The authors of this article from the July 2024 issue of the European Respiratory Review would like to correct an error in figure 1. In the original figure 1a, the markers indicating mild/moderate exacerbation and severe exacerbation/hospitalisation were inadvertently swapped in relation to the magnitude of lung function decline shown in the schematic representation. The figure has been corrected by inverting these markers so that: 1) mild/moderate exacerbations correspond to the smaller declines in lung function; and 2) severe exacerbations/hospitalisation correspond to the more pronounced declines.
FIGURE 1.
Disease decline and exacerbations in the natural history of bronchiectasis. a) Trajectory of lung function over time in bronchiectasis. The decline in lung function is associated with the occurrence of both mild/moderate and severe exacerbations. b) Oscillation between stable states and exacerbations over time, the influence of triggers and the impact of protective factors and interventions on maintaining overall lung health and raising the threshold for exacerbations.
The corrected figure is shown below.
The article has been corrected and republished online.