title: [Asthma COPD Overlap Syndrome (ACOS): precision medicine or diagnostic dead end?].
abstract: Asthma and COPD are two distinct diseases but sometimes patient can show clinical features of asthma and COPD. For this group the term asthma-COPD-overlap syndrome (ACOS) has been created. However, the variability of defining criteria leads to a broad heterogeneity of patients assigned to this syndrome. Therefore, the introduction of the term ACOS is of limited value for a more individualized treatment of patients with obstructive airway disease.
authors: Christian
authors: C
authors: Taube
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D057285:Precision Medicine; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy