Mayo Clinic Case Review for Pulmonary and Critical Care Boards [Paperback]

Mayo Clinic Case Review for Pulmonary and Critical Care Boardspresents selected cases identified by faculty and fellows at the Mayo Clinic Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Wednesday Morning Conference. This text is designed to be the optimal resource for board exam preparation in pulmonary and critical care medicine.Mayo Clinic Case Review for Pulmonary and Critical Care Boardsis based on cases presented by faculty and fellows at the Mayo Clinic Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Wednesday Morning Case Conference, a weekly conference where interesting cases are presented in a guess the diagnosis format. The presenter leads the audience through the patient's clinical course highlighting clinically important facts and pearls in a question-and-answer format. The presentation concludes with take-home points relevant to clinical practice.Mayo Clinic is a tertiary-care referral medical center, which gives them the opportunity to see rare diseases or rare presentations of common diseases that don't present as frequently in other medical centers.Mayo Clinic Case Review for Pulmonary and Critical Care Boardsis designed to be the optimal resource for board exam preparation in pulmonary and critical care medicine.Sections:? Section I: Obstructive Lung Disease? Section II: Critical Care Medicine? Section III: Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease? Section IV: Sleep Medicine, Neuromuscular and Skeletal? Section V: Infections? Section VI: Neoplasia? Section VII: Pleural Diseases? Section VIII: Interventional Pulmonology? Section IX: Transplantation? Section X: Vascular Diseases? Section XI: Occupational and Environmental DiseasesSection IObstructive Lung DiseaseCase 1 A 45-Year-Old Man with Chronic Cough and Dyspnea on ExertionCase 2 A 59-Year-Old Woman with Episodic DyspneaCase 3 A 77-Year-Old Man with Chronic Cough and Recurrent PneumoniaCase 4 A 63-Year-Old Woman with Recurrent Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary DiseaseCase 5 A 28-Yearl³§