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Biomarkers in the Management of Difficult Asthma.
Current topics in medicinal chemistry - 1 Jan 2016
Schleich Florence, Demarche Sophie, Louis Renaud
Abstract excerpt
Difficult asthma is a heterogeneous disease of the airways including various types of bronchial inflammation and various degrees of airway remodeling. Therapeutic response of severe asthmatics can be predicted by the use of biomarkers of Type2-high or Type2-low inflammation. Based on sputum cell analysis, four inflammatory phenotypes have been described. As induced sputum is timeconsuming and expensive technique,...
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