Contents: 1. Introduction/S.K. Jindal.2. Applied Respiratory Physics/S.K. Jindal and V.K. Jindal.3. History and Physical Examination/Prahlad Rai Gupta. 4. Pulmonary Function Tests/A.N. Aggarwal. 5. Interpretation of Arterial Blood Gases and Acid–Base Abnormalities/Aditya Jindal. 6. Tuberculosis: Overview/Stuti Agarwal, Romica Latawa and Indu Verma. 7. Immunology and Pathogenesis/Madhur Kalyan, Krishna K Singh and Indu Verma. 8. Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Clinical Features and Diagnosis/S Kashyap and Malay Sarkar. 9. Molecular Diagnosis of Tuberculosis/Rama Murthy Sakamuri, Mamta Kalra, Indu Verma and Suman Laal. 10. Management of Tuberculosis/D. Behera. 11. Prevention of Tuberculosis/Rajesh N Solanki, Jaydeep Odhwani and Kumar Utsav. 12. Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis/AK Janmeja, PR Mohapatra and Deepak Aggarwal. 13. Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis/Surendra K Sharma and Dinkar Bhasin. 14. Treatment of Tuberculosis in Special Situations/Rajendra Prasad and Nikhil Gupta. 14. Treatment of Tuberculosis in Special Situations/Rajendra Prasad and Nikhil Gupta. 16. Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Diseases/P.S. Shankar and S.K. Jindal. 17. Community-acquired Pneumonia/Charles Feldman and Ronald Anderson. 18. Pulmonary Fungal Infections/Arunaloke Chakrabarti. 19. Nosocomial Pneumonia/Vishwanath Gella and S.K. Jindal. 20. Lung Abscess/C. Ravindran and Jyothi E. 21. Bronchiectasis and Cystic Fibrosis/David Honeybourne. 22. Anaerobic Bacterial Infections of the Lungs and the Pleura/Ashok Shah and Chandramani Panjabi. 23. Bronchial Asthma Epidemiology/S.K. Jindal. 24. Airway Inflammation and Remodeling/Ruby Pawankar, Shu Hashimoto, Miyuki Hayashi,Shingo Yamanishi and Manabu Nonaka. 25. Asthma Diagnosis/Liesel D’silva and Parameswaran Nair. 26. Control and Management of Stable Asthma/Sidney S. Braman and Gwen Skloot. 27. Acute Asthma Exacerbations/Aditya Jindal. 28. Allergen Desensitization/Vikram Jaggi. 9. Patient Education in Asthma/Bharat Bhushan Sharma and Virendra Singh. 30. Pharmacotherapy of Bronchial Asthma/Nusrat Shafiq and Samir Malhotra.... Key Features: • Presents concise, yet comprehensive information for day-to-day practice. • Abridged form of Textbook of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (2nd Edition). • Includes 101 chapters to covers clinical respiratory medicine, critical care, sleep medicine and respiratory perspectives. • It is reader-friendly with simple language. • Written by eminent authors from across the globe. • Useful for educators, pulmonologists, internists, intensivists, pediatricians, medical students and practitioners, who are treating patients with lung diseases.