The major sites of obstruction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are small airways (<2 mm in diameter). We wanted to determine whether there was a relationship between small-airway ...

Small airways disease was common in patients with persistent symptoms following COVID-19, independent of severity of initial infection, according to a single-center study published in Radiology.

To this end, a majority of infected individuals will remain asymptomatic, whereas others can experience life-threatening symptoms Study: Small Airways Disease is a Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV ...

Disease of small airways may be common to various chronic obstructive lung diseases. Because R p is normally so small, there may be considerable obstruction in peripheral airways that would affect ...

Disease of the small airways in the lungs is a potential long-lasting effect of COVID-19, according to a new study published in the journal Radiology. The study found that small airways disease ...

dCT imaging of patients with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), more commonly known as long COVID, revealed that small airways disease persisted months after infection, a prospective single ...

Disease of the small airways in the lungs is a potential long-lasting effect of COVID-19, according to a new study. The study found that small airways disease occurred independently of initial ...

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 ...

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 ...

More information: Josalyn L. Cho et al, Quantitative Chest CT Assessment of Small Airways Disease in Post-Acute SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Radiology (2022). DOI: 10.1148/radiol.212170 Journal ...