Open AccessSmall airways, big challenge: measuring the unseen?
Author(s) -
Salman Siddiqui,
Omar Usmani
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
nature medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.536
H-Index - 547
eISSN - 1546-170X
pISSN - 1078-8956
DOI - 10.1038/nm.2981
Subject(s) - pulmonary disease , medicine , airway , biomarker , small airways , disease , copd , phenotype , lesion , pathophysiology , pathology , intensive care medicine , surgery , biology , gene , biochemistry
An imaging technique adapted to differentiate between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease phenotypes can identify small-airway pathophysiology, locate the disease and potentially track disease progression. This approach may be used as a biomarker to identify the small-airway lesion in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, at an individual level in the clinic (pages 1711-1715).
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