral A -tetrahydro-cannabinol in healthy young men. N. Engl. J. Med. 289 336-341, 1973. 

Comparative Pulmonary Physiology Current Concepts, edited by S. C. Wood... 

Exercise Pulmonary Physiology and Pathophysiology, edited by B. J. Whipp and K. Wasserman... 

Levitzky MG. Pulmonary Physiology. New York McGraw Hill, 1999. 

In the early stages of the disease the patient often has a normal physical examination of the chest, a normal x-ray and pulmonary physiologic tests may, at worst, be equivocally abnormal. These early CB patients often get more chest colds which take longer than usual to resolve. However, a few severe chronic bronchitics will deny ever having a chest cold or pneumonia. The patient may first seek medical care because of such an acute bronchial infection, but even then the underlying CB may be denied or missed. 

The archival function of models implies that they should also serve a valuable teaching function, as indeed they do in the physical sciences. Dynamic respiratory models, especially in their computerized interactive format, should be very valuable in teaching physiologists, medical students, and physicians the essence of normal and pathological pulmonary physiology. 

Exercise Pulmonary Physiology and Pathophysiology, edited by B. J. Whipp and K. Wasserman Developmental Neurobiology of Breathing, edited by G. G. Haddad and J. P Farber... 

Rudd RM, Haslam PL, Tumer-Warwick M. Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis. Relationships of pulmonary physiology and bronchoalveolar lavage to response to treatment and prognosis. Am Rev Respk Dis 1981 124 1. ... 

Indications for treatment include (i) severe symptoms, such as debilitating cough or dyspnea (ii) abnormal gas exchange, diminished exercise tolerance, or abnormal pulmonary physiology (iii) progressive decline in these tests of impairment or (iv) evidence of pulmonary hypertension or cor pulmonale. Initial corticosteroid therapy should be similar to that used in sarcoidosis oral prednisone... 

Pappas GP, Newman LS. Early pulmonary physiologic abnormalities in beryUium disease. Am Rev Respir Dis 1993 148 661-666. 

Malvin GM. Gill structure and function amphibian larvae. In Wood SC, ed. Comparative Pulmonary Physiology Current Concepts, Vol. 39, Lung Biology in Health and Disease. New York Marcel Dekker, 1989 121-151. 

Tirlapur VG, Mir MA. Effect of low calorie intake on abnormal pulmonary physiology in patients with chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure. Am J Med 1984 77 987-994. 

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