Chair(s): James D. Chalmers, Arzu Yorgancioglu
Session type: Symposium
Francesca Polverino
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Small airways and early origins of airway disease: pathobiological considerations
Francesca Polverino
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Chung-wai Chow
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Omar S. Usmani
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Session aims
to provide an update on recent research into the increasing importance of small airways diseases in patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); to describe new developments in the assessment of small airways diseases using physiological methods; to provide an update on evidence for the clinical impact of small airways diseases on patient-related outcomes; to highlight recent data regarding treatment targeted at small airways diseases and how this relates to clinical outcomes.