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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| How to use this book | |
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| Basics | |
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| Basic science | |
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| Approach to the patient | |
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| Cases | |
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| A 64-year-old man with respiratory arrest | |
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| A 19-year-old man with chest tightness | |
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| A 31-year-old woman with poorly-controlled asthma | |
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| A 22-year-old man with life-threatening shortness of breath | |
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| A 65-year-old man with worsening shortness of breath | |
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| A worried 56-year-old man | |
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| An 81-year-old man with acute shortness of breath | |
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| A 73-year-old woman with confusion | |
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| A 78-year-old man with ankle swelling | |
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| A 72-year-old man with a hoarse voice | |
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| A 56-year-old woman with an abnormal chest X-ray | |
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| A 68-year-old man with shortness of breath and chest pain | |
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| A 16-year-old boy with right-sided chest pain | |
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| A 62-year-old woman with breathlessness | |
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| A 24-year-old woman with pleuritic chest pain | |
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| An elderly woman who collapsed suddenly | |
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| A 45-year-old man with chest pain and breathlessness | |
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| A 72-year-old man who becomes breathless during inpatient stay on a medical ward | |
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| A 58-year-old woman with breathlessness following surgery | |
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| A 16-year-old boy with a sore throat | |
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| A 45-year-old woman with a chronic cough | |
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| A 17-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis | |
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| A 25-year-old woman with cough and weight loss | |
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| A 44-year-old man commencing treatment for tuberculosis | |
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| A 32-year-old man who absconds from directly observed therapy for tuberculosis | |
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| A 32-year-old woman with a skin rash and abnormal chest X-ray | |
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| A 68-year-old woman with worsening breathlessness on exertion | |
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| A 35-year-old man with chronic shortness of breath | |
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| An overweight 52-year-old man who snores | |
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| Self-assessment | |
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| MCQs | |
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| EMQs | |
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| SAQs | |
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| Answers | |
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| Index of cases by diagnosis | |
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| Index | |