كلية الطب البشرىRespiratory muscles in health and diseases
Control of breathing
1) Central nervous mechanisms
2) Repetors and reflexes in the respiratory system
3) High-altitude physiology
LUNG DEFENCES AND IMMUNOLOGY
1) Defenses of the respiratory tract
2) Upper respiratory tract
3) Lower respiratory tract
GENETICS OF LUNG DISEASE
a) Genetic counseling
b) Evidence for genetic effect and the hunt for ‘disease genes’
c) Syndromes and genetic effects
d) Cystic fibrosis
e) Immotile cilia syndrome
f) Atopy and associated asthma and rhinitis
g) a1-Antitrypsin deficiency
h) Immune system
i) Vascular system
j) Tumor genetics
k) Pharmacogenetics
l) Microbial genetics
CLINICAL ASPECTS
Principal symptoms of respiratory disease
a) Cough
b) Expectoration
c) Hemoptysis
d) breathlessness
e) Chest pain wheezing
f) Stridor
g) Mediastinal compression
h) Toxemia
Signs of respiratory disease
a) Tachypnea
b) Cyanosis
c) Clubbing and hypertrophic ostoearthropathy
d) Breath sounds
e) Added sounds
f) Pleural rub
DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING
1) Chest radiography
2) Computed tomography
3) Lung scintigraphy
4) Spiral CT pulmonary angiography
5) Magnetic resonance imaging
6) Fluoroscopy
7) Pulmonary and bronchial angiography
MINIMALLY INVASIVE DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES
1) Bronchoscopy and BAL
2) Thoracoscope
3) Lung biopsy
DRUGS IN LUNG DISEASE
1) Antimicrobial agents for use against bacteria and bacteria-like organisms
2) Drugs used in the management of tuberculosis
3) Drugs used in the management of airflow limitation
4) Glucocorticosteroids
5) Cytotoxic drugs used in respiratory medicine
SMOKING
1) Harm to smokers on the respiratory system
2) Harm to non-smokers
3) Mechanisms of harm
4) Effect of Smoking cessation
AIR POLLUTION
1) Main pollutants
2) Carcinogens
3) Effects of air pollution
4) Indoor air pollution
5) Advising patients about air pollution
6) Control of air pollution
ACUTE UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION
1) Common cold (acute coryza, nasopharyngitis)
2) Acute pharyngitis and tonsillitis
3) Acute supraglottitis (epiglottitis)
4) Acute laryngitis
5) Sinusitis (rhinosinusitis)
6) Acute bronchitis, tracheitis and
7) tracheobronchitis
8) Pertussis (whooping cough)
PNEUMONIA
1) Definition
2) Classification and terms in common usage
3) Pathogenesis
4) Investigation
5) Antimicrobial treatment
6) Hospital-acquired (nosocomial) pneumonia
7) Pneumococcal pneumonia
8) Legionella pneumonia
9) Mycoplasma pneumonia
10) Chlamydia pneumonia
11) Staphylococcal pneumonia
12) Streptococcal pneumonia
13) Klebsiella pneumonia (Friedländer’s pneumonia)
14) Coxiella pneumonia (Q fever)
15) Pseudomonas pneumonia
16) Escherichia coli pneumonia
17) Pneumonia caused by other Gram-negative aerobic opportunistic bacilli: Enterobacter, Serratia, Proteus, Acinetobacter
18) Haemophilus influenzae pneumonia
19) Moraxella catarrhalis pneumonia
20) Pneumonia caused by anaerobes (including aspiration pneumonia)
21) Rare and unusual bacterial pneumonias
22) Viral pneumonias
23) Radiation pneumonitis and fibrosis
24) Other forms of pneumonitis