These data suggest that small airway disease, as measured by physiological testing, is correlated with an increased risk of asthma symptoms and exacerbations. Reviewed by Ware Kuschner ...

These small airways are critical in the pathophysiology of various diseases and are often the initial sites of obstruction and inflammation in conditions such as bronchiolitis, asthma, obliterans ...

obliterans is an important respiratory illness of the small airways because of its fibrotic irreversible nature. For the clinician, the bronchiolar airway obliteration diseases can be divided into ...

Diseases that can affect these airways include: Your airways branch into tiny tubes (bronchioles) that end in clusters of air sacs called alveoli. These air sacs make up most of your lung tissue.

More than 50% of patients who did not respond to biologic treatment had small airways disease. Patients with severe asthma and small airways disease did not respond as well to omalizumab treatment ...

8 In the adjacent small airways ... The bottom panels list some of the constituents of mucus in health and in airway disease. The degree of cellular inflammation and biochemical constituents ...

In vivo platelet activation and related pathways may be linked to small airways disease and pulmonary vascular changes in smokers.

Environmental cadmium is associated with a higher risk of development of small airway diseases like COPD and Asthma, however, the mechanism by which this happens remains unclear. Surolia’s laboratory ...