A substitute for "small airway disease"?

A substitute for "small airway disease"?

Are oral appliances a substitute for nasal positive airway pressure?

lthough positive airway pressure (PAP) devices have become the mainstay of treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea, not all patients can or will use PAP on a nightly basis. Many patients find taking a bulky PAP unit on business or vacation trips a burden. In this issue of Thorax Smith and Stradling attempt to show that a simple non-adjustable oral appliance may be used in place of PAP on a short...

Small Airway Disease and Equine Respiratory Health

The focus of this article is lower airway disease and its relationship to poor air quality. We will take a journey through the horse’s lungs and examine their various challenges. There have been several exciting developments recently which have changed our understanding of and approaches to dealing with respiratory problems in horses. On the broader front, there is a clear emergence in veterina...

Small Airway Disease in Rheumatoid Arthritis*

Variety of pulmonary lesions are thought to be associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). These lesions traditionally have included pleurisy with or without effusion, Caplan's syndrome, pulmonary rheumatoid nodules, diffuse interstitial fibrosis, and pulmonary arteritis and hypertension. But little attention has been paid to the airways in RA. Recently, several reports have suggested an associa...

Small Airway Disease in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Small airway disease (SAD) has been recognized for many years as a central feature of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Histopathology studies have shown that the narrowing and destruction of small airways in COPD combined with inflammatory cell infiltration in the submucosa increases the severity of the disease. SAD is present in the early stages of COPD and becomes more widespread...