Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with chronic inflammation
affecting predominantly the lung parenchyma and peripheral airways that results in largely …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major global health problem that is
poorly treated by current therapies as it has proved difficult to treat the underlying …

Abstract The Spanish COPD Guidelines (GesEPOC) were first published in 2012, and since
then have undergone a series of updates incorporating new evidence on the diagnosis and …

Patients with asthma–chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap syndrome (ACOS)
have been largely excluded from pivotal therapeutic trials and, as a result, its treatment …

COPD is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. In some patients with COPD,
eosinophils contribute to inflammation that promotes airway obstruction; approximately a …

Asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS) or asthma-COPD overlap captures the subset of
patients with airways disease who have features of both asthma and chronic obstructive …

Resumen La Guía Española de la Enfermedad Pulmonar Obstructiva Crónica (GesEPOC)
se publicó por primera vez en 2012 y desde entonces ha experimentado una serie de …

Following a proposal by the Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery
(SEPAR), sponsor of the Spanish COPD Guidelines (GesEPOC) and the Spanish …

It is now widely recognized that asthma and COPD can coexist as asthma–COPD overlap
(ACO), but the preliminary attempts at providing universal guidelines for the diagnosis of …

Background Asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS) has been described and
acknowledged as a distinct clinical entity; however, its characteristics in daily clinical …