Journal article
How to Diagnose and Phenotype Asthma
Abstract
Asthma has been described as a chronic disease of the airways characterized by variable airflow obstruction, airway hyperresponsiveness, and airway inflammation. This review discusses the diagnosis and phenotyping of asthma, with a special emphasis on phenotyping based on the nature of cellular inflammation and radiological imaging and how this could be used to direct the treatment of asthma and, in the future, to apply specifically directed …
Authors
Nair P; Dasgupta A; Brightling CE; Chung KF
Journal
Clinics in Chest Medicine, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 445–457
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
September 2012
DOI
10.1016/j.ccm.2012.05.003
ISSN
0272-5231