Near-Fatal Asthma

By Mark D. Siegel, MD, FCCP

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Figure 1. Airway pathology in fatal asthma. Key findings include thickening of the basement membrane (thin arrow), a marked inflammatory infiltrate (dashed arrow), a disordered airway epithelium (thick arrow), and a large endobronchial mucus plug (asterisk). Courtesy of Drs. Geoffrey Chupp and Robert Homer, Yale University School of Medicine.

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