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Particularities of COPD exacerbations in different phenotypes of the disease in Tunisia.
La Tunisie medicale - 1 Mar 2016
Zendah Ines, Ayed Khadija, Kwas Hamida, Khattab Amel, Ghédira Habib
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BACKGROUND: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is defined by a limitation of airflow. This disease is characterized by exacerbations that threaten the patient's life and worsens his prognosis. Moreover, COPD patients are different according to many parameters that define different phenotypes. Characteristics of exacerbations may depend on these phenotypes according to few recent studies. AIM: To determine the...
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