Asthma–COPD Overlap
A special issue of Medical Sciences (ISSN 2076-3271).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2020) | Viewed by 300
Special Issue Editors
Interests: prevention of COPD readmission; six-minute walk test in chronic lung disease patients
Interests: six-minute walk test in chronic lung disease patients continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for treatment of obstructive sleep apnea, as well as CPAP adherence
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Asthma is an inflammatory disease that affects the large and small airways with intermittent symptoms in the early disease and has a mechanism of bronchial hyperresponsiveness. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an irreversible inflammatory airway disease, one that affects the small airways in particular. Distinguishing between typical asthma and typical COPD is straightforward; however, when the symptoms overlap, then diagnosis and further treatment can be challenging. Hence, collectively, when you have a combination of clinical symptoms of reversible and irreversible airway disease, it is called asthma COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS), which is estimated to be present in 15% to 45% of the population with obstructive airway disease, and the prevalence increases with age. However, despite this presumed high prevalence, no significant review articles or prospective studies have been conducted to provide information on how to tackle the challenges of the conventional management of these patients.
This Special Issue will collect ideas on how to diagnose and treat ACOS. It is important to study the mechanisms of each disease with their role of CD4 and CD8 interplay which leads to the formation of overlapping disease.
Research articles about detailed manifestations of ACOS disease are welcome. This includes but is not limited to:
- Review articles which can summarize the plan of diagnosis and treatment of already published material;
- Original research as prospective or retrospective views to analyze the mechanism of interplay and pathogenesis of ACOS;
- Panel discussion and communications about ACOS.
Dr. Raghav Gupta
Dr. Joseph Roland D. Espiritu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Asthma
- COPD
- Airway disease
- Inflammation
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