Landmark study confirms ability of non-invasive imaging technique to identify early signs of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), an ...

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 ...

Explore a complete breakdown of lung diseases by affected lung regions, including airways, alveoli, pleura, and more. Learn ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maarten van den Berge, MD, PhD, from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and colleagues reviewed the clinical relevance of small airway disease and its implications for the treatment ...

Identifying small airway disease in its earliest stages, when it is most treatable, could potentially lead to new drug therapies for those with COPD, researchers say.