Asthmatics with high levels of serum surfactant protein D have more severe disease

Eur Respir J. 2016 Jun;47(6):1864-7. doi: 10.1183/13993003.02142-2015. Epub 2016 Mar 17.

Authors

Alida Benfante¹, Salvatore Battaglia¹, Stefania Principe¹, Chiara Di Mitri¹, Alessandra Paternò¹, Mario Spatafora¹, Nicola Scichilone²

Affiliations

¹ Dipartimento di Biomedicina e Medicina Specialistica, Sezione di Pneumologia, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
² Dipartimento di Biomedicina e Medicina Specialistica, Sezione di Pneumologia, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy nicola.scichilone@unipa.it.

PMID: 26989101
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02142-2015

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Anti-Asthmatic Agents / therapeutic use*
Asthma / blood*
Asthma / diagnosis
Asthma / drug therapy
Asthma / physiopathology
Biomarkers / blood
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein D / blood*
Reproducibility of Results
Respiratory Function Tests / methods
Severity of Illness Index
Statistics as Topic

Substances

Anti-Asthmatic Agents
Biomarkers
Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein D