Unraveling the pathophysiology of the asthma-COPD overlap syndrome: Unsuspected mild centrilobular emphysema is responsible for loss of lung elastic recoil in never smokers with asthma with persistent expiratory airflow limitation

Chest

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 313-320

  Gelb, Arthur F ^a,b   Yamamoto, Alfred ^a   Verbeken, Eric K ^c   Nadel, Jay A ^d,e  

^a Lakewood Regional Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BECLOMETASONE; CATHEPSIN G; CORTICOSTEROID; FIBRONECTIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 8; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; SALBUTAMOL SULFATE;

AIRWAY CONDUCTANCE; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASTHMA; ASTHMA CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE OVERLAP SYNDROME; AUTOPSY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LUNG COMPLIANCE; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FUNCTION; PASSIVE SMOKING; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SINUSITIS; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY REMODELING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SMOKING; VITAL CAPACITY;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY REMODELING; ASTHMA; COHORT STUDIES; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; SMOKING; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 84939244162     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.14-2483     Document Type: Note

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