COPD in the 21st Century

This book will be published in March 2024. It will be available to pre-order in January 2024.

Edited by Wisia Wedzicha, James Allinson and Peter M.A. Calverley

Contents list (subject to change)

1. A patient's perspective
2. COPD as the new millennium begins
3. The new epidemiology of COPD
4. Mechanisms and mediators for disease
5. Imaging and COPD: why it matters
6. Mucus and COPD
7. Chronic bronchitis revisited
8. The microbiome and COPD
9. New physiological measurements in COPD
10. Eosinophils and COPD
11. Defining COPD in the 21st Century
12. Understanding the natural history of COPD
13. Cardiac comorbidity and COPD: chance or consequence
14. Guidelines and strategies of management
15. Pharmacotherapy of COPD – lessons from clinical trials
16. The future drug treatment of COPD
17. Pulmonary rehabilitation for COPD
18. Medical lung volume reduction
19. New insights into the pathophysiology and epidemiology of COPD exacerbations
20. Managing the acute exacerbation – how much progress have we made?
21. Noninvasive ventilation in COPD
22. COPD at a tipping point

ISBN: 978-1-84984-175-7