Publications by authors named "Fernando Medeiros Anselmo"

Introduction: Small airways are not evaluated with traditional pulmonary function tests. The aim of this study was to evaluate the small airways in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with a nitrogen washout test and to verify whether there is a difference between patients with COPD due to smoking and those with COPD due to alpha-1 antitrypsin mutation.

Methods: Sixteen patients with mutation in the gene and 45 patients with no mutation were included in this cross-sectional study.

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