A light at the end of the tunnel of inflammation in obstructive airway diseases? (editorial)

Title: A light at the end of the tunnel of inflammation in obstructive airway diseases? (editorial)
Creator: Gibson, Peter G.
Relation: Chest Vol. 134, Issue 3, p. 475-476
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1378/chest.08-1478
Publisher: American College of Chest Physicians
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
Description: Chronic and persistent airway inflammation is one of the main driving forces in the obstructive airway diseases. It is proving increasingly useful to classify the pattern of inflammation based on the dominant granulocyte present, and there is great potential to use markers of inflammation serially to monitor disease activity and assist in treatment selection and dose adjustment. In asthma, this approach is well developed, particularly for eosinophilic forms of the disease. In this issue of CHEST, Pallan et al start to bring some sense on how to bring a clinical approach to neutrophilic inflammation in asthma, particularly in the context of atypical infections.
Subject: asthma; exacerbations; obstructive airway diseases; inflammation
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/40413
Identifier: uon:4601
Identifier: ISSN:0012-3692
Language: eng
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