Airways and Vascular Remodelling in Asthma and Cardiovascular Disease
Subtitle: Implications for Therapeutic Intervention
Contributors: Clive Page (Editor); Judith Black (Editor)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: November 10, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780125435406
Subjects: Cardiovascular medicine; Respiratory medicine; Asthma; Cardiovascular Diseases; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Cardiology; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Medical / Psychiatry / Psychopharmacology
First sentence: On histopathological examination, damage and shedding of airway surface epithelium is prominent, both in fatal asthma (Figs. 1A and 1B) and in biopsy specimens taken during rigid and flexible fibreoptic bronchoscopy of patients with stable ongoing asthma (Figs. 1C and 1D).