Should lung biopsies be performed in patients with severe asthma?

Asthma, and severe asthma, in particular, is increasingly recognised as a heterogeneous disease. Identifying these different phenotypes of asthma and assigning patients to phenotype-specific treatments is one of the current conundrums in respiratory medicine. Any diagnostic procedure in severe asthm...

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Main Authors: Daniel Doberer, Humberto E. Trejo Bittar, Sally E. Wenzel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Respiratory Society 2015-09-01
Series:European Respiratory Review
Online Access:http://err.ersjournals.com/content/24/137/525.full