DOI: 10.1055/s-00000075

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Issue 05 · Volume 31 · October 2010 DOI: 10.1055/s-002-21354 Impact of Aging on the Lung Keith C Meyer M.D. M.S.

PREFACE

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Meyer, Keith C: Impact of Aging on the Lung

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Miller, Martin R: Structural and Physiological Age-Associated Changes in Aging Lungs
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Taylor, Bryan J; Johnson, Bruce D: The Pulmonary Circulation and Exercise Responses in the Elderly
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Wang, Lei; Green, Francis H.Y.; Smiley-Jewell, Suzette M; Pinkerton, Kent E: Susceptibility of the Aging Lung to Environmental Injury
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Jadcherla, Sudarshan R; Hogan, Walter J; Shaker, Reza: Physiology and Pathophysiology of Glottic Reflexes and Pulmonary Aspiration: From Neonates to Adults
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Meyer, Keith C: The Role of Immunity and Inflammation in Lung Senescence and Susceptibility to Infection in the Elderly
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Pérez-Guzmán, Carlos; Vargas, Mario H: Mycobacterial Infections in the Elderly
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Mathur, Sameer K: Allergy and Asthma in the Elderly
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Hanania, Nicola A; Sharma, Gulshan; Sharafkhaneh, Amir: COPD in the Elderly Patient
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Selman, Moisés; Rojas, Mauricio; Mora, Ana L; Pardo, Annie: Aging and Interstitial Lung Diseases: Unraveling an Old Forgotten Player in the Pathogenesis of Lung Fibrosis
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Edwards, Bradley A; O'Driscoll, Denise M; Ali, Asad; Jordan, Amy S; Trinder, John; Malhotra, Atul: Aging and Sleep: Physiology and Pathophysiology
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Muir, Jean-François; Lamia, Bouchra; Molano, Carlos; Cuvelier, Antoine: Respiratory Failure in the Elderly Patient