Article
Diagnosis, assessment, and phenotyping of COPD: beyond FEV₁.
International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - 1 Jan 2016
Lange Peter, Halpin David M, O'Donnell Denis E, MacNee William
Abstract excerpt
COPD is now widely recognized as a complex heterogeneous syndrome, having both pulmonary and extrapulmonary features. In clinical practice, the diagnosis of COPD is based on the presence of chronic airflow limitation, as assessed by post-bronchodilator spirometry. The severity of the airflow limi...
Topics
- Asthma
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Forced Expiratory Volume
- Humans
- Lung
- Phenotype
- Predictive Value of Tests
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
- Reproducibility of Results
- Respiratory Function Tests