Distinguished from other bronchiolar diseases by its reversibility upon administration of a beta-agonist, FTP, name this disease of the resipiratory tract characterized by inflammation and plugging with mucus of bronchioles, whose best known symptoms are breathlessness, cough, and wheezing.
Histological features of this disease include characteristic Curschmann spirals, Charcot-Leydon [shar-co lai-don] crystals, and eosinophilic infiltration, while a major observation found in this disease is an increase in the Reid index. Treated alternatively by the Butekyo method, medication for this disease includes the resorcinols and the methylxanthines. It is rarely incited by aspirin, penicillin, toluene, and formaldehyde, but in the majority of cases of this disease, no specific precipitating antigen is identified. Distinguished from other bronchiolar diseases by its reversibility upon administration of a beta-agonist, FTP, name this disease of the resipiratory tract characterized by inflammation and plugging with mucus of bronchioles, whose best known symptoms are breathlessness, cough, and wheezing.
Histological features of this disease include characteristic Curschmann spirals, Charcot-Leydon [shar-co lai-don] crystals, and eosinophilic infiltration, while a major observation found in this disease is an increase in the Reid index.
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