Asthma Management

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Airway Remodeling
  • As the disease continues, patients can begin to have airway remodeling, meaning structural changes to the airway

  • Changes involve
    • sub-basement membrane
    • subepithelial fibrosis
    • airway smooth muscle hypertrophy and hyperplasia
    • blood vessel proliferation and dilation
    • mucous gland hyperplasia

http://www.news-medical.net/health/Asthma.aspx.  Accessed July 2013.

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