Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Issue 04 · Volume 20 · July 1999 DOI: 10.1055/s-002-8691

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Stoller, James K.: Preface

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Boueri, Fernanda M. V.; Make, Barry J.: Current Concepts in Pharmacologic Management Of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

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Gottlieb, Daniel J.: New Understandings of the Natural History and Epidemiology of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

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Aboussouan, Loutfi S.; Stoller, James K.: New Developments in Alpha 1-Antitrypsin Deficiency

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Delen, Frank M.; Barker, Alan F.: New Concepts in Diagnosis and Management of Bronchiectasis

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Wewers, Mary Ellen: Current Concepts in Smoking Cessation and Preventive Strategies

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Celli, Bartolome R.: Pulmonary Rehabilitation

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O'Donohue, Walter J.: Current Concepts in Supplemental Oxygen Therapy in Patients with COPD

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Martinez, Fernando J.: Surgical Therapy for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Conventional Bullectomy and Lung Volume Reduction Surgery in the Absence of Giant Bullae

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Dunitz, Jordan M.; Hertz, Marshall I.: Surgical Therapy for COPD: Lung Transplantation

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Hill, Nicholas S.: Current Concepts in Mechanical Ventilation for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease