Foundations of Respiratory Medicine

Respiratory physiology in practice.- Respiratory anatomy and imaging.- Asthma.- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.- Bronchiectasis.- Acute and chronic cough.- Interstitial lung disease.- Lung cancer.- Diseases of the pleura.- Sleep and ventilation medicine.- Respiratory infection.- Tuberculosis and other mycobacterial infections.- Pulmonary embolism.- Pulmonary hypertension Cystic fibrosis Rare/orphan lung diseases. 

Dr Simon Hart trained in Edinburgh, Fife, and the Scottish Borders. He did his PhD at the University of Edinburgh/Medical Research Council Centre for Inflammation Research where he studied phagocytic clearance of apoptotic cells by macrophages, and this was followed by an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship. He moved to East Yorkshire in 2008 as Clinical Senior Lecturer with Hull York Medical School and honorary Consultant at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust. He is lead clinician for the regional Interstitial Lung Disease service and pursues basic science and clinical research in sarcoidosis and pulmonary fibrosis. He has been a question writer and examiner for the Royal College of Physicians and contributor to various British Thoracic Society committees.





Dr Michael Greenstone trained in London and West Yorkshire before taking up his post as consultant physician at Castle Hill Hospital and Hull Royal Infirmary. Hewas Clinical Lecturer at the Cardiothoracic Institute, Brompton Hospital and was awarded an MD for research on respiratory tract cilia. He has been a reviewer and Associate Editor for the Cochrane Airways Group and contributed to British Thoracic Society guidelines on asthma, bronchiectasis and malignant mesothelioma. He has been an examiner and question writer for Royal College of Physicians examinations and is Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Hull York Medical School. His clinical interests include sleep- disordered breathing and ventilatory failure and he leads the tertiary level Sleep and Home Ventilation service.

"This book covers the diagnosis and management of common respiratory diseases, as well as emerging concepts. ... The audience includes general internists and postgraduate trainees in respiratory medicine." (Santosh Dhungana, Doody's Book Reviews, February, 2019)