D103 ALPHA 1-ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY: 50 YEARS OF PROGRESS: Improving Testing For Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Using The Pulmonary Function Laboratory

D103 ALPHA 1-ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY: 50 YEARS OF PROGRESS: Improving Testing For Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Using The Pulmonary Function Laboratory

Unfortunately, less than 10% of affected individuals with AATD have been diagnosed despite guidelines recommending testing of all patients with COPD or incompletely reversible airflow obstruction (AO). During that time, the PFL lab tested 76% of all at-risk patients tested in our center, with the ma...

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Veröffentlicht in:American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2017-01, Vol.195
Hauptverfasser: Luna Diaz, L V, Iupe, I, Zavala, B, Balestrini, K, Guerrero, A M, Schweitzer, M D, Holt, G, Mirsaeidi, M, Calderon, R, Campos, M
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Sprache:eng
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Asthma
Laboratories
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Zusammenfassung:Unfortunately, less than 10% of affected individuals with AATD have been diagnosed despite guidelines recommending testing of all patients with COPD or incompletely reversible airflow obstruction (AO). During that time, the PFL lab tested 76% of all at-risk patients tested in our center, with the majority (83.9%) of the tests confirmed to occur in subjects with COPD after medical chart review.
ISSN:1073-449X
1535-4970