Clinical Focus Series:  (English, Paperback, Sharma Om P)

Clinical Focus Series' Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis opens with a brief historical account, followed by descriptions of epidemiologic, radiologic, immunopathologic, histopathologic, diagnostic, and therapeutic developments. A group of highly respected international authorities have contributed the easy-to-read chapters, enhanced by informative visual images. The thread of clinical discussion that focuses on the basic scientific information runs through the book. The contributing authors have effectively condensed the ever growing field with an appropriate balance of basic science and clinical information of HP.

Table of Contents
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments

• Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis: A Historical Perspective
• Epidemiology of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
• Pathology of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis 
• Immunopathogenesis of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis 
• Radiology of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis 
• Differential Diagnosis of Granuloma 
• Role of Bronchoscopy and Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
• Syndromes of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
• Summer-type Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis 
• Newer Syndromes of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis 
• Lung Function in Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis 
• Genetics of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis 
• Treatment of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis 
• Proteomics in Granulomatous Diseases

Index