Discussion Airway remodeling is a distinctive pathologic feature of asthma, and is thought to be the result of an aberrant reparative process associated with ongoing allergic inflammation. The histopathologic changes that occur within the airways of asthmatics include epithelial desquamation and regeneration, gobletcell hyperplasia, submucosal gland hypertrophy, subepithelial fibrosis or thickening of the basement membrane, inflammatory cell infiltration, hyperplasia and […]
Categories: Asthma
