Blood eosinophils as a biomarker in alpha 1 anti trypsin deficiency

Safia Zaffarullah (London, United Kingdom), Safia Zaffarullah, Alice M. Turner, Robert Stockley, Diane Griffiths, Ross Edgar

Source: International Congress 2015 – Monitoring and phenotyping COPD
Session: Monitoring and phenotyping COPD
Session type: Poster Discussion
Number: 3351
Disease area: Airway diseases

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Safia Zaffarullah (London, United Kingdom), Safia Zaffarullah, Alice M. Turner, Robert Stockley, Diane Griffiths, Ross Edgar. Blood eosinophils as a biomarker in alpha 1 anti trypsin deficiency. Eur Respir J 2015; 46: Suppl. 59, 3351

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