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Monitoring central and peripheral airway inflammation in asthma
Holz1, R A Jörres, H Magnussen
1Krankenhaus Grosshansdorf, Zentrum für Pneumologie und Thoraxchirurgie, Grosshansdorf, Germany.
Respiratory Medicine
|September 26, 2000
Abstract:
Invasive methods involving bronchoscopy allow identification of the site of airway inflammation, although within the peripheral airways further distinctions are difficult. The method of induced sputum refers only to the central airways, and the analysis of exhaled NO to the airways as a whole. Therefore there is still a need for more refined tools to asses airway inflammation.