Structural Lung Disease and Clinical Phenotype in Bronchiectasis Patients: The EMBARC CT Study.
Angelina L P PietersTjeerd van der VeerJennifer J MeerburgEleni-Rosalina AndrinopoulouMenno M Vd EerdenPierluigi CietStefano AlibertiPierre-Regis BurgelMegan L CrichtonAmelia ShoemarkPieter C GoeminneMichal ShteinbergMichael R LoebingerCharles S HaworthFrancesco BlasiHarm Awm TiddensDaan CaudriJames D ChalmersPublished in: American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (2024)
Patients with bronchiectasis have highly heterogeneous type and extent of structural lung abnormalities. Strong relationships between radiological disease and clinical features suggest CT analysis may be a useful tool for clinical phenotyping.