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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Published in:International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 2021-01, Vol.16, p.1349-1352
Main Author: von Wichert, Peter
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asthma
Bronchial Diseases
Bronchitis
Cardiovascular disease
copd
Epidemiology
Health aspects
Humans
Medicine
Pathogenesis
Pathology
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - diagnosis
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - therapy
Terminology
terminology of diseases
understanding of diagnostic terms
Viral infections
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1178-2005
1176-9106
1178-2005
DOI:10.2147/COPD.S298210