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Preface
Respiratory Medicine: Lecture Notes was first published in 1975 by our predecessor and colleague, Dr Alistair Brewis, who sadly died in 2014. He was inspirational to generations of students and doctors. From its first edition, Respiratory Medicine: Lecture Notes was a classic textbook, opening the eyes of students to the special fascinations of the subject. Many were prompted to pursue a career in respiratory medicine. Subsequent editions mapped the developments in this very broad‐ranging specialty, dealing with diseases from cystic fibrosis to lung cancer, COPD to pneumonia, asthma to tuberculosis, sleep disorders to occupational lung diseases.
There have been truly remarkable advances in respiratory medicine over the last 7 years since the previous edition: immunotherapy for lung cancer, monoclonal antibodies for asthma, CFTR modulator therapy for cystic fibrosis and antifibrotic medications for pulmonary fibrosis. New challenges have arisen with a global pandemic of a novel coronavirus SARS‐CoV‐2.
As Respiratory Medicine: Lecture Notes moves towards its half‐century in this 10th edition, the text has been revised and expanded to provide a concise up‐to‐date summary of respiratory medicine for undergraduate students and junior doctors preparing for postgraduate examinations. A particular feature of respiratory medicine in recent years has been multidisciplinary teamwork, utilising skills from a variety of disciplines to provide the best care for patients with respiratory diseases. This book should be useful to colleagues such as physiotherapists, lung function physiologists and respiratory nurse specialists. The emphasis of the book has always been on practical information that is useful and relevant to everyday clinical medicine, and the 10th edition remains a patient‐based book to be read before and after visits to the wards and clinics where clinical medicine is learnt and practised. As Respiratory Medicine: Lecture Notes has developed over time, students have become teachers and continue to learn by teaching. Each successive generation adds to our understanding and builds on the knowledge of predecessors.
We remain grateful to our teachers and their teachers, and we pass on our evolving knowledge of respiratory medicine to our students and their students.
S.J. Bourke
G.P Burns
J.G. Macfarlane
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1 Anatomy and physiology of the lungs
The anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system are designed in such a way as to bring air from the atmosphere and blood from the circulation into close proximity across the alveolar capillary membrane. This facilitates the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the blood and the outside world.
A brief revision of clinically relevant anatomy
Bronchial tree and alveoli
The trachea has cartilaginous horseshoe‐shaped ‘rings’ supporting its anterior and lateral walls. The posterior wall is flaccid and bulges forward during coughing, for example. This results in narrowing of the lumen, which increases the shearing force from the moving air on the mucus lying on the tracheal walls.
The trachea divides into the right and left main bronchi at the level of the sternal angle (angle of Louis). The left main bronchus is longer than the right and leaves the trachea at a more abrupt angle. The right main bronchus is more directly in line with the trachea, so that inhaled material tends to enter the right lung more readily than the left.
The main bronchi divide into lobar bronchi (upper, middle and lower on the right; upper and lower on the left) and then segmental bronchi, as shown in Fig. 1.1. The position of the lungs in relation to external landmarks is shown in Fig. 1.2. Bronchi are airways with cartilage in their walls, and there are about 10 divisions of bronchi beyond the tracheal bifurcation. Smaller airways without cartilage in their walls are referred to as bronchioles. Respiratory bronchioles are peripheral bronchioles with alveoli in their walls. Bronchioles immediately proximal to alveoli are known as terminal bronchioles. In the bronchi, smooth muscle is arranged in a spiral fashion internal to the cartilaginous plates. The muscle coat becomes more complete distally as the cartilaginous plates become more fragmentary.
The epithelial lining is ciliated and includes goblet cells. The cilia beat with a whip‐like action, and waves of contraction pass in an organised fashion from cell to cell so that material trapped in the sticky mucus layer above the cilia is moved upwards and out of the lung. This ‘mucociliary escalator’ is an important part of the lung’s defences. Larger bronchi also have acinar mucus‐secreting glands in the submucosa; these are hypertrophied in chronic bronchitis.
Alveoli are about 0.1– 0.2 mm in diameter and are lined by a thin layer of cells, of which there are two types: type I pneumocytes have flattened processes that extend to cover most of the internal surface of the alveoli; type II pneumocytes are less numerous and contain lamellated structures, which are concerned with the production of surfactant (Fig. 1.3). There is a potential space between the alveolar cells and the capillary basement membrane, which is only apparent in disease states, when it may contain fluid,