List of authors . 5
Foreword . .7
List of abbreviations . 8
Section 1. Pulmonology
Chapter 1. Pneumonia (Igor M. Skrypnyk, Svitlana I. Sorokina, Oleksandr F. Gopko) . 13
Community-acquired pneumonia . 18
Hospital-acquired pneumonia . .22
Health-care-associated pneumonia . .22
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) . .22
Chapter 2. Infectious destructive lung diseases (Igor M. Skrypnyk, Svitlana I. Sorokina, Oleksandr F. Gopko) . .25
Lung abscess . 25
Pulmonary gangrene . 29
Bronchiectasis . .32
Pleurisy (Igor M. Skrypnyk, Svitlana I. Sorokina, Oleksandr F. Gopko) . 37
Chapter 3. Respiratory failure (Igor M. Skrypnyk, Svitlana I. Sorokina)..46
Chapter 4. Asthma (Valentyna K. Sierkova) . 56
Chapter 5. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Olena I. Ostapchuk) . 71
Section 2. Gastroenterology
Chapter 6. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (Anatoliy S. Svintsitskyy) . 83
Chapter 7. Functional dyspepsia (Igor A. Svintsitskyi) . 92
Chapter 8. Gastritis (Igor A. Svintsitskyi) . 101
Acute gastritis . 101
Chronic gastritis . 105
Rare forms of chronic gastritis..113
Chapter 9. Peptic ulcer disease (Olena V. Solomko) . .115
Chapter 10. Celiac disease (Igor A. Svintsitskyi) . 126
Chapter 11. Crohn’s disease (Anatoliy S. Svintsitskyy) . 134
Chapter 12. Ulcerative colitis (Olena V. Solomko) . 143
Chapter 13. Irritable bowel syndrome (Anatoliy S. Svintsitskyy) . 155
Chapter 14. Dysbiosis (Anatoliy S. Svintsitskyy) . 163
Chapter 15. Biliary tract dyskinesia (Anatoliy S. Svintsitskyy) . 171
Chapter 16. Cholelithiasis (Anatoliy S. Svintsitskyy) . 178
Chapter 17. Chronic acalculous cholecystitis (Anatoliy S. Svintsitskyy) . 190
Chapter 18. Chronic hepatitis (Tetiana B. Yevdokymova) . 197
Autoimmune hepatitis . 197
Hepatitis C . 199
Chronic hepatitis B . 202
Chronic hepatitis C . 206
Chapter 19. Liver cirrhosis (Kostyantyn O. Prosolenko, Volodymyr I. Molodan) . 211
Chapter 20. Chronic pancreatitis (Anatoliy S. Svintsitskyy) . 224
Section 3. Nephrology
Chapter 21. Glomerulonephritis (Olena I. Ostapchuk) . 238
Chapter 22. Pyelonephritis (Ivan P. Katerenchuk) . 247
Acute pyelonephritis . 247
Chronic pyelonephritis . .250
Chapter 23. Tubular-interstitial nephritis (Ivan P. Katerenchuk) . 253
Chapter 24. Renal amyloidosis (Ivan P. Katerenchuk)..257
Chapter 25. Chronic kidney disease (Natalia M. Zhelezniakova, Oleg Ya. Babak) . .261
Chapter 26. Acutе renal faіlure (Olga Ye. Zaichenko) . 275
Section 4. Diseases of the internal organs in countries with hot climates
Chapter 27. Endomyocardial disease (Valentyna K. Sierkova) . 283
Endomyocardial fibrosis . 283
Loffler endocarditis . 287
Chapter 28. Restrictive cardiomyopathy (Valentyna K. Sierkova) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Chapter 29. Chagas disease (Oksana L. Poberezhets) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Chapter 30. Tropical sprue (Iryna I. Zelena) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Chapter 31. Amebiasis (Pavlo M. Pyskovatskyi) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Chapter 32. Heliotrope hepatitis (Olga G. Gaponova, Anastasiia O. Andrieieva) . . . . . . 319
Chapter 33. Kwashiorkor (Olga V. Dzekan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Chapter 34. Thalassemia (Olga M. Bereziuk) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Chapter 35. Sickle-cell disease (Olga M. Bereziuk) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Chapter 36. Snake bites (Pavlo M. Pyskovatskyi) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Chapter 37. Bites by spiders and arachnids (Olga M. Bereziuk) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Referrences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356