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Dilys Lai, Consultant in Respiratory and General Medicine, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK.
| Preface | p. vii |
| Acknowledgements | p. viii |
| How to use this book | p. ix |
| Basics | p. 1 |
| Basic science | p. 1 |
| Approach to the patient | p. 17 |
| Cases | p. 41 |
| A 64-year-old man with respiratory arrest | p. 41 |
| A 19-year-old man with chest tightness | p. 46 |
| A 31-year-old woman with poorly-controlled asthma | p. 51 |
| A 22-year-old man with life-threatening shortness of breath | p. 60 |
| A 65-year-old man with worsening shortness of breath | p. 68 |
| A worried 56-year-old man | p. 75 |
| An 81-year-old man with acute shortness of breath | p. 80 |
| A 73-year-old woman with confusion | p. 87 |
| A 78-year-old man with ankle swelling | p. 92 |
| A 72-year-old man with a hoarse voice | p. 98 |
| A 56-year-old woman with an abnormal chest X-ray | p. 106 |
| A 68-year-old man with shortness of breath and chest pain | p. 112 |
| A 16-year-old boy with right-sided chest pain | p. 117 |
| A 62-year-old woman with breathlessness | p. 124 |
| A 24-year-old woman with pleuritic chest pain | p. 129 |
| An elderly woman who collapsed suddenly | p. 139 |
| A 45-year-old man with chest pain and breathlessness | p. 148 |
| A 72-year-old man who becomes breathless during inpatient stay on a medical ward | p. 156 |
| A 58-year-old woman with breathlessness following surgery | p. 162 |
| A 16-year-old boy with a sore throat | p. 169 |
| A 45-year-old woman with a chronic cough | p. 174 |
| A 17-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis | p. 179 |
| A 25-year-old woman with cough and weight loss | p. 186 |
| A 44-year-old man commencing treatment for tuberculosis | p. 196 |
| A 32-year-old man who absconds from directly observed therapy for tuberculosis | p. 201 |
| A 32-year-old woman with a skin rash and abnormal chest X-ray | p. 207 |
| A 68-year-old woman with worsening breathlessness on exertion | p. 213 |
| A 35-year-old man with chronic shortness of breath | p. 220 |
| An overweight 52-year-old man who snores | p. 226 |
| Self-assessment | p. 232 |
| MCQs | p. 232 |
| EMQs | p. 237 |
| SAQs | p. 243 |
| Answers | p. 245 |
| Index of cases by diagnosis | p. 251 |
| Index | p. 253 |
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