Publisher's Synopsis
This volume provides a comprehensive, review of lung injury, defense and repair, and therapeutic interventions. The book focuses on clinically relevant issues such as infections and host defenses, immune injury, airborne contaminants, acute lung injury, injury from drugs, fibrotic processes, genetic modulation of susceptibility to lung disease, the lung in the intensive care setting, and the lung following transplantation. The information presented should help clinicians deal with the large number of patients presenting with an increasing variety of lung injuries or suspected lung injuries.
