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Blurred lines. Eosinophilic COPD: ACOS or COPD phenotype?
Revista portuguesa de pneumologia - 1 Jan 2000
Loureiro C C
Abstract excerpt
Because asthma and COPD are both inflammatory chronic obstructive airway diseases, there are several clinical expressions which can cause confusion, such as: eosinophilic asthma with fixed obstruction, which is a risk factor and might progress to COPD; eosinophilic COPD; COPD with partial reversible obstruction with no asthmatic component and also eosinophilic asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS). While at the two...
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