Chest CT scans show a ... illness of the small airways because of its fibrotic irreversible nature. For the clinician, the bronchiolar airway obliteration diseases can be divided into two major ...

Small airways disease affects a network of more than 10,000 ... Lin and his team collected data points at two intervals in the CT lung scans -- when the patient inhaled and when the patient ...

Environmental cadmium is associated with a higher risk of development of small airway diseases like COPD and Asthma, however, the mechanism by which this happens remains unclear. Surolia’s laboratory ...