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About The Book
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Patients with chest ailments form an important part of outdoor patients in most of the Indian hospitals. At
the same time specialization is a hallmark of modern times; respiratory medicine is no exception. With
the recognition of chest medicine as a speciality apart from better diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
which had earlier been overshadowing other chest diseases more and more non-tuberculous pulmonary
disorders have been recognized in the recent decades through application of advanced diagnostic
procedures. The advancement has helped chest physicians to better understand the pathophysiology of
diseases thereby creating possibilities to provide better chest care to the community.
The book provides current information regarding tropical pulmonary disorders in a simple language.
Bronchial asthma has since been recognised as an inflammatory problem the role of inhaled corticosteroids
has been stressed as the first line of treatment. Similarly setting up of convenient and economic high-tech
pulmonary functional laboratories to provide proper evaluation and management of other airflow limitation
disorders has been suggested. Management of bronchial carcinoma reaffirms the physician’s stress to
create tobacco-free global atmosphere as the only answer to this dreadful fatal disease. Current topics
on lung transplantation drug induced pulmonary disorders and lungs in connective tissue disorders have
also been though precisely touched yet with full justice and completeness.
The book is an attempt to provide precise and to the point information that is essential for medical
students and practitioners regarding common respiratory diseases and disorders. It may look exacerbated
to anticipate that the material provided in a concise manner may serve as a valuable teaching tool as well
since hardly any comparable compendium of information on chest medicine with Indian reference is
available. The book may serve as a medium to allow certain outstanding academicians to exchange and
crossfertilize ideas thus encouraging the new investigators in respiratory medicine to initiate further research
in this field. Most of the chapters are based on my short experiences in pulmonology that I gained through
medical literature and through my clinical practice while being in close association and direct communication
with professors like Dr PS Shankar Dr SK Jindal and Sir J Crofton respectively. I am grateful to
Dr PS Shankar and salute him for his critical evaluation and wise comments. In fact nothing could pass
through his wise eye without scrutiny; that shows the masterly class that he has achieved through his
academic career. I express my indebtedness to Professor PS Kalsi for kindly arranging the publication of
the book.
I express my deep sense of gratefulness to my family members who have always encouraged and
supported me to prepare the manuscript. I would be glad if this book is accepted as a modest contribution
towards an easy understanding of respiratory medicine.