Bronchial Diseases are Insufficiently Defined with the Term COPD

This paper discusses the basic thoughts behind the so-called diagnosis of COPD in relation to cause and course of the disease and questions the value of this functional defined terminology. Instead, the terminology should be based on morphology in the broadest sense including all methods suitable to...

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Autor principal: von Wichert, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8132574/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34025120
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S298210
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description This paper discusses the basic thoughts behind the so-called diagnosis of COPD in relation to cause and course of the disease and questions the value of this functional defined terminology. Instead, the terminology should be based on morphology in the broadest sense including all methods suitable to describe pathological processes to understand the cause of bronchial diseases. The diagnosis COPD is only helpful in relation to therapeutic measures.
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spelling pubmed-81325742021-05-20 Bronchial Diseases are Insufficiently Defined with the Term COPD von Wichert, Peter Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis Commentary This paper discusses the basic thoughts behind the so-called diagnosis of COPD in relation to cause and course of the disease and questions the value of this functional defined terminology. Instead, the terminology should be based on morphology in the broadest sense including all methods suitable to describe pathological processes to understand the cause of bronchial diseases. The diagnosis COPD is only helpful in relation to therapeutic measures. Dove 2021-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8132574/ /pubmed/34025120 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S298210 Text en © 2021 von Wichert. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
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Bronchial Diseases are Insufficiently Defined with the Term COPD
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title_full_unstemmed Bronchial Diseases are Insufficiently Defined with the Term COPD
title_short Bronchial Diseases are Insufficiently Defined with the Term COPD
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8132574/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34025120
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S298210
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