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Quantitative Chest Computed Tomography in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Assessing the Role of Emphysema Severity and its Correlation with Clinical Characteristics, Lung Function, and Plasma Levels of VEGF and IL-1β
2024-10-10
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Objective:</bold> This study aimed to evaluate the characteristics of emphysema in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) using quantitative computed tomography (QCT) and to investigate the relationship between the extent of emphysema, clinical phenotypes, lung function, and plasma concentrations of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) and Interleukin-1β (...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 58a0dbb8-e8bb-5501-be93-07577dd03a73
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- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5051887/v1
