Article
Small airways dysfunction is associated to Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency in patients with asthma
2019-11-27
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (AATD) is a hereditary genetic disorder involving lungs in adults, characterized by low serum concentration of the protein alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT). Several reports indicate that asthma is common in AATD patients, but there are only few data on respiratory function in asthmatic patients with intermediate AATD. The aim of the study is to evaluat...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 395353b4-043f-5704-8970-718d37cf0a6d
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.2.17783/v1
