Hodson and Geddes' Cystic Fibrosis, 4E covers the the multidisciplinary nature of the condition

BOCA RATON, Fla. - Aug. 11, 2015 - PRLog -- CRC Press (www.crcpress.com), a global science, technology and medical publisher, is pleased to announce the publication of “Hodson and Geddes' Cystic Fibrosis, Fourth Edition.” Written by Drs. Andrew Bush, Diana Bilton and Margaret Hodson, this book provides everything the respiratory clinician, pulmonologist or health professional treating patient’s needs in a single manageable volume.

This international and authoritative work brings together current knowledge and has become established in previous editions as a leading reference in the field. This fourth edition includes a wealth of new information, figures, useful videos, and a companion eBook.

This new edition includes expanded coverage of clinical areas, including chapters covering sleep, lung mechanics and the work of breathing, upper airway disease, insulin deficiency and diabetes, bone disease, and sexual and reproductive issues.  Also included is a new section on monitoring and discussion of the use of databases to improve patient care as well as a chapter written by patients and families about their experiences with the disease.

"So why a new edition? This is an era of change in CF; new diagnostic methods—the advance of newborn screening, the recognition of milder and atypical phenotypes; new diagnostic techniques such as molecular microbiology; new approaches to conventional problems, and, more excitingly, the age of targeting the upstream defect, with gene therapy and designer molecular treatments, with their incredible benefit and even more incredible expense; and novel animal models—what will the ferret and pig teach us? So a big focus of this volume is clinical trials work; what we have got right, what went wrong, and what we can learn so we can do better in the future.” – from the preface

The basic science that underlies the disease and its progression is outlined in detail and put into a clinical context. Diagnostic and clinical aspects are covered in depth, as well as promising advances such as gene therapies and other novel molecular based treatments.

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