28th August 2020

A 35-year-old man presents back to his GP a month after being diagnosed with asthma

A 35-year-old man presents back to his GP a month after being diagnosed with asthma and prescribed a short-acting beta-2-agonist and an inhaled corticosteroid. He continues to feel breathless on exertion and have a productive cough. He thinks that the inhalers have made no difference to his symptoms. Apart from the progressive breathlessness over the past two years he has no past medical history. He is an ex-smoker and has not smoked in 5 years. His mother died with advanced liver disease at 60 years old. What disease should be suspected in this man?

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