Asthma and COPD
Subtitle: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Management
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: May 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 868
ISBN-13: 9780120790289
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.