A case-based guide with expert commentary this case based title deals with contemporary clinical scenarios in respiratory medicine. Each chapter is based around a real-life case, and interspersed with the most up-to-date evidence, management strategies, guidelines and controversies in management.

• 1: Saima Alam and C Corrigan: Allergy


• 2: Anand Shah and A Menzies-Gow: Severe asthma


• 3: Simon Brill and J Brown: Bacterial lung infection


• 4: James Brown and N Navani: Non-surgical management of early stage lung cancer


• 5: Marcus Pittman and A Williams: Central sleep apnoea


• 6: Anant Patel, Amina Jaffer and John Hurst: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease


• 7: Georgia Tunnicliffe and M Wise: Pulmonary fungal infections


• 8: Dami Collier and R Miller: HIV-related lung disease


• 9: Justin Garner and D Treacher: Intensive care unit and ventilation


• 10: Clare Ross and Athol Wells: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis


• 11: David Walder and P Reading: Narcolepsy


• 12: Michelle Ramsay and M Polkey: Non-invasive ventilation and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease


• 13: Jo Feary, P Cullinan and J Szram: Occupational lung disease


• 14: Janet Stowell and R Breen: Pulmonary disease caused by non-tuberculous mycobacteria


• 15: Rory McDermott and Craig Davidson: Oxygen


• 16: Lucy Schomberg and N Maskell: Pleural effusion


• 17: Sophie Vergnaud and J Wort: Pulmonary vasculature


• 18: Swapna Mandal and J Steier: Sleep-disordered breathing in the obese


• 19: Chloe Bloom and S Donnelly: Pulmonary sarcoidosis


• 20: Mark Haylock Almond and M Griffiths: Swine 'flu in pregnancy


• 21: Jessica Barrett and M Carby: Transplant


• 22: Georgina Russell and O Min Kon: Tuberculosis

Lucy Schomberg studied medicine at St George's Hospital Medicine School in South West London. She completed her registrar training in South East London and recently became a Locum Consultant in Respiratory Medicine in Frimley Park Hospital. Her special interests include pleural disease and interstitial lung disease.
Elizabeth Sage read Physiological Sciences at Oxford University prior to studying medicine at both Oxford and St George's Hospital Medical School. She is currently a research registrar at University College London and completed her PhD in Cellular Therapies at University College London. Her specialist interests include thoracic malignancies and lung cancer and the development of novel cellular therapies.
Nicholas Hart is Clinical and Academic Director of the Fox Lane Respiratory Unit at St Thomas' Hospital, London. He is also a Reader in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine at the Department of Asthma, Allergy and Respiratory Science, King's College London.