There are lots of treatment options for genetic COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), a type of COPD caused by a deficiency of alpha-1 antitrypsin (alpha-1), a protein that helps protect the ...

Boosting levels of a deficient protein has clear survival benefits for people with the genetic condition alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD), according to new research led by RCSI University of ...

Professor Gerry McElvaney, Professor of Medicine, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and senior co-author of a new study, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical ...

Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, AATD, is an inherited disease affecting the lung, liver, and, rarely, skin. Alpha-1 antitrypsin, AAT, is a protease inhibitor of the proteolytic enzyme elastase.

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