Preface. Units, symbols and abbreviations. 1. Structure of the respiratory system: lungs, air ways and dead space. 2. The thoracic cage and reparatory muscles. 3. Pressure and volumes during normal breathing.

4. gas laws and reparatory symbols. 5. Diffusion. 6. Lung mechanics: elastic forces. 7. Lung mechanics: airway resistance.

8. Carriage of oxygen. 9. Carriage of carbon dioxide. 10. Control of acid-base balance. 11. Control of breathing I: neural mechanisms.

12. Control of breathing II: chemical mechanisms. 13. Pulmonary circulation and anatomical right-to0-left shunts. 14. Ventilation-perfusion mismatching. 15. Development of the reparatory system and birth.

16. Complications of development and congenital disease. 17. Lung defence mechanisms and immunology. 18. Pulmonary function tests. 19. Chest imaging and bronchoscopy.

20. Respiratory failure. 21. Asthma: pathophysiology. 22. Asthma: treatment. 23. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

24. Pulmonary hypertension. 25. Venous thromboembiolism and pulmonary embolism. 26. Pulmonary involvement in vasculitis. 27. Interstitial lung disease.

28. Pleural diseases. 29. Pneumothorax. 30. Cystic fibrosis and bronchiectasis disease. 31. Occupational and environmental-related lung disease.

32. Pneumonia. 33. Pulmonary tuberculosis. 34. Respiratory infections in HIV infection. 35. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) 36.

Lung cancer. 37. Sleep-disordered breathing. 38. Mechanical ventilation. 39. Acute oxygen therapy. 40.

Case studies. 41. Case studies: answers. Index.