It is high time to discard a cut-off of 0.70 in the diagnosis of COPD

JY Choi, CK Rhee - Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has traditionally been
diagnosed based on the criterion of an FEV1/FVC< 0.70. However, this definition has …

CT airway remodelling and chronic cough

H Abozid, M Kirby, N Nasir, S Hartl… - BMJ Open …, 2023 - bmjopenrespres.bmj.com
Rationale Structural airway changes related to chronic cough (CC) are described in the
literature, but so far reported data are rare and non-conclusive. Furthermore, they derive …

Assessment of Treatment Response in Patients With Severe Asthma Using Visual and Quantitative Analysis of Chest CT

HN Lee, J An, M Lee, HJ Hwang… - Korean Journal of …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective To evaluate the role of visual and quantitative chest CT parameters in assessing
treatment response in patients with severe asthma. Materials and Methods Korean …

Airway tapering in COPD

S Bodduluri, A Nakhmani… - European …, 2024 - publications.ersnet.org
Background Luminal narrowing is a hallmark feature of airway remodelling in COPD, but
current measures focus on airway wall remodelling. Quantification of the natural increase in …

Bronchodilator responsiveness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: prevalence, significance, and clinical implications

AN Aggarwal, R Agarwal - Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine - journals.lww.com
There is still no clear, clinically relevant threshold to define BDR. BDR is an unreliable
discriminator to differentiate asthma from COPD and is not consistently linked to any specific …

[引用][C] Advances in COPD imaging using CT and MRI: linkage with lung physiology and clinical outcomes

AF Elbehairy, H Marshall, JH Naish… - European …, 2024 - Eur Respiratory Soc