Management of patients with asthma COPD overlap (ACO) is clinically challenging due to
insufficient evidence of pathological changes in these patients. In this cross-sectional study …

Asthma COPD overlap (ACO) is a clinical term that describes patients with persistent airflow
limitation, and clinical/physiologic characteristics consistent with both asthma and chronic …

Background: Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are both
inflammatory disorders. Diagnosis of these diseases is based upon limitation of expiratory …

Background Although asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are two
distinct chronic airway inflammatory diseases, they often co-exist in a patient and the …

Both asthma and COPD are heterogeneous diseases identified by characteristic symptoms
and functional abnormalities, with airway obstruction common in both diseases. Asthma …

Overlap of asthma and COPD has attracted attention recently. We aimed to clarify
physiological and morphological differences of the airways between COPD and asthma …

ABSTRACT COPD is defined as airflow limitation that is not reversed by treatment. In
asthma, airflow limitation is not only reversible, but also inducible. This is called 'airway …

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are characterised by airflow
obstruction, airway remodelling (measurable structural change) and inflammation. The …

Background Asthma–chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) overlap (ACO) is a
clinical phenotype sharing features of asthma and COPD. Multidetector row computed …

The development of COPD features, such as an incomplete reversibility of airway
obstruction (IRAO), in smoking or non-smoking asthmatic patients, a condition often named …