Assessment of airway inflammation using sputum, BAL, and endobronchial biopsies in current and ex-smokers with established COPD | Zendy

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Assessment of airway inflammation using sputum, BAL, and endobronchial biopsies in current and ex-smokers with established COPD

Author(s) -

David W. Reid

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

international journal of copd

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394

H-Index - 67

eISSN - 1178-2005

pISSN - 1176-9106

DOI - 10.2147/copd.s11343

Subject(s) - copd , medicine , sputum , bronchoalveolar lavage , airway , lung , inflammation , immunology , pulmonary function testing , pathology , surgery , tuberculosis

Smoking effects on physiological and gross pathology in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are relatively well described. However, there is little known in COPD about the detailed interrelationships between lung function and inflammatory profiles in different airway compartments from the same individual and whether airway inflammation in these different compartments differs in ex- and current smokers with established COPD.

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