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/library/oar/handle/123456789/26975| Title: | Updates on the management of COPD |
| Authors: | Farrugia Jones, Cynthia |
| Keywords: | Lungs -- Diseases, Obstructive -- Treatment Lungs -- Diseases, Obstructive -- Prevention Emphysema, Pulmonary Bronchitis |
| Issue Date: | 2017 |
| Publisher: | Medical Portals Ltd. |
| Citation: | Farrugia Jones, C. (2017). Updates on the management of COPD. The Synapse : the Medical Professionals' Network, 16(5), 11-16. |
| Abstract: | Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease has long been defined by chronic bronchitis and emphysema, with patients being placed in one category or the other. This excluded the airflow obstruction which is predominant in COPD. Recent studies show different mechanisms of airflow obstruction: loss of support of the small airways in emphysema, chronic inflammation taking part in the smaller airways, and presence of mucus in the small airways. COPD has now a more flexible definition of preventable and treatable disease with airflow limitation that is not fully reversible and an inflammatory response to noxious particles. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/26975 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacM&SMed The Synapse, Volume 16, Issue 5 The Synapse, Volume 16, Issue 5 |
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