Blood Eosinophils and outcomes in severe hospitalized exacerbations of COPD

Background Patients with moderate exacerbations of COPD and the eosinophilic phenotype have better outcomes with prednisolone. Whether this outcome is similar in patients hospitalized with a severe exacerbation of COPD is unclear. We investigated the rate of recovery of eosinophilic and noneosinophi...

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Main Authors: Bafadhel, M, Greening, NJ, Harvey-Dunstan, TC, Williams, JE, Morgan, MD, Brightling, CE, Hussain, SF, Pavord, ID, Singh, SJ, Steiner, MC
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Elsevier 2016