The propensity for mucus plug formation in fatal asthma is increased by airway narrowing

Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2026 Apr 16:aamag178. doi: 10.1093/ajrccm/aamag178. Online ahead of print.

Peter B Noble¹, Michael J Hackmann^{1

2}, Alvenia Cairncross^{1

3}, Francis H Y Green⁴, Alan L James^{3

5}, John G Elliot^{1

3}, Graham M Donovan⁶

¹ School of Human Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia.
² Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Computer Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia.
³ Department of Pulmonary Physiology and Sleep Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Western Australia, Australia.
⁴ Airway Inflammation Group, Snyder Institute of Chronic Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁵ Medical School, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia.
⁶ Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

No abstract available