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Integrated Pulmonary Medicine: Infection, Tissue Pathology, and Cancer presents an integrated academic framework for understanding lung diseases across infection, host-pathogen interaction, tissue injury, chronic inflammation, fibrosis, and cancer biology.
The volume begins with foundational lung anatomy, physiology, cellular architecture, and pulmonary immune defense. It then explores respiratory pathogens, antimicrobial resistance, acute and chronic lung injury, interstitial lung disease, vascular pathology, and the complex relationship between chronic infection, inflammation, and carcinogenesis.
Subsequent sections address lung cancer classification, molecular genetics, diagnostic biomarkers, radiology-pathology correlation, microbiological and histopathological approaches, diagnostic algorithms, therapeutics, critical care, precision medicine, and the future role of artificial intelligence in pulmonary diagnostics.
Designed for clinicians, pathologists, microbiologists, radiologists, researchers, educators, and advanced trainees, the book encourages a multidisciplinary approach to respiratory medicine and aims to bridge basic science with clinical decision-making.