Bronchiectasis in India: results from the European Multicentre Bronchiectasis Audit and Research Collaboration (EMBARC) and Respiratory Research Network of India Registry

• Main Authors: Raja Dhar, MD (Author), Sheetu Singh, MD (Author), Deepak Talwar, MD (Author), Murali Mohan, ProfMD (Author), Surya Kant Tripathi, MD (Author), Rajesh Swarnakar, DNB (Author), Sonali Trivedi, DNB (Author), Srinivas Rajagopala, ProfMD (Author), George D'Souza, MD (Author), Arjun Padmanabhan, MD (Author), Archana Baburao, DNB (Author), Padukudru Anand Mahesh, MD (Author), Babaji Ghewade, ProfMD (Author), Girija Nair, ProfMD (Author), Aditya Jindal, DM (Author), Gayathri Devi H Jayadevappa, ProfMD (Author), Honney Sawhney, MD (Author), Kripesh Ranjan Sarmah, MD (Author), Kaushik Saha, MD (Author), Suresh Anantharaj, DNB (Author), Arjun Khanna, DM (Author), Samir Gami, MD (Author), Arti Shah, DNB (Author), Arpan Shah, DNB (Author), Naveen Dutt, MD (Author), Himanshu Garg, MD (Author), Sunil Vyas, DNB (Author), Kummannoor Venugopal, MD (Author), Rajendra Prasad, ProfMD (Author), Naveed M Aleemuddin, ProfMD (Author), Saurabh Karmakar, MD (Author), Virendra Singh, MD (Author), Surinder Kumar Jindal, MD (Author), Shubham Sharma, MBBS (Author), Deepak Prajapat, MD (Author), Sagar Chandrashekaria, DNB (Author), Melissa J McDonnell, MSc (Author), Aditi Mishra, MBBS (Author), Robert Rutherford, MD (Author), Ramanathan Palaniappan Ramanathan, ProfMD (Author), Pieter C Goeminne, PhD (Author), Preethi Vasudev, DTCD (Author), Katerina Dimakou, PhD (Author), Megan L Crichton, MFM (Author), Biiligere Siddaiah Jayaraj, DM (Author), Rahul Kungwani, MD (Author), Akanksha Das, MD (Author), Mehneet Sawhney, MBBS (Author), Eva Polverino, PhD (Author), Antoni Torres, ProfMD (Author), Nayan Sri Gulecha, MBBS (Author), Michal Shteinberg, PhD (Author), Anthony De Soyza, ProfPhD (Author), Anshul Mangala, MD (Author), Palak Shah, MD (Author), Nishant Kumar Chauhan, MD (Author), Nikita Jajodia, MPTH (Author), Ashutosh Singhal, MD (Author), Sakshi Batra, MD (Author), Ashfaq Hasan, ProfMD (Author), Sneha Limaye, MBBS (Author), Sundeep Salvi, MD (Author), Stefano Aliberti, MD (Author), James D Chalmers, ProfPhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: Bronchiectasis is a common but neglected chronic lung disease. Most epidemiological data are limited to cohorts from Europe and the USA, with few data from low-income and middle-income countries. We therefore aimed to describe the characteristics, severity of disease, microbiolo...