Essential Paediatric Pulmonology

In this edition, all chapters have been revised and 20 new chapters have been added. New chapters/sections added in this edition include imaging of chest including X-ray and computed tomography scan; endobronchial ultrasound and its uses; fractional exhaled nitric oxide; nasal nitric oxide; acute laryngotracheobronchitis; pulmonary fungal infections; allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis; assessment of airway inflammation; preschool wheezing; obesity and asthma; hypersensitivity pneumonitis; environment and lung diseases; neuromuscular diseases and lungs; central hypoventilation syndrome; pulmonary arterial hypertension; pulmonary injury due to pharmacological agents; sudden infant death syndrome; genetics and pulmonary illnesses; chronic care of respiratory illnesses at home; airway clearance techniques; oxygen therapy; aerosol therapy; and pharmacology of pediatric pulmonary disorders. All the chapters are revised to include diagnostic and treatment algorithms. More tables, figures, and line diagrams have been included in the existing chapters. The “key points” provides a summary for quick reference. This new edition of book will provide the necessary information required for the management of acute and chronic respiratory diseases in children, meeting the needs of pediatricians, specialists and pediatric residents.

Contents: Section I: General Considerations. 1. Introductory Anatomy: Respiratory System/P Ramesh Menon. 2. Physiology of the Respiratory System/Lokesh Guglani. 3. History Taking and Physical Examination/Sushil K Kabra, Rakesh Lodha. 4. Investigations in Pulmonology. Section II: Respiratory Infections. 5. Upper Respiratory Tract Infections/Sushil K Kabra, Rakesh Lodha. 6. Acute Laryngotracheobronchitis/Kana Ram Jat. 7. Acute Bronchiolitis/Rakesh Lodha, Sushil K Kabra. 8. Community Acquired Pneumonia/Rakesh Lodha, Sushil K Kabra. 9. Respiratory Viruses/Lokesh Guglani. 10. Fungal Pneumonia/Aparna Mukherjee, Sushil K Kabra. 11. Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis/Kana Ram Jat. 12. Recurrent/Persistent Pneumonia/Rakesh Lodha, Sushil K Kabra. 13. Suppurative Lung Diseases/Rakesh Lodha, Sushil K Kabra. 14. Pulmonary Infections in Immunocompromised Children/Aparna Mukherjee, Rakesh Lodha. 15. Tuberculosis/Sushil K Kabra, Rakesh Lodha. 16. Eosinophilic Lung Diseases/Jasmeet Kaur, Rakesh Lodha, Sushil K Kabra. Section III: Asthma. 17. Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Natural History of Asthma/Snehal Vala, Lokesh Guglani. 18. Clinical Presentation and Diagnosis of Asthma/Jagdish P Goyal. 19. Assessment of Airway Inflammation/Anirban Maitra. 20. Acute Exacerbation of Asthma/Prawin Kumar, Jhuma Sankar. 21. Long-term Treatment of Asthma/Sushil K Kabra, Rakesh Lodha, P Ramesh Menon. 22. Difficult Asthma/Sushil K Kabra, Rakesh Lodha. 23. Preschool Wheezing/Kana Ram Jat. 24. Asthma and Obesity/Dinesh Raj. Section IV: Noninfectious Diseases. 25. Cystic Fibrosis/Sushil K Kabra, Madhulika Kabra, Rakesh Lodha. 26. Interstitial Lung Disease/Rakesh Lodha, Sushil K Kabra. 27. Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis/Narendra Bagri, Jhuma Sankar. 28. Pediatric Sarcoidosis/Ganganath Gunathilaka, Sushil K Kabra. 29. Pulmonary Manifestations of Rheumatological Disorders/Lesa Dawman, Sushil K Kabra. 30. Asthma and Gastroesophageal Reflux/Channa de Silva, Sushil K Kabra, Rakesh Lodha. 31. Foreign Body Aspiration/Sandeep Agarwala. 32. Hydrocarbon Aspiration/Jhuma Sankar. 33. Pulmonary Hemorrhage/Channa de Silva, Sushil K Kabra. 34. Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea/Sumit Bhargava, Sushil K Kabra. 35. Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia/Kana Ram Jat, Rakesh Lodha, Sushil K Kabra. 36. Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia/Kannan Venkatnarayan, M Jeeva Sankar. 37. Environment and Lung Disease/Vinod H Ratageri. 38. Central Hypoventilation Syndromes/Wai Wong, Estefania Rivera, Umakanth Khatwa. 39. Assessment and Management of Patients with Neuromuscular Weakness/Sumit Verma, Lokesh Guglani. 40. Pediatric Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension/Prawin Kumar, Jhuma Sankar. 41. Pulmonary Injury due to Pharmacological Agents/Sneha Varkki. 42. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome/Samiya Razvi. 43. Genetics and Pulmonary Diseases/Neerja Gupta, Amit K Satpathy, Madhulika Kabra. Section V: Congenital Malformations. 44. Congenital Lung Malformations/Vishesh Jain, Sandeep Agarwala. Section VI: Pleural Diseases. 45. Pleural Effusion/Dinesh Raj, Rakesh Lodha. 46. Empyema Thoracis/Isha Saini, Sushil K Kabra, Rakesh Lodha. 47. Pneumothorax/Rakesh Lodha. Section VII: Neoplasms. 48. Neoplasms of Mediastinum and Respiratory Tract/Sandeep Agarwala, Alisha Gupta.