Treatable traits in bronchiectasis

The diagnostic label "bronchiectasis" describes the existence of localised and permanent airway dilation, but when used to describe a disease it includes a heterogeneous group of disorders that differ significantly in terms of aetiological, clinical, radiological, functional and microbial features \[1]. Using cluster analysis, some previous studies have attempted to identify distinct "clinical phenotypes" in patients with bronchiectasis [2–4\]...