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Air trapping is associated with heterozygosity for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin mutations in patients with asthma
2020-04-30
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background</bold>: 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 AATD. The aim of the study is to evalua...
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- Literature Corpus work
- cb9563af-2a2a-5101-8073-e434853b6029
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-23377/v1
