Article
Phenotypes and disease characterization in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Toward the extinction of phenotypes?
Annals of the American Thoracic Society - 1 Dec 2013
Agustí Alvar
Abstract excerpt
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a complex, heterogeneous disease. The severity of airflow limitation, traditionally used to guide therapy in patients with COPD, does not describe this complexity properly. As a result, over the past few years there has been a great deal of interest in characterizing COPD more precisely and identifying homogeneous groups of patients who respond to specific...
Topics
- Bronchitis, Chronic
- Humans
- Lung
- Phenotype
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
- Pulmonary Emphysema