Taking Small Airways in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease to TASC

Maor Sauler¹, Tillie-Louise Hackett^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Yale School of Medicine New Haven, Connecticut.
² Centre for Heart and Lung Innovation St. Paul's Hospital Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Editorial

Maor Sauler et al. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2023.

. 2023 May 1;207(9):1114-1115.

doi: 10.1164/rccm.202302-0295ED.

Maor Sauler¹, Tillie-Louise Hackett^{2

3}

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Yale School of Medicine New Haven, Connecticut.
² Centre for Heart and Lung Innovation St. Paul's Hospital Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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A Unique Cellular Organization of Human Distal Airways and Its Disarray in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
Rustam S, Hu Y, Mahjour SB, Rendeiro AF, Ravichandran H, Urso A, D'Ovidio F, Martinez FJ, Altorki NK, Richmond B, Polosukhin V, Kropski JA, Blackwell TS, Randell SH, Elemento O, Shaykhiev R. Rustam S, et al. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2023 May 1;207(9):1171-1182. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202207-1384OC. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2023. PMID: 36796082 Free PMC article.

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