Associations in asthma between quantitative computed tomography and bronchial biopsy-derived airway remodelling

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Berair, Rachid ^a   Hartley, Ruth ^a   Mistry, Vijay ^a   Sheshadri, Ajay ^b   Gupta, Sumit ^a   Singapuri, Amisha ^a   Gonem, Sherif ^a   Marshall, Richard P ^c   Sousa, Ana R ^c   Shikotra, Aarti ^a   Kay, Richard ^d,e   Wardlaw, Andrew ^a   Bradding, Peter ^a   Siddiqui, Salman ^a   Castro, Mario ^b   Brightling, Christopher E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^d NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^e Medpace ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AIRWAY REMODELING; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENSITOMETRY; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STEP WISE MULTIPLE REGRESSION; VASCULARIZATION; BRONCHUS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; VITAL CAPACITY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AIRWAY REMODELING; ASTHMA; BRONCHI; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 85019122591     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01507-2016     Document Type: Article

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