Table of contents
Chapter 1. A Clinical Approach to Rare Lung Diseases

Ralph Panos, M.D.


Chapter 2. Clinical Trials for Rare Lung Diseases

Jeffrey Krischer, Ph.D.


Chapter 3. Idiopathic and Familial Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Jean M. Elwing, M.D., Gail Deutsch, M.D., William C. Nichols, Ph.D., and Timothy LeCras, Ph.D.,


Chapter 4. Lymphangioleiomyomatosis

Francis X. McCormack, M.D, and Elizabeth P. Henske, M.D., Ph.D.


Chapter 5. Autoimmune Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis

Bruce Trapnell, M.D., Koh Nakata, M.D., Ph.D., and Yoshikazu Inoue, M.D., Ph.D.


Chapter 6. Mutations in Surfactant Protein C and Interstitial Lung Disease

James P. Bridges, Ph. D. and Ralph Panos, M.D.


Chapter 7. Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia

Claire Shovlin, M.D and S. Paul Oh, Ph.D.


Chapter 8. Hermansky Pudlak Syndrome

Lisa Young, M.D. and Bill Gahl, M.D., Ph.D.


Chapter 9. Alpha One Antitrypsin Deficiency

Charlie Strange, M.D. and Sabrina Janciauskiene, Ph.D.

Chapter 10. The Marfan Syndrome

Amaresh Nath, M.D and Enid Neptune, M.D.


Chapter 11. Surfactant Deficiency Disorders SP-B and ABCA3

Larry Nogee, M.D.


Chapter 12. Pulmonary Capillary Hemangiomatosis

Edward D. Chan, M.D., Kathryn Chmura, B.A, and Andrew Sullivan, M.D.


Chapter 13. Goodpasture's Syndrome

Gangadar Taduri, M.D., D.M., Raghu Kalluri, Ph.D., and Ralph P. Panos, M.D.


Chapter 14. Primary Ciliary Diskinesia

Michael R. Knowles, M.D., Hilda Morillas, M.D., Margaret W. Leigh, M.D., Maimoona Zariwala, Ph.D.


Chapter 15. Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis

Koichi Hagiwara, MD, Takeshi Jokoh, M.D., Teruo Tachibana, MD

Chapter 16. Cystic Fibrosis

Andre Cantin, M.D.


Chapter 17. Pulmonary Langerhan's Cell Histiocytosis

Robert Vassallo, M.D.


Chapter 18. Sarcoidosis

Ralph Panos, M.D. and Andrew Fontenot, M.D.


Chapter 19. Scleroderma Lung Disease