Practical Guide to the Identification and Diagnosis of Asthma-COPD Overlap (ACO).

We describe how to recognise and diagnose ACO based on a recently proposed Spanish algorithm and by the analysis of three clinical cases of patients with COPD. The diagnosis of ACO is based on the diagnosis of COPD (chronic airflow obstruction in an adult with significant smoking exposure), in addition to a current diagnosis of asthma and/or signficant eosinophilia. PMID: 30789039 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: COPD Source Type: research