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How to Identify Causes and Predisposing Factors in Bronchiectasis

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Bronchiectasis

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Bronchiectasis is a clinical and radiological diagnosis defining a permanent dilation of the bronchi with associated chronic cough, daily sputum production and recurrent respiratory infections leading to an increased morbidity and impaired patients’ quality of life [1]. Both prevalence and incidence of bronchiectasis have not been defined yet, although recent literature reports an increase of hospitalisations due to this disease [2]. The few existing European data show a prevalence of bronchiectasis from 67 to 566 per 100,000, while prevalence in the USA has been estimated about 52 per 100,000 [3–6]. All these data have changed the earlier consideration of bronchiectasis as an orphan disease towards an increased awareness of this condition.

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  1. Andrea Gramegna and Francesco Amati contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Internal Medicine Department, Respiratory Unit and Cystic Fibrosis Adult Center, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

    Andrea Gramegna, Francesco Amati, Stefano Aliberti & Francesco Blasi

  2. Tayside Respiratory Research Group, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 9SY, UK

    James D. Chalmers

  3. Imperial College and Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK

    Stuart J. Elborn

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  1. College of Medicine, University of Dundee , Dundee, United Kingdom

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  2. Hospital Vall D’Hebron, Vall D’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) Respiratory Disease Department, Barcelona, Spain

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  3. Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan Internal Medicine Department, Respiratory Unit and Cystic Fibrosis Adult Center, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

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Gramegna, A., Amati, F., Chalmers, J.D., Elborn, S.J., Aliberti, S., Blasi, F. (2018). How to Identify Causes and Predisposing Factors in Bronchiectasis. In: Chalmers, J., Polverino, E., Aliberti, S. (eds) Bronchiectasis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61452-6_6

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