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The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
ReviewVolume 12, Issue 11p901-914November 2024

Rethinking bronchiectasis as an inflammatory disease

Merete B Long, PhD
Affiliations
Division of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
a
Sanjay H Chotirmall, PhD
Affiliations
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
b,c
Michal Shteinberg, PhD
Affiliations
Pulmonology Institute and CF Center, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, The B Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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Prof James D Chalmers, PhD
Correspondence
Correspondence to: Prof James D Chalmers, Division of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Dundee, DD1 9SY, UK
Affiliations
Division of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
a j.chalmers@dundee.ac.uk
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Summary

Bronchiectasis is understood to be the result of a complex interaction between infection, impaired mucociliary clearance, inflammation, and lung damage. Current therapeutic approaches to bronchiectasis are heavily focused on management of infection along with enhancing mucus clearance. Long-term antibiotics have had limited success in clinical trials, suggesting a need to re-evaluate the concept of bronchiectasis as an infective disorder. We invoke the example of asthma, for which treatment paradigms shifted away from targeting smooth muscle constriction, towards permanently suppressing airway inflammation, reducing risk and ultimately inducing remission with precision anti-inflammatory treatments. In this Review, we argue that bronchiectasis is primarily a chronic inflammatory disease, requiring early identification of at-risk individuals, and we introduce a novel concept of disease activity with important implications for clinical practice and future research. A new generation of novel anti-inflammatory treatments are under development and repurposing of anti-inflammatory agents from other diseases could revolutionise patient care.

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