Obstructive Airway Diseases

Obstructive Airway Diseases | Internal Medicine

How it begins

Comprehensive study of diseases that cause airflow limitation. It covers molecular pathophysiology, clinical and spirometric foundations, inflammatory pathogenesis, updated classification (GOLD 2024, GINA 2024), pharmacological management and advanced therapeutic strategies including biologics, with continuous clinical correlation.

What it covers

1. General Pathophysiology of Airflow Obstruction
2. · Physiopathological Mechanisms of Obstruction
3. · Functional Consequences of Obstruction
4. Classification of Obstructive Diseases
5. Definition, Epidemiology and Risk Factors
6. · Global and Regional Epidemiology
7. · Risk Factors
8. Pathogenesis and Histopathology of COPD
9. · Abnormal Inflammatory Response
10. · Comparative Histopathology: Chronic Bronchitis vs. Emphysema
11. GOLD 2024 Classification and Clinical Phenotypes
12. · GOLD Spirometric Classification (Severity)
13. · ABCD Classification (Symptoms + Exacerbations)
14. · Clinical Phenotypes of COPD (GesEPOC 2022)
15. Clinical Manifestations and Differential Diagnosis
16. · Clinical Picture of COPD
17. · Differential Diagnosis of COPD
18. Chronic Complications of COPD
19. · Pulmonary Hypertension and Cor Pulmonale
20. · Chronic Respiratory Failure (CRF)
21. · Other Complications
22. Acute Exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD)
23. · Etiology and Classification
24. · Blood gas analysis in AECOPD: Warning Signs
25. Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Treatment of Stable COPD
26. · Pharmacological Treatment — Bronchodilators
27. · Non-Pharmacological Treatment
28. Treatment of Acute Exacerbation of COPD
29. Asthma: Definition, Epidemiology and Phenotypes
30. · Asthma Phenotypes
31. Immunopathology of Asthma
32. · Inflammatory Cascade Type 2 (T2-high)
33. Diagnosis and Classification of Asthma Severity
34. · GINA 2024 Diagnostic Criteria
35. · Asthma Control (GINA) vs. Severity
36. Stepped Treatment of Asthma (GINA 2024)
37. Acute Asthmatic Crisis and Near-Fatal Asthma
38. · Asthmatic Attack Severity Classification (GINA / BTS)
39. · Management of Severe Acute Asthmatic Attack
40. Biologicals in Severe Asthma (Step 5)
41. Bronchiectasis
42. · Etiology
43. · Diagnosis
44. Bronchiolitis and Small Airway Diseases
45. · Evaluation of the Small Airway
46. Obstruction of the Central Airway
47. · Functional Diagnosis: Flow-Volume Curve
48. Asthma-COPD Overlap Syndrome (ACO) and Integrative Algorithms
49. · Integrative Diagnostic Approach in Chronic Obstruction
50. · Table Differential COPD vs. Asthma vs. ACO