Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and bronchiectasis can overlap
and share pathologic features, such as small airway disease (SAD). Whether the presence …

COPD and asthma have different risk factors and pathogenesis, but they share a
pathophysiologic hallmark characterized by small airways disease. Although difficult to …

Small airway disease in chronic obstructive pulmonary diseas... : Current Opinion in Pulmonary
Medicine Small airway disease in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: insights and …

CT scan imaging provides high-resolution images of the lungs in patients with chronic
respiratory diseases. Extensive research over the last several decades has focused on …

Small‐scale cilia‐like devices that can manipulate fluids in narrow spaces have great
potential in microfluidics, biomechanics, biomedical engineering, and other applications …

Stereology is the method of choice for the quantitative assessment of biological objects in
microscopy. It takes into account the fact that, in traditional microscopy such as conventional …

Rationale: Emerging data demonstrate that the smallest conducting airways, terminal
bronchioles, are the early site of tissue destruction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease …

Rationale: Although centrilobular emphysema (CLE) and paraseptal emphysema (PSE) are
commonly identified on multidetector computed tomography (MDCT), little is known about …

Parametric response mapping (PRM) is a novel computed tomography (CT) technology that
has shown potential for assessment of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) after …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic airway inflammatory disease
characterized by incomplete reversible airflow limitation. The diagnosis of COPD is mainly …