Asthma and COPD
Subtitle: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Management
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: May 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 868
ISBN-13: 9780120790289
Subjects: Immunology; Respiratory medicine; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Diseases, Obstructive; Asthma; Respiratory Diseases; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Health/Fitness; Lungs; Health & Fitness; Diseases; Medical / Pharmacology
First sentence: Until recently, the presence or absence of reversibility was considered to be the key distinction between asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) - with reversible airflow obstruction the hallmark of asthma, and irreversible airflow obstruction the hallmark of COPD.