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[Phenotypes of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease].
Terapevticheskii arkhiv - 1 Jan 2009
Aver'ianov A V, Chuchalin A G, Polivanova A E, Polivanov G E, Cherniak A V, Nekliudova G V, Naumenko Zh K
Abstract excerpt
AIM: To study characteristics of phenotypes of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) basing on the findings of modern clinical, functional and roentgenomorphological tests in the course of the disease. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Basing on the results of high performance computed tomography, 64 COPD patients aged 46-75 years (FEV1 51 +/- 24%) were divided into two groups: 53 patients with emphysematous phenotype...
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