DOI: 10.1055/s-00000075

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Issue 03 · Volume 31 · June 2010 DOI: 10.1055/s-002-21042 Advanced COPD: Pathogenesis, Evaluation, and Treatment Gerard J Criner M.D. Bartolome R Celli M.D.

PREFACE

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Criner, Gerard J; Celli, Bartolome R: Advanced COPD: Pathogenesis, Evaluation, and Treatment

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Cornwell, William D; Kim, Victor; Song, Changcheng; Rogers, Thomas J: Pathogenesis of Inflammation and Repair in Advanced COPD
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Patel, Anant R.C; Hurst, John R; Wedzicha, Jadwiga A: The Potential Value of Biomarkers in Diagnosis and Staging of COPD and Exacerbations
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Washko, George R: Diagnostic Imaging in COPD
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Chenna, Praveen R; Mannino, David M: Outcomes of Severe COPD Exacerbations Requiring Hospitalization
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MacNee, William: Right Heart Function in COPD
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Bourbeau, Jean: Preventing Hospitalization for COPD Exacerbations
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Ohar, Jill A; Donohue, James F: Mono- and Combination Therapy of Long-Acting Bronchodilators and Inhaled Corticosteroids in Advanced COPD
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Make, Barry; Krachman, Samuel; Panos, Ralph J; Doherty, Dennis E; Stoller, James K: Oxygen Therapy in Advanced COPD: In Whom Does it Work?
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Sandhaus, Robert A: Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency: Whom to Test, Whom to Treat?
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Criner, Gerard J; Mamary, A. James: Lung Volume Reduction Surgery and Lung Volume Reduction in Advanced Emphysema: Who and Why?
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Todd, Jamie L; Palmer, Scott M: Lung Transplantation in Advanced COPD: Is it Worth it?