Skip to Content
End of Year Sale. Save up to twenty-five percent off sitewide.End of Year Sale. Save up to twenty-five percent off sitewide.

Interstitial Lung Disease, An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, 1st Edition

Authors :
Talmadge E King & Harold R Collard & Luca Richeldi
Date of Publication: 03/2012
The guest editors for this issue, Talmadge King, Harold Collard, celebrated pulmonary specialists from UCSF, and Luca Richeldi, renowned visiting professor to UCSF from University of Modena, Italy, bring together a state-of-the-art issue on the impor ...view more
The guest editors for this issue, Talmadge King, Harold Collard, celebrated pulmonary specialists from UCSF, and Luca Richeldi, renowned visiting professor to UCSF from University of Modena, Italy, bring together a state-of-the-art issue on the important topic of Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD).  This comprehensive issue reviews the approach to diagnosis of ILD, radiology if ILD, pathology of ILD.  Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is discussed, including phenotypes and comorbidities, acute exacerbation and accelerated decline, management, and pathobiology of novel approaches to therapy.  Connective Tissue ILD, Chronic Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis, familial ILD and smoking-related ILD, and non-specific interstitial pneumonia are reviewed.  In the final article, lung transplantation is discussed.
Add to Cart
The guest editors for this issue, Talmadge King, Harold Collard, celebrated pulmonary specialists from UCSF, and Luca Richeldi, renowned visiting professor to UCSF from University of Modena, Italy, bring together a state-of-the-art issue on the important topic of Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD).  This comprehensive issue reviews the approach to diagnosis of ILD, radiology if ILD, pathology of ILD.  Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is discussed, including phenotypes and comorbidities, acute exacerbation and accelerated decline, management, and pathobiology of novel approaches to therapy.  Connective Tissue ILD, Chronic Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis, familial ILD and smoking-related ILD, and non-specific interstitial pneumonia are reviewed.  In the final article, lung transplantation is discussed.

Author Information
By Talmadge E King, MD, Julius R. Krevans Distinguished Professorship in Internal Medicine, Chair, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Harold R Collard, MD, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA and Luca Richeldi, MD, PhD, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Agostino Gemelli University Hospital, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italty