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Inflammatory Asthma Phenotype Discrimination Using an Electronic Nose Breath Analyzer.
Journal of investigational allergology & clinical immunology - 1 Jan 2015
Plaza V, Crespo A, Giner J, Merino J L, Ramos-Barbón D, Mateus E F, Torrego A, Cosio B G, Agustí A, Sibila O
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Patients with persistent asthma have different inflammatory phenotypes. The electronic nose is a new technology capable of distinguishing volatile organic compound (VOC) breath-prints in exhaled breath. The aim of the study was to investigate the capacity of electronic nose breath-print analysis to discriminate between different inflammatory asthma phenotypes (eosinophilic, neutrophilic,...
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